A boomlet of hysteria this week as the New York Times discovers books can be copied too. Shock and horror!

Nothing terribly new to see here. Cory makes his argument, LeGuin is outraged, and Slashdot and Booksquare weigh in.

That $360 device only works so long as Amazon decides it will work.

Well, yes. There's a shocker for you.

I'm putting this one up for the sake of complete-ism, I suppose. Because it's not like any of us didn't see this one coming right from the start.

And the saga continues. Today saw the eruption reach the larger sites, including BoingBoing, as well as sites that would have an understandable interest, like Sexerati.

Most accounts of the Kindle seem to fall into two categories: either the tech journalists evaluating it as a consumer product, or book trade people evaluating what it might do to current business models and practices. Relatively few are considering the Kindle as readers, and then going from there. Which makes Josh Marshall's post especially interesting, because he notes something about the Kindle (and the iPhone addon) that others rarely have, and then extrapolates from that to something that hits home for me, as someone who has a few thousand books himself.

Below are some quotes, and then a follow up comment: