I bought this for my husband as a gift. He loves to read and thought this would be a great gift for Summer travelling. What sold him on the Kindle was the Whispernet Technology that would allow him to browse for and buy books virtually anywhere you can get Sprint cell phone coverage. We live in an area that supposedly gets awesome reception - orange area. The device would show full bars, just like a cell phone, but could never get and maintain a connection. If he tried to download a book it would hang up for several minutes and then say the connection was lost. Twice he called Kindle support. He was told to go outside, go to a different location, or just download books off his computer with the provided USB Port. He tried moving to different locations but downloading books from his computer defeated his reason for getting the Kindle in the first place. So it went back to Amazon.

I am giving the Kindle 3 stars because as a eBook reader it is nice. It does need some redesign in the "Next Page" and "Back" buttons as they are very easy to press when you don't mean to. If you are perfectly fine with downloading your books from your computer then you will probably love the Kindle. If, however, you would like to take it with you on business or pleasure trips and don't have your computer you may not be able to download any books, newspapers, magazines or blogs.

I think Wi-Fi technology would work better with the Kindle. There are more and more hotspots available now. Even in McDonalds. And most hotels and airports also offer Wi-Fi making it great for travel. So until that aspect is improved upon he will continue to read books the old fashioned way or use his iPod Touch for audio books.