As a staunch bibliophile, I loved the idea of a dedicated e-reader. I love the physical feel of a book and I am also a book collector, so I will never stop buying physical books altogether. However, I love the convience of the Kindle and having a book available at all times. I will not leave the house without my Kindle. If I am not currently enjoying what I am reading I can then open another book on my Kindle or turn on the wireless and browse for another book to purchas and read. I also own an iphone and love the convience of reading a Kindle book on my iphone too. There is also the added convience of keeping the book you are reading on the iphone synched with the same one on the Kindle so that you can go back and forth to each device and pick up where you left off. There are two things I don't like about the Kindle: one is how it handles PDF files. I have to read a lot of medical and scientific papers. It is convient to send them to my Kindle account and have them converted to the Kindle format but these papers have a lot of tables and graphs that don't get converted well. The second thing is that I don't like the synthesized voices in the text-to-speech of the Kindle. I think it is a great idea but the sound of the voice is like nails on a blackboard to me and I just can not listen for any significant length of time. I feel that the technology is out there that these two aspects of the Kindle can be greatly improved.

Overall, it is great idea that I give two thumbs up!