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I find it interesting how all over the place critics/skeptics of an E-Text reading device are. "No backlight?! I want to read in bed!" Yes, but reading with a backlight is ultimately uncomfortable and mayhaps a bit damaging to optic nerves, and other sensitive built-in equipment. "It will never replace the smell and feel of a book." Um, that's why there's no backlight....books don't have backlights. Every time I visit my wife's very small house and the very large bookcase I made, I think of two things 1. How cool would it be to have the info/data in all that paper in a digital format, and 2. Man! am I a lousy carpenter.
For my two cents, I most likely will not buy a reader for a while, but I want one. Reading _Last of the Mohicans_ on my Treo 650 is nice when I'm ....um...indisposed...but I'd much rather take my pick of 20 books the size of my dog-eared copy of _On the Road_. Anybody know why there's no e-text version of that book? Or am I simpleton who has no idea how to use google? And just like the bag phone became the palm Treo, and the big silvery boombox morphed into the iPod, someday, we'll all collect our readers, chock-a-block with RSS Feeds, and shuffle the kids off with their permission slips and homework on their iLiads
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