Back when the most basic Kindle cost more than $300, I got one (largely thanks to my mom watching Oprah rave about it). Back then, I said it's a nice way to read fiction, but cumbersome for anyone who likes to underline passages, write in margins, and then refer to those markings later on - i.e., anyone that writes nonfiction. What it would be GREAT for is high school and college students who read a textbook for a semester and carry around a sherpa's worth of books in their backpacks.I stand by ...