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Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic
First, the Kindle will indeed have some kind of online functionality for direct e-book purchase (the word is EV-DO cellular data).
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This is an improvement over the Sony Reader in that it is not tied to a Windows PC.
I am in two minds about the keyboard. If you want decent on-line capability (even if just for buying books) and search/dictionary capability then a keyboard is the way to go. On the other hand, 99.999% of the time on the device will be spent reading, when the keyboard is irrelevent.
It appears that Amazon has thought outside the box on what an e-book reader should be. They may have got it all wrong, but lets at least get some hands on time before declaring it (brain) dead.