I love the popcorn icon. :-)
I don't consider myself a cult member, but I have gone out there and made a few corrective comments when I saw misinformation about the Kindle being posted. Since I'm not even sure I will buy a Kindle (but I like them, I do... but I have no money and anyway I should wait and see how they do in the long run; never be the first kid on the block to buy anything), an attack on the Kindle is not realistically an attack on the core of my self image.
It just makes me mad to see people who don't even bother to read the product description all the way to the end before they start badmouthing something.
Though honestly, I guess I wouldn't care as much if it was, say, a videogame for playing football.
The Kindle just seems like a magic book to me, and that seems very cool. Yes, I think it would be good if publishers decided to let Amazon sell their books without DRM; yes, I think it would be good if Amazon took the Baen route and sold in all formats to all comers; yes, I think it would be good if the Kindle supported epub natively; yes, I notice that many people have trouble with the page turn buttons, and that white may tend to look grubby after a while, and that Sprint doesn't always cover all the areas they say they cover, and I agree these are all legitimate issues, and I'm okay with people bringing them up.
But seeing people claim that Amazon charges you to put your own content on the Kindle, or that browsing costs 10 cents a click, or that Kindle "locks you into Amazon" just makes me mad. There's enough real issues to think about without having to wade through fake ones.
