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My only gripes:
1. Position of the page forward/back buttons are too low. You need to balance the book on the low end and constantly fight gravity in order to be right next to the buttons. If the Forward button was around where the Back button currently is, it would be perfect. Frankly, on a design level, this is a real shocker. Maybe it's because they think everyone holds books with two hands?
2. Lame lame lame organizational tools. They give you tons of storage space but woe betide unto you should you want to actually use that memory and organize a few hundred books. The 'Collections' approach is the lowest level brute force approach to organizational tags, and add to that the *only* interface to this is on the device itself. Open up the API and allow someone to use proper tags and let you setup as many as possible on a computer or in a browser, where typing is fast.
Having sounded like I hate my Kindle, couldn't be farther from the truth! I absolutely love it. It's my second e-reader, after a Sony PRS-600, and the improvement is tangible. It's a great device, thus the aggressive sounding criticisms - so much is done correctly, the things that are off grate all the more!
DT
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