It’s an irony – hey, you can’t be as productive (of words) as you appear to be without some of them coming back to bite you.

You, of course, closed by concluding that Amazon must know that the REAL money is in the content they’re bear-hugging…. and you scoffed at the possibility that they’d have more than one reader.

Well, I submit that not only were you wrong, but every time people fail to complete analogies that grow out of Apple : Amazon :: ipod : Kindle , they should put 2 bits in the “how dumb was that” jar.

Why the nano? Weren’t they cannibalizing their sales? … This is one of the MANY, many reasons why Mr. Jobs makes the big bucks. His instincts – I’m sure his staff, market research, etc. help, too – are rock solid…. Anyhow, with Amazon expected to introduce a textbook reader tomorrow (May 6), bigger in size and MAYBE more viable for newspapers, … methinks YOU should be thinking – WHAT’S NEXT?

I don’t think they will lack challenges and rewards if they relieve 10 year olds of 20-pound backpacks and college students of 2x per year $500 expenses – granted, the latter will still pony up some fraction of that for their e-books – but it’s easy to see that magazines are in the cross-hairs.

Can anyone believe that Amazon can’t/won’t find a way to incorporate color (vs. the current black white only)? … Yes, there’s a secular decline in newspaper reading (along with every other content category except texts and tweets, it seems), but some of us HAVE to read and many of us WANT to read, and if there’s one model even less viable than newspapers, it’s bloggers who give away their talent year in and year out…. Although thanks for doing so, because it sure gave me something to react to!

I’m not an early adopter. I got my first iPod about two years ago. But I immediately wanted a Kindle when I heard about it. Kindle has all the features I want — long battery life, ease of use, no need to hook up to a computer, the ability to carry many books with me, lightweight, and new books at half the price of hardbacks. These are features that avid readers will focus on.

With a Kindle, I’ll be able to read a 500-page book one-handed as I’m on a treadmill. With the purchase of a quality waterproof bag, I can read it in the bathtub if I want. I’ll be able to read while brushing my teeth or nuking a meal. Try that with a netbook.

The rest of you can tap away on your iPhones and such. I don’t want what I’m reading to buzz, ring or vibrate. And I don’t want the screen to be the size of a Post-It. I don’t plan to give up my roomful of books. But I expect to get plenty of use from my Kindle 2.

1: It is sexy
2: I read a LOT, and I always have a book in my car or in my back pack anyways. Taking the Kindle with me will be no issue.
3: I have a Sprint phone and have 3g everywhere I go, so wireless access won’t be an issue. Being able to download books as soon as they come out and not needing to go out to the store will be huge.

I have tried reading books on my iPod Touch and HTC 6800 phone, and it just stinks. I can barely read the words, am constantly scrolling, and it hurts battery life.

I think you are overstating the benefits of a “one device to rule them all” approach. Just because you can read a book on your iPhone, Netbook, or Blackberry – it doesn’t mean that you would want to often.

In any case I think that a real killer device would be a phone with a foldable or rollable screen and a Kindle like reading experience.