I read most books on paper. Simply put, the kindle won't change that, and will probably reinforce it.
This could be useful if it were given freely to students and loaded with required reading by the school, but the cost would have to come in significantly below OLPC.
Even then, I feel like Amazon is late to the party, and at the wrong address anyway. The trend is moving away from stovepiped single-purpose devices and towards multi-function mobile devices. I'll wait for the next round of phone-camera-media-browser-dishwasher-espresso-cart-robot-lackey to include an eBook plugin. Speaking of that, which reader of this site is already at work building an eBook reader for Android?
This could be useful if it were given freely to students and loaded with required reading by the school, but the cost would have to come in significantly below OLPC.
Even then, I feel like Amazon is late to the party, and at the wrong address anyway. The trend is moving away from stovepiped single-purpose devices and towards multi-function mobile devices. I'll wait for the next round of phone-camera-media-browser-dishwasher-espresso-cart-robot-lackey to include an eBook plugin. Speaking of that, which reader of this site is already at work building an eBook reader for Android?