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I hope so, kinda useless otherwise. Of course, only one place to buy that content from.

The are hundreds of thousands of free e-books available for the Kindle.

Free Book Collections

Baen Free Library

Munseys

The chances are quite good that you can borrow e-books formatted for the Kindle through the online services of your local public library:

Nioga Digital Home [Western New York]

You're not seeing the data I'm seeing, like the dozens of people writing me and saying they dropped plans to buy kindle as soon as they saw ereader running on their iphone. The iphone is cutting the legs off of kindle sales even as we speak.

Many thought the company was crazy-doomed when that little gadget first launched. (Even the die-hards.) And yeah, the price was criticized.

I agree with a number of posters who say when folks trash Kindle, they're really trashing ebooks in general. What I think Amazon pulled off with Kindle was a way of grabbing mainstream book-buyers--Romance, Scifi and Horror readers have been into ebooks for a while.

I'm not a total fanboy; like my Kindle, hate the case. I'll only add that, when taking the wife to malls, I've gone back to bringing the Sony with me, partly because I'm not finished a couple of Talbot Mundy books, partly because, with its slightly smaller size, the Sony fits into my jacket pocket, while the Kindle doesn't.

But, as to all Kindle lovers being cultists:

"all criticism is autobiography"

Oscar Wilde, The Portrait of Dorian Gray

I'm an ebook person, I've been testing a site that'll work on Kindle devices. To date, I've put 30 or 40 books from that site onto my device--works fine. No bills for it have shown up in my Amazon Kindle account. Note this is not to hype the mobile site, I'm soon to replace it with a Joomla version (but probably the guy who does booksonphone will blow me away soon anyway).

Anyway, free content loads flawlessly, I haven't been charged for putting it on my device via Amazon's bandwidth, and the tools are there to generate mobipocket books.

Project Gutenberg should maybe make a mobile interface as well...

I'm an ebook person, I've been testing a site that'll work on Kindle devices. To date, I've put 30 or 40 books from that site onto my device--works fine. No bills for it have shown up in my Amazon Kindle account. Note this is not to hype the mobile site, I'm soon to replace it with a Joomla version (but probably the guy who does booksonphone will blow me away soon anyway).

Anyway, free content loads flawlessly, I haven't been charged for putting it on my device via Amazon's bandwidth, and the tools are there to generate mobipocket books.

Project Gutenberg should maybe make a mobile interface as well...

I got Tuesday, no probs.

I also have a Sony PRS-500 (the earlier model.) Previously, I've owned the Gemstar-1150, the Franklin Ebookman, and various Palm/Handspring devices I used primarily as ebook readers.

Kindle kicks the ass of any of these devices--maybe an Irex Iliad or the Bookeen device might be similar, but the Kindle takes Mobipocket, no sweat, has, at launch, five times the content available for Sony, I can put free titles wirelessly onto the Kindle from my WAP beta site, (needs a search engine) and unlike the Sony device it formats books flawlessly (justifying the text, giving you six settings for the font size, etc.--just beautiful).

I'm not a huge fan of the Amazon DRM, or indeed of Amazon's terms for publishers, but one of my sites does sell ebooks profitably--nsfw :), and I'll put everything there on Amazon, because they just won.

Full review here, if I'm not already touting myself too much.

I got Tuesday, no probs.

I also have a Sony PRS-500 (the earlier model.) Previously, I've owned the Gemstar-1150, the Franklin Ebookman, and various Palm/Handspring devices I used primarily as ebook readers.

Kindle kicks the ass of any of these devices--maybe an Irex Iliad or the Bookeen device might be similar, but the Kindle takes Mobipocket, no sweat, has, at launch, five times the content available for Sony, I can put free titles wirelessly onto the Kindle from my WAP beta site, (needs a search engine) and unlike the Sony device it formats books flawlessly (justifying the text, giving you six settings for the font size, etc.--just beautiful).

I'm not a huge fan of the Amazon DRM, or indeed of Amazon's terms for publishers, but one of my sites does sell ebooks profitably--nsfw :), and I'll put everything there on Amazon, because they just won.

Full review here, if I'm not already touting myself too much.