To all those who say that they love paper books:
Let me tell you guys something - I live in less than 900 square feet of apartment and I have, I think, eleven sets of bookshelves. Some have the shelves double-stacked, and all of them have piles on top of them. There are piles of books (and magazines, I don't discriminate) next to the bed, around and on top of my desk, the couch, around the television(delicious irony), and, ahem, in the bathroom.
I LOVE books.
And I'm drowning in them.
I'm also not particularly willing to pay $10 for a digital copy of something that's locked to a single manufacturer, though. Ebook prices are still too high to justify their regular purchase, if you ask me, without guarantee of rights in perpetuity across multiple platforms.
Mostly, I expect to be using it for news and blogs, free publications, a portable PDF reader, and Wikipedia. I'm really (nerdily) excited by the idea of being able to carry piles of research papers with me.
One thing that the Nook has over the Kindle is that I saw the Nook has a chess app built in, and sudoku. Man that's appealing. But the sale on the Kindle was too much to pass up since I've been chomping at the bit to play with one. Plus, my birthday is soon, so here's my present
