You represent a very tiny minority of prospective kindle users. The people using the kindle just want it to work (this is why Bezos worked out the deal with Sp

You represent a very tiny minority of prospective kindle users. The people using the kindle just want it to work (this is why Bezos worked out the deal with Sprint). Have you ever tried walking grandma (Who is a memeber of one of the major groups the kindle is aimed at: The elderly) through setting up her ipod? Then transferring songs to it? Can you imagine walking the same person through the steps required to convert whatever file it is she wants to view on her reader, how to plug the USB cable in, what hole it goes in, what buttons to press, when to press them, what it all means, where the books are, how to find them on her harddisk etc. etc. etc. The kindle is good because it is simple. If you don't want that, get an old palm pilot or a nokia 770 (which is what I used before I got my kindle...palm back in early 2000 and nokia up until about a year ago).