Amazon announced their ebook reader today, Kindle. Some of the earlier hype I’d read about it suggested that it would be not only a reading tool, but a writing tool as well.
Nope.
The obvious thing is the keyboard, an immediate non-starter for typing more than a few words. But if an external keyboard is possible, I could still live with it. For now, it seems like an OLPC would better serve my needs for an ultra-portable writing station. And for the same price, I get one and so does somebody else who need it. -m