I love my Kindle (1st Gen). I took it into court with me every day. It was the smallest, lightest item in my briefcase. Despite its ugly appearance, it's eas

I love my Kindle (1st Gen). I took it into court with me every day. It was the smallest, lightest item in my briefcase. Despite its ugly appearance, it's easy enough to use that octogenarian judges were able to start using my Kindle without any assistance. Plus, even though the Kindle uses proprietary DRM, that DRM is easier to remove than the ePub DRM. I've archived DRM-free copies of every book I've purchased from the Kindle store. As other commentators have pointed out, the Kindle is not a good choice for technical books in the Mobi format because the Kindle overrides fonts and spacing. However, I haven't had any problems reading technical books in PDF format on my brother's Kindle 2.