My friend, Ken Moss, wrote an excellent review of the pluses and minuses of the Kindle. I added a comment from my experience living in a multi-Kindle household.

Kindle's currently take up to 6 weeks from the time you placed your order (people receiving them today, ordered them around Feb 1).

Sounds like the Christmas backlog is soon to be cleared, and Amazon expects to begin shipping the same day as they are ordered.

Quoted: Amazon.com's CEO says the company is finally ramping up production of its electronic book reader as customers continue to face long delays in receiving it. Read this blog post by David Carnoy on News Blog.

Kindle is supposed to run for a week w/o a charge.

Quoted: Customer Service says that the battery should last one week if the wireless is turned off and 2 days if the wireless is kept on. If yours does not last that long, please call Customer Service, 866-321-8851. Mine only lasts a short day, so Amazon said it is defective and they are replacing it.

I've been using the new Amazon Kindle for a couple of days now. I actually love it. Comfortable to hold, feels solid, and the display is beautiful. This is also a great gift for someone WITHOUT a computer who loves to read - you can purchase books directly on the Kindle, with no need to ever hook up to a computer. Books are delivered within 60 seconds from the Kindle store.

And new releases are generally only $10, compared to $15-$20 for new hardback releases.

P.S. If you're going to get one - please click the Buy from Amazon button below - your purchase will help support Faves.com!

Quoted: Amazon.com: Kindle: Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device: Kindle Store

Deb just got her Kindle last night. I think the Kindle is GREAT. Yes, it is easy to accidentally hit the right-hand Next-Page button when holding a Kindle. But I hold it at the bottom when reading so it's not a very bad problem - just a minor annoyance.

Features I like:
- Display is GORGEOUS! High resolution and awesome contrast. For print - better than an LCD display.
- I don't think it looks cheap at all. The device feels light weight, but solid.
- Interface is simple an intuitive.
- You can bookmark, annotate, or "clip" whole pages to save markers, or your thoughts. Your clippings file can be transfered to a computer (via USB only, I think).
- Downloading content (without a PC) to a Kindle is fast and frictionless.

Kindle comes with a Web Browser (in the experimental section) - I've not seen any developer information on the functionality of the Kindle browser (though it DOES have javascript support). I wonder if there will be a market for Kindle-optimized or Kindle-specific web sites (as their have been for the iPhone).

Excellent review of Kindle and comparison to Sony's Reader.

Quoted: Amazon.com unveiled its Kindle e-book reader last week with a PR extravaganza that might impress even Steve Jobs. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos brandished his first hardware product on Charlie Rose and the cover of Newsweek, and secured testimonials from such

A cheaper digital reader. A computer is needed to download books. Is it a better DEVICE than a Kindle? But the whole process of finding, buying, and downloading books is much more tedious.

20,000 titles available on Sony store (compared to 90,000 for Kindle).

Home page on Amazon is a letter (oddly - loaded as a graphic image instead of text). The first paragraph sounds like a J Peterman (sp) catalog:

Quoted: I love slipping into a comfortable chair for a long read - as I relax into the chair, I also relax into the author's words, stories, and ideas. The physical book is so elegant that the artifact itself disappears into the background. The paper, glue, ink, and stitching that make up the book vanish, and what remains is the author's world.