The blogosphere is ablaze with talk about the Kindle.
(Sorry, couldn't resist writing that.)
Pattern Recognition has lots of good info and analysis on the Kindle, including the reveal that you cannot re-sell the books you buy for it, and that Amazon tracks information related to the content on your device and your use of it. Yikes!
I think I'll put my $399 toward an iPhone, and keep those regular ol', dependable, very 1.0, paper books in my collection instead. They seem to be working for me.
And for all of the people you might loan those books to, which is another thing you can't do with the Kindle.
Kevin wrote:
I'm not so sure about that. The Kindle includes DRM. Libraries should convince Amazon to use that to "loan" a book to a Kindle wirelessly and let them "expire" via the DRM or be renewed (the "expire" time gets extended on the DRM'ed copy) based on a loan period. I think this has been suggested before, but the fact that DRM is included in the Kindle might just make it possible. This was how the Napster service "loaned" you songs for a semester.