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I can't afford it now, but I'm not joining the "it's not worth it" chorus. If I could afford it, I'd be sorely tempted. Ergonomics is one of the reasons I read on a smartphone so much more than on my kindle. The redistribution of weight here towards the reading hand seems like it could make a real difference, and easily detachable/re-attachable case reduces the cost of battery management that might otherwise entail.
The one thing that would make this price an outright slam dunk would be the ability to tune the LED color. I have an AMOLED smartphone and can choose, with great precision, actually, the color of the foreground or background while reading in any app, even those with no support for such changes. At night I mostly read with red and black, though sometimes green and black. I avoid blue/white light, and it seems to be luck of the draw just how harsh/cool a Kindle's lighting will be.
As to the poll and Jason's over-excitement about it, the results would look pretty good for Amazon if they were representative of all kindle users. It's not like Amazon has stopped selling their other models. This is a Lexus, not a Corolla.
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