These are all very valid points. Several of them (the ones related to DRM, mostly) kept me from buying a Kindle for a very long time. However, I love my Kindle

These are all very valid points. Several of them (the ones related to DRM, mostly) kept me from buying a Kindle for a very long time. However, I love my Kindle. First and most importantly, it means that books can now compete with the internet in convenience, and that's meant that I've read more in the last few months than I have in the several years before that. Thinking "I want to read <X>" and being able to start reading minutes rather than days later is awesome. Second, I find the Kindle to be much nicer to read than cheap trade paperbacks. The text is higher-contrast and crisper, and only having to push a button rather than turn a page means I can read more comfortably. That there's less text on each screen was an issue at first for me (because, like the author, I read very quickly), but I've since gotten used to it and don't even notice anymore. It has its downsides, and I really do hope they're resolved at some point in the future, but my Kindle has become something I really wouldn't want to live without, at this point.