Very funny - and very cool. You can buy on eBay if you want it!

The mechanical Turk-based Q&A service for Kindle users has been discontinued. Amazon is now promoting Askville.com.

Amazon needs to hire a better designer!

I'm looking forward to reading Sarah's book on Web 2.0 companies. Strangely, the Kindle version is MORE EXPENSIVE than the hardback? How can that be?

Hardback: $17
Kindle: $20

If the book were a "best seller" - it would sell for $10 on Kindle. But I don't see how Amazon justifies selling the Kindle version for more than the hardback price.

Sarah is rumored to be planning a book tour - hopefully coming to Seattle as well.

Quoted: Amazon.com: Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0: Sarah Lacy: Books

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.

Amazon is now supporting an "experimental" PDF converter to Kindle format.

You can send directly to you Kindle via attachment at:

<name>@kindle.com

(this costs $0.10)

or, have the converted file emailed to your PC (for download to Kindle - e.g., when you are not getting radio reception, or are too cheap to pay the 10 cents) at:

<name>@free.kindle.com

(The converted file will be sent to your registered Amazon email address).

Quoted: Mobipocket.com sells electronic books, or ebooks, for all PDA and Smartphones (and for your PC): Read them on your Windows Mobile Blackberry Palm Symbian ( Nokia Series 60 1st 2nd 3rd edition, UIQ 2, UIQ 3) or Pocket-PC .

Mobi-Pocket files can be created from PDF's and then downloaded to the Kindle.

This article was written before Amazon started supporting (experimentally) PDF file conversion for the Kindle. Anyway, there are some advantages of doing the conversion yourself rather than using Amazon's email-conversion service.

The making of a Kindle cake!