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The constant 'of course if you read ebooks on an LCD screen your retinas will instantly melt' and 'but e-ink is great [for the 3 hours a year] when you'll be reading outside at the beach!' are ridiculous and give me a bad taste for the Kindle and its advertising and the Amazon-supported bloggers who spend more time attacking the ipad's death-ray glare than in praising the Kindle ("Here's a photo of me using the reflection off the ipad to fry ants on a sidewalk and to start a campfire"). I've never seen a post on here that says 'how can you read on an e-ink device, without the ability to play Angry Birds?' Ah well, I guess it's just this year's version of the old tedious Nook/Kindle arguments ("You can't get library books on the Kindle!"..."Yeah, but with free 3G I can check my email anywhere [after only 23 laborious clicks and toggles]!")
BTW, there's a good full-page cartoon in the Feb 14/21 "New Yorker" about a man surrounded by ereader enthusiasts at a party...it starts out with a guy bragging about how he can read his Kindle at a beach with no glare.
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