That, and the transparent fact that the keyboard is for providing input to hundreds of dialog boxes. Everything from the search field on the Kinde Store, to searchng your books, to taking notes... even logging ino the device.
A Kindle is *slightly* more complicated than a handheld solitaire machine. It needs a keyboard...
That being said, as repeatedly mentioned, calibre has a very nice editor, where editors belong -- on the desktop.
