Amazon's new Kindle

The blogosphere is all a-twitter about Amazon's new Kindle ebook reader. I don't have one and wouldn't even think of getting one until it's well under $100 and the ebooks are in the $5 range. Not to mention that it isn't even available in Canada yet. (iPhones too. What's up with that?)

But, I do have a compendium of blogospheric reactions, mostly slightly negative but a few wildly positive, to share:

• Caveat Lector
  
• O'Reilly Radar and another.
  
• if:book and another
  
• Science Library Pad
  
• ACRLog
  
• Academic Librarian
  
• LibraryStream
  
• Robert J. Sawyer
  
• Scobleizer

Update 2007.11.21 with more links:

• BoingBoing
  
• G.B.H. Hornswoggler
  
• DigitalKoans
  
• Stephen Abram
  
• Lorcan Dempsey
  

And more 2007.11.22:

• Free Range Librarian
  
• Walt at Random
  
• BlogNation
  
• Engadget
  
• Slashdot and here and here.

And a few questions:

• Is the future having a bunch of single purpose devices that are really good at one job or having one multipurpose device that may not be equally good at every task?
  
  
• What if I'd rather spend my money on content rather than content-reading devices? In other words, is a reader worth the 40 books I could have bought with the same amount of money? The people that make and sell the devices certainly think so, but how about the people that make a living off selling content?
  
  
• Is the book industry heading the same way as the music industry? Is the value of the content to the consumer tending towards $0?