We went to a friend's house for New Years and I eagerly took my new Christmas present, a Kindle2, to show them as they are members of our book club. Let me state first that I am a lifelong true lover and collector of books and I am fortunate to have the space for a huge dedicated home library. Nothing will "replace" paper books but the Kindle serves to enhance reading time by making it so easy to carry and read several books. As I pulled out my Kindle, my friend laughed as she pulled out her Sony Reader! Our husbands congratulated themselves on buying such great gifts this year, "great minds think alike", etc. That is where the fun stopped, however. My friend had had hours of time with Sony tech support trying to get the Reader set up on her iMac with frustrating results. Our sons each had to read "Omnivore's Dilemma" for an honors biology class so they thought it would be cool if they each used their mom's new Kindle and Reader. The book was $8.43 on Kindle and was downloaded instantly. It cost $16.00 on the Reader, required computer syncing and they never were able to get it to work. Comparing the two side by side was almost embarrassing as the Kindle was so superior, especially with the pricing, capacity, ease of reading the page, and the ability to have the books instantly. I told my husband that I was so glad he had gotten me the Kindle and he said he had done some research first and said the advantages of the Kindle outweighed the few areas that the Reader excelled in. Anyway, my friend is still frustrated and unhappy and now jealous of my Kindle! Not sure what she is going to do, she doesn't like to talk about it. Get the Kindle!