[GlenBarrington]

Keyboards are fine for multipurpose devices, but I don't see why a dedicated ereader device would need one. I never even had a keyboard for any of my Palm devices. Grafitti worked just fine once you learned how to use it.

Well after thinking about it, maybe students and people who might otherwise do research would want some sort of annotation capability. But I can't believe that the majority of recreational readers would need that sort of capability.