Hands-on Review: Amazon Kindle : Christopher Null : Yahoo! Tech To Kindle or Not to Kindle...is THAT the next big question for libraries? This review may help us decide..that is...once the price is lowered to less than the currently astonishing $399. Still, Amazon is currently sold out at that price. But will they EVER reach a bigger manufacturing capacity? I'm a bit worried about that, when I read this downer review at TeleRead. They HAVE been keeping up with the whole eBook issue :) But that would be if we chose to circ the devices preloaded...like a Playaway. OR, what if we just buy the Kindle titles? Is that fair? Is it serving the more affluent patron? But wouldn't it be cool for patrons to put a Hold on a Kindle title we own (because there are DRM and licensing issues--as with our eAudiobooks), and when it came available--it's beamed via wifi to that patron's device? To me, it sounds more like Amazon has invented the cheapest pocket PC going...what with web browsing at Wikipedia available. And sending your OWN documents--by email...at 10 cents a pop...probably to pay for the wireless cost to transfer it. You can already connect it to your own PC and exchange stuff. I suspect that the next generation of Kindle will act more like a big fat blackberry, except for the phone part. What do YOU think? Email Sally!   ¶ 12/05/2007 0 comments