Welcome, Mike. I'm from the DFW area and I'm leading the planning for the TX MR gathering. Saturday, August 23 -- probably in Austin or near there.
I also own a Kindle. In May, my sister bought a Kindle and we put it on the same account with my Kindle so we could share books. Today, I ordered another Kindle for her daughter. Seems that the daughter kept taking the Kindle when her Mom was at work and then was reluctant to turn it over because she was in the middle of a good book! I recently bought a Sony PRS 505; I'm going to use it along with Kovid's
calibre program. That should allow me to fairly compare the two readers.
We're glad you've joined us here at MobileRead. Hang around and tell us all about the kinds of books you like to read, what you're buying from Amazon, etc. And, since you were impressed with the WhisperNet function for delivery of books from Amazon, take a gander at the
MobileRead MobiPocket Download Guide. Copy it into your Kindle and then you can use the links in it to download any of the books from this site directly to the Kindle.