Amazon Kindle

jv before you give up on the Kindle can I point you to www.instapaper.com - It's basically a 'read it later' service for the web. I have mentioned it before on this thread. So for example you see a nice big article, post or book online but can't read it just then. You just clip it to instapaper, allowing you to come back to it later. It supports the Kindle by emailing a digest of all your day's clipping to your Kindle. (You can also do a single post, that entirely up to you.) I have instapaper'ed The Alchemist as an example here is the link : The Alchemist

You can have a Kindle and basically not buy any ebooks from Amazon if you so desire, just used Calibre and Instapaper and you should be fine.

thats awesome thanks fasih! can i ask what you mean by emailing stuff to your kindle?