I hear you! Last year this time or before there was all kinds of buzz about new eBook readers that would be released in 2010. Some are actually still shown in the MR list of readers, and yet many of them have still to be released. In my case I kept waiting for a decent/affordable Windows 7 tablet, but I finally gave up on that idea for now. Then I hoped that Apple would release a 7" iPad. But as soon as the iPad 2 was introduced I decided to wait no more for devices that might never exist and also chose an iPad 1 at the clearance price savings. Now that I have it I'm actually glad I bought it as the 9.7" screen has worked out really well. I thought I really wanted a 7" screen like my nookcolor, but after comparing the two devices I think 9.7" is much better for my specific needs. I briefly considered getting the iPad 2, but there are already a lot of accessories for the iPad 1 and the iPad 2 would not have had very many available for some time. Plus I really didn't see any great benefit for the improvements made to the iPad 2, so I immediately went to Best Buy and grabbed one of the last iPad 1s they had left.