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Well, if it can confort you nate, there is one thing I found beautiful on the Kindle, if you look at the back closely there is jumble of alphabet charaters flying all over the surface; cute.
Asides from the design and the eternal... DRM criticism, there is a lot to be liked about that Kindle. Ergonomy is quite good, I love the button layout and that right side slider looks promising. Connectivity is also great.
As you say, other than visuals from pictures, nothing can be analysed other than trying it.
As for Bob's thread it was aimed at ebook popularity in particular, not necessarily the Kindle itself but Amazon's maintaining a closed loop system like some actual readers themselves. Perhaps Bob was envisionning Amazon to be a saviour of some sorts with the clout to free the ebook. Note that he says nothing of the periodicals availability nor the blogging posssibilities which in themselves are purpose enough to warrant aquisition of Kindle well certainly for me.
I'll say it. Even though I hate the appearance of Kindle, I would buy it and will when Telus offers the service in Canada.
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