Speaking as someone who pre-ordered the original iPad, has an iPad 2, has bought iPads for everyone in the family, and loves the iPad -- I preordered a Kindle F

Speaking as someone who pre-ordered the original iPad, has an iPad 2, has bought iPads for everyone in the family, and loves the iPad -- I preordered a Kindle Fire. The funny thing is that the iPad started out as a media consumption device but rapidly became a pretty decent all-round device (it doesn't replace a "real" computer but it sure reduces the need to have one around), but it's still 1.5lb and quite big for, say, reading in bed. I prefer reading an iPad to reading a book (I'm reading Clash on Kings in paperback right now, and almost wishing I'd paid -- double -- for the Kindle version) but I'd prefer reading something as small and light as a Kindle to an iPad if it had a color backlit display. (I'd have bought a color Nook if they could play Kindle books.) Oh look, the Fire has a color backlit display.