[StrictTime]

The article is wrong about the Kindle. The iPad will have little effect on Kindle sales because it is so cheap, the battery lasts for weeks, it is light and works in more environments like outdoors/sunlight where the iPad is useless and too expensive to take to the beach.

I have a Kindle and I hate it. The books are WAY too expensive. It only does one thing (you can read books on it---WOW!!), but does not do it better than a real book. It is the most worthless device I own. I can't wait for an iPad....

[TChris]

I have a Kindle and I hate it. The books are WAY too expensive. It only does one thing (you can read books on it---WOW!!), but does not do it better than a real book. It is the most worthless device I own. I can't wait for an iPad....

Really?

You're the first person I've ever found who hates the Kindle.

Really, the very first.

Are you sure you didn't have unrealistic expectations? After all, the Kindle is for just one thing. It never pretended to be for more than reading. It does that very well.

Not better than a book? Really? How about 3,000 books? It's quite a bit smaller.

$10 for brand new titles is hardly "WAY too expensive".

I think you're making it up. Just like the "I'm a life-long Republican, but I'm voting for the Democrat!" folks.

The Kindle does what it was built for better than anything else. Don't buy a toaster and complain that it makes terrible milkshakes.

[microgood]

I have a Kindle and I hate it. The books are WAY too expensive. It only does one thing (you can read books on it---WOW!!), but does not do it better than a real book. It is the most worthless device I own. I can't wait for an iPad....

My wife has one and loves it. The reason I love it is that I have over 10,000 books in my garage because my wife is an avid reader of romantic novels. She buys about 40 books per month and with the Kindle she saves a lot over buying the books at the store plus I do not have mountains of them in the garage. When she fills this one up I will buy her another. She takes it everywhere she goes.

The real problem is what to do with all the books we already have.