I've toyed with the idea of getting a Kindle or other ebook. It's kinda convenient I guess for avid readers but I doubt it addresses my main beef at all, which is reading itself. "Think of a book and start reading it in 60 seconds" is not really a compelling proposition if it takes (me) 60 hours to make it to the end (if I finish it at all). It seems more like misguided optimization to me. Wake me up when there is a gadget that uploads the information directly to my neurons in 60 seconds.