I finally decided to take the plunge and buy the Amazon Kindle. The killer feature in the Kindle is the Sprint EVDO connection which lets the user download books without having to hook it up to a computer. However, the Kindle does not support color ink and renders images poorly. A book with a lot of illustrations is unreadable on a Kindle and so are magazines and newspapers.
In the video below, Jeff Bezos talks about the Kindle roadmap in an interview with Charlie Rose.
