[libstripper]

This is too much at $400 a pop. However, for anyone like me who's just bout been driven out of the house by the Book-of-the-Month Club, the History Book Club, and the Conservative Book Club it has great promise, especially if the books can be downloaded to CD/DVD for later reading and storage, which ought to be possible with appropriate copyright protection. With the books costing $9.95 apiece, you're getting them for a little less than half of th cost of an ordinary hard cover book, and with no shipping and handling. It should also be really great for college students, who have to buy hundreds of dollars worth of books each semester and then have to lug them around. Scholars who need access to great mases of data will also find these hugely useful, since they'll be able to access massive libraries with a few touches of their fingers.

This being a relatively simple device, I look for its price to drop to no more than $50.00 in the next couple of years, just as the prices of DVD players dropped from a similar level.

If you want a tour of the Kindle, go to the Amazon.com website.

[reformed_democrat]

I've been reading iBooks for years on my iPac. Project Gutenberg has free downloads of the classics.

I never go to my doctor's office or the DMV without it.

[BunnySlippers]

Mossberg’s column in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday slammed it. It has good shopping interface but is not a good reading device.

I’m sure the review is on the WSJ website.

[BunnySlippers]

BTW, here’s the link:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119629309068607131.html

And there are more articles in the WSJ about it as well.

[SunkenCiv]

Unlike with computers, one can take this for on-the-can reading. ;’)