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Nice analyses and commentaries. I too am fascinated by the Kindle's wireless potential, but I'm put off by the tight binding between the Kindle and the Amazon.com Kindle store.
I just bought a 505--my first reader--and I think it's an amazing piece of kit, but there are definitely things I know I'd do on the Kindle. I would definitely have one or two newspapers or magazines "delivered" to the device. This seems somewhat possible on the Sony reader. I'm using Caliber to grab some web feeds, but so far it is not ideal. RSS is a wonderful thing, but it doesn't really deliver a proper reading experience. In practice, I find RSS strangely disappointing. It's possible to syndicate well, but most sites don't. CNN only provides like half a sentence per headline while Engadget spams you with a giant picture and the whole article--almost completely unformatted. I can't even think of any sites that strike a pleasant balance. It might not really be possible given the limits of the RSS spec.
It would be great to see another news format that is designed for news fetching onto screens, but I'm sure news providers are already leery enough about RSS due to its limited advertising options. It would be hard to expect them to jump up and support some kind of specification that gave us more newspaper-like yet free-flowing summary formats.
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