When I first heard about Amazon’s new e-reader, Kindle, last week, I was pretty excited. Yeah, it’s pricey, at $400, but the idea of being able to read not just books but newspapers and blogs wirelessly and comfortably really appeals to me, as does the idea of being able to carry around a lot of reading material in a small package. (As a subway rider who hauls around a lot of crap with me every day, this can be a matter of some concern. If I’ve got only a few chapters left in a book, do I take it with me on my trip plus something else to read when I finish that -- which means carrying around an extra book all day -- or do I put the almost-done book aside to finish later and just start on a new book? Truly, this is a dilemma of literary proportions.)
