I am curious. Do you use your Kindle to read books only, or take notes on them and work with them?
I know my question might be a little annoying, but I really want an eInk device for school! I teach and am a scholar, and it is imperative that I am able to take notes and put bookmarks... It seems like a big pain to be able to do so on the Kindle2 and DX. Could I get your opinion, please?

@adf: Frankly. It just depends on what you want to do with the device. If you just want to read books, go for the Kindle2. If you want to read PDFs and take notes. Just don't buy either or (Kindle2 and DX). The reviews from college students and faculty from Princeton was very harsh on the inability or awkwardness to take notes and bookmark parts of PDF and books on these devices. I wanted one very bad, but after reading the Princeton review, I decided not to.

@ Phil Perman: I agree with you. eInk is the way to go to read on a digital device. However, I do not think that the kindle is a professional device, nor it is meant for scholars or students. I wonder why AMAZON is trying to get into college with this thing when it's so complicated and awkward to take notes and bookmark. Isn't that the purpose of reading when you are a professional student? I don't get it.

When you say:
"Contest is open to anyone in the 50 States, 18 or older! Sorry, we don't make this rule (we hate excluding anyone), so be mad at our lawyers and contest laws if you have to be mad."
You do not mean that you have to be an American Citizen in order to participate, just leave there, right?

Then... This is my message!!!

Thanks.

I am dying to get one, but the price is really high, and makes me wonder if I should get it or not.
I do read a lot, but my first use for this would be for school. I teach French in college, and I have to carry around at least two books a day that feel like bricks in my bag. My main concern is that these books are not eBooked yet (did I just invent a new verb? Yay).

When text book publishing co. will understand that I don't need to carry around a 300 pages book every day just to teach classes, I will be a happy man!

I have a new riot call: eBook Text Books... eBook Text Books...

Wow... It's not even out yet, and it already looks outdated... When is Microsoft gonna get it???

Hum... I guess it is a good initiative, because let me tell you something about the hassle of getting tickets from my dear "not-anymore-friends" of the SNCF!

First, I'd like to mention that I am French, and I have been living in the States for 10 years now. Therefore, I have a bank account, well, you know, in America!
I happened to be in France over the summer, and I was travelling to Brussels, from Paris by train. The train going to Brussels from Paris is called "Thalis." It is a fast train from the SNCF Co. and I had purchased my ticket on line about, hum... Three months in advance... As a native parisian that I am, I knew that I could retrieve my tickets in less than 5 sec. (in theory) from one of the automatic machines at the beginning of the train platforms at the train station. The only "ick" was that you needed a VISA card (the one you used to buy your ticket with on line!). Not a problem, I say: I mean, I'm travelling... I live for plastic, right? Wrong!
I needed a chip on my card in order to get my tickets, even though I had already bought the ticket, mind you!
I am lucky enough to actually speak French (well, it's my native language! I'm from Paris, as I said!) and I called one of these little cute girls to help me with the issue. She could not figure out why it would not work at first, and I asked her to call her manager, because I am so americanized now, that I do not need to deal with petite people, right! Her manager came to me with the most annoying non-parisian-who-give-a-bad-name-to-parisians attitude, and told me: "Sir, it is written on the machine that it will not accept cards that do not have chips." She was right! It was in very very very very small, fine print, under the VISA sign! I have a 20 x 20 sight, and I could not spot this. I argued that THEY should write this on the eTickets, and she told me that she could not do it right now, obviously, because she was too busy! Like she was actually going to do that herself! Pfuuu!

Anyway, all of this to let you know that I had to wait about an hour at a regular teller to retrieve my ticket, and was in line with hundreds of other foreigners who got the same issue... Obviously, the SNCF is on strike like... Hum... Every week, or so... I ain't kidding you! It also has major issues on how it manages to sell tickets, because their infrastructure is packed of dumb lazy people. It's sick and madening... So, I welcome any type of improvement... It's MORE THAN WELCOME... Anything to just zap these dumb French girls I need to deal with when they tell me: "Where is this card from? That is soooooooo Third world!" What kind of comment is that? B***

Good luck, mate...

Wow, I did not think that my comment was going to generate that many responses... Thank you!

@ schmitty338: I know that there are schools that already practice "VirtualTextBooks" but it's not everywhere... I really wished that major campuses around the States were doing the same as your school (I think it's a High School, from what I understand!).

@ johnny5: Realistically, I don't think that students would be able to "re"sell their VirtualBooks. What would be very nice is a way to update content to your TextBook, and be able to have them for life as reference books. You would be able to build a personal database that would include "references & links to original materials," "quote management (to find your quotes by "Theme," "dates"...)."

OMG... Let me tell you:
From a person like me, who takes classes, and give classes, this would be the most perfect tool.
Obviously, these types of invention do not come to fructition, because of the TextBook industry.
I agree with you when you say that an online downloadable text book community would be great. Students could pay a variable fee depending on how many books they download, and how many classes they are taking.

Unbelievable that in the beginning of the 21st centuy, we have not resolve the problem of way-too-heavy school bags... It is a serious problem in countries like France, where periods are divided very differently than in the US.

OMG, I remember how much I used to drool in fron of the NEO GEO and its controller...
Nice...