I am not a "early adopter", at least I don't think I am. But I don't fight technology. If it can help me, I use it. If not, I leave it alone. I love to read, and I love books. I bought the Kindle with an eye on buying French and German books for downloading eventually, but until the publishers in these countries come on board, or should I say, get their act together, there are plenty of books in English available to satisfy just about every interest. And I am really impressed! I bought it just before Christmas, and took it along on vacation to Thailand. I was able to buy books right there, on the beach!! And reading was not a problem, even in the bright sunshine. I need glasses to read these days, so being able to adjust the font size is definitively a plus. I read quite a bit, probably more than I would have normally, because I took the thing with me everywhere. There was quite a bit of interest from people around me, on the plane, or at the local Starbucks. Contrary to most of my friends, I don't write in my books. It's anathema to me! So having now a way of annotating the books electronically is really interesting. The one drawback so far is remembering what page I was on, if I inadvertently loose it (it happened a couple of times). Otherwise, when you close and reopen Kindle, you are right back to the last page you read. All in all, this is probably one of the best investments I've ever made! Let's just hope now I don't go broke downloading everything in sight!!

-- Patrick