Y'know, I might almost pay $400 just for an e-ink device that could access the live Wikipedia for free from anywhere in the US. If I could edit (which I doubt this allows), if I were confident that they wouldn't suddenly start charging for it (I'm not), and so on. I spend a lot of time on Wikipedia.

I'm afraid I wouldn't be much of a customer for Amazon's DRM-encrusted e-books, though. I buy, read, and keep literally hundreds of physical books every year and I might conceivably buy a fraction of them in an electronic format (probably a small fraction; I like real books), but I just can't see myself spending "real" money on an e-book unless I can do anything with it that's possible with the "real" book (short of bopping someone on the head with it), as well as enjoy all the unique advantages (searchability, easy transferability, etc.) of a digital medium. And I expect to pay less, since there's no expensive paper involved. So sue me, I'm greedy.

I do actually have a large collection of PDF and DJVU files, especially out-of-print reference books. It's unlikely I'd ever shell out for a reader that can't either deal with both formats, or at the very least offer a painless -- and free (ten cents, sheesh!) -- conversion method.

Kiscica