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The Kindle still looks pretty ugly to me... it'd be nice to have the keyboard and the wireless, but my PRS-500 just LOOKS better - and I'm thinking is more comfortable to hold for extended periods. Metal over plastic any day of the week.
That said, I'm hoping the Kindle will do these things for the Reader:
- increase pressure to add features
- increase sales in the long run since the Sony Reader has, IMO, a sleeker design I think many people would opt for, given a choice.
- lower prices on ebooks at Connect. DRM books are loaners - eventually they'll be useless.
The edges I give the Kindle at this second are:
- better distribution for tech-types. I think early adopters are more likely to be shopping at amazon.com than at their local Borders... I could very easily be wrong here, that's just a gut.
- lower prices on new books
- people sometimes buy products based on features just because they're there, not because they're useful. In the software industry you often add features to products just to be able to say you have them on an RFP. I still wish I could search text on the reader, but I have to admit - so far I've just been reading and adding the occasional bookmark, and have never once felt the need to annotate.
- periodicals. being on the road and able to just download & read the latest NYT without having to find a hotspot and sync from my laptop would be awesome. Too bad the Kindle is just ugly and looks more like a calculator or pocket PC than a reading tablet.
I used to think adding wireless to the PRS would make it bulkier... then I bought my iPod Touch ... *ahem* Sony?
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