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echoleaf, I'm not going to try to talk you OUT of a Kindle, necessarily, but I can explain to you why I don't have one. I too look at the selection in the Amazon store and drool - until I realize that for some unknown reason, most of the books I want from Amazon yet can't find anywhere else are in Topaz format. If I can't format shift and archive my purchases, well, I'm not going to purchase. I don't know if this is important to you or not, but it certainly is to me. I do not trust Amazon or anyone else to have my books available ten years down the road in a format I can still read then.
I bought an EZ Reader - the number of formats it supports was just too good to pass up. In practice, the thing is built like a tank (I've dropped it, sat on it, and it's constantly exposed to cat fur and it runs like a top), it's easy to use, and it's customizable with the right firmware. It IS annoying when I can't purchase a book I want, though, and that's one problem you won't have with the Kindle.
Just my .02 though it probably didn't help much with a decision....*grin*.
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