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Believe it or not, I do buy books and use the local library even while owning and using a Kindle. I'm still saying that the value of having the Kindle Keyboard now, for me, is worth more than any increased benefit from waiting a couple of months for one of the newly announced models instead.
BTW, I also subscribe to a few print magazines, and I also borrow reading material from friends, and I also read content on the web. None of these are mutually exclusive.
A couple of my own personal "value added" factors for liking having a Kindle in hand now: (1) Some of my new book purchases will end up in my eReader instead of my storage unit; (2) I travel internationally, and I hate it when I'm almost done with one book and haven't started the next, so end up carrying two books in my carry-on, plus it's easy for me to check my e-mail from some foreign airport with 3G; and (3) a couple of months from now, Barnes & Noble will probably be announcing their next round of updates or price cuts, and one has to pull the trigger at some point.
Having said all this, I'm certainly not arguing that people should not wait until the new Amazon devices are shipping. I can easily imagine a number of scenarios where it would be better to wait, for those or some other manufacturer's eReaders. The OP asked for input, and I shared my perspective--one I wouldn't characterize as either "I couldn't read anything if I didn't have a Kindle now" or "I couldn't survive until then without a Kindle."
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