I'm being slightly bitchy.

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I'd love to have a Kindle. I'd love to have like hundreds of books with me at all times and my choice of which to read. It's like an iPod. But for books. And who hates iPods? I mean I love my records but they take up so much space, and I can't take them everywhere, and CDs were fun but also quite a bit limiting, but now my 15 GB-sized music collection goes everywhere with me. Sure, a Kindle would require batteries, that I don't refute, but so does my cell phone and I don't think anyone would argue that the old rotary phone wired to my mother's office wall is more convenient because of this. I could wirelessly download things for cheap, or free, without going to the one bookstore we have across town. Bonus, it's way better for the environment than regular books, where do you think paper comes from? And how do you think they get boxes of books from place to place? I would use the shit out of that thing and probably love it forever, and I'd almost certainly read a lot more.

Dude. Amazing. Why does everyone get so snooty about these things?

... God, I really do want one now. Amazon has a deal with Sprint which lets you connect to their network anywhere for free. Maybe if I send Amazon ten dollars a month they'll let me have one in ... three years.