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Alisa said:
"I believe Amazon has promised that Wikipedia search would remain free but they have made it quite clear that access to the rest of the internet is "experimental" and can go away at any moment. Like Harry, I have no doubt that would happen quite quickly if people started doing P2P."
I hope Amazon is not located in People's Republic of China (yet!) where you can really limit access to many domains/proxies/anonymizers etc. I don't believe that that "Whispernet" or whatever has physical capabilities to limit "outside" browsing by Wikipedia only, and say, charge for or outright block access to, say, Google, or Mp3.com, or Craigslist, or any proxy of my choosing.
Some p2p interaction within Kindle/other ereaders communities, to support some swap meets or such, would be IMHO much lesser evil in terms of bandwith wasting than the inevitable mp3/mp4 streaming.
In that sense, I can even understand the logic to go with the weird (some say "ugly") Kindle 1.0 design: if it doesn't look like oversized iPod/other MP3 player there might be less motives to hack it into this direction.
I can withdraw the desirability of 9...9.7" OLEDs for Kindles 2.0, or 3.0: 170...200 dpi 65000 colors 6" Kindle hingeable to another one, and to one's laptop display is just fine, heh.
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