My girlfriend got me a Kindle 3 as an early Christmas gift, and while there are a lot of things I wish it would do better (or at all), I actually really like it

My girlfriend got me a Kindle 3 as an early Christmas gift, and while there are a lot of things I wish it would do better (or at all), I actually really like it. From worst to best: 1. The Kindle is pretty terrible for textbooks or other things used purely as references (some people supposedly read texbooks, I don't). 2. The Kindle isn't too bad for technical books that you actually want to read, but aren't going to use as references. For example I bought the Kindle version of Douglas Crockford's Javascript: the Good Parts and read it front to back without much issue. Code formatting was my greatest concern, but its not too bad. Sometimes when a code block flows between pages and you want to flip back and forth it can be a little annoying, but overall not much worse than having to turn a physical page back and forth. It can also display PDFs, which I used to read Robert Love's book about Linux Systems Programming. The PDF display functionality isn't the best, largely because it can't re-flow text to make things a good size. But as long as this isn't the main reason you want the Kindle, its not that big a deal. 3. The Kindle really comes into its own for books of pure text you just want to read front to back. My biggest gripe is that a lot of books in the Kindle store seem to have been scanned in with pretty terrible OCR (some books are perfect, but in others its comment for a '1' to be used in place of an '1' or 'i', or for some reason for 'F' to be used in place of 'I'). Since I've been in College I haven't really done much recreational reading, but the Kindle has really gotten me back into it. Since I received it about 10 days ago I've read a Tom Clancy book, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Javascript: The Good Parts, Red Planet and the Robert Love Systems Programming book (the name escapes me at the moment). The real value of the Kindle (or really any e-reader, the Kindle just happened to be really cheap and reputable) to me is the instant delivery of books. When I want to read something, as long as I have Wifi (didn't get the Whisper-Net-whatever-version) I can find something to read. Even better, Project Gutenberg has a huge collection of free Kindle-formatted ebooks. I can't normally be bothered to go to a store to pick up a book, or even wait for one to be delivered, and I don't like reading off of a computer or phone. But when I can instantly have a book on a great screen, and even have a huge selection of free ones, suddenly I find that I can't stop reading.