Jim Henderson wrote:
> Already does.  

Unsurprising! :-)

> I found it easy to get used to fairly quickly myself.  

Yep, could be. But the touch-screen where you weren't actually touching the 
thing you were interested in threw me.

Or, as my brother said, "I got an iPad, because it has a touch screen."  "My 
  Kindle doesn't have a touch-screen, which is why my wife's fingerprints 
are all over the screen."

> Another *huge* 
> advantage is that many e-books can be viewed in their entirety if you go 
> to a B&N physical store - for up to an hour a day. 

That's a pretty slick marketing move.

> And free wireless at 
> places with AT&T wifi (if you don't have the 3G version, which I don't) 
> is pretty cool.  Like Kindle, with the 3G option, you don't have to pay 
> anything extra for access (the device just costs $50 more, and I have 
> wifi pretty much everywhere I go these days).

It was helpful on my trip to germany. The hotel wanted like $100/week for 
wifi, but I found out the Kindle will do 3G web browsing for free, so for 
the couple of "arrived safely" sorts of emails I wanted to send, it worked 
out with webmail just fine.  (My phone isn't GSM, ya see.)

> I do wish the USB cable was longer - I'm using an extension with mine.  

I bought a second cable to leave plugged into my computer all the time, 
running under the desk and all that. Happily, it's at least a standard USB 
cable.

> also wish the USB port wasn't on the bottom of the device.

I haven't been bothered by that, but then I don't really read with it 
plugged in.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    Quoth the raven:
        Need S'Mores!

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