[Snorkledorf]

I have to agree with you on the lack of a shelf view. The cover thumbnail shown on each book's item details page is perfectly readable and rather pretty, so the idea that the e-ink screen isn't up to the task is a red herring. Having a beautiful array of covers on every version of Kindle software except the one on the actual Kindle, is very frustrating in my opinion. (A lot of the books that Amazon sells have strange non-cover cover art for some reason too, but that's another problem itself.)

Before the Kindle OS 2.5 update last June we didn't even have the bare-bones collections feature that we have now, just a single endless list of books. So we are in a rather better position than before. It's just still not a very satisfying one yet, is all. But we can still hope for v3!

I still consider my K3 to be the best ebook reader out there, except for this software limitation (and its inability to show image-based PDFs/scanned books very cleanly, though arguably that might be a hardware limitation). It's just that there are clear places where it could be improved.

When I wrote to Amazon with a fairly thought-out list of improvements I'd like to see, they graciously replied and thanked me for it, so along with the room for improvement, there is also hope. Their hearts seem to be in the right place.