I got mine pretty early and it was about $300. Oh well. You always pay more for new gizmos and Apple is not known as a loss leader.

I am trying to remember the brand of the MP3 player I had when the iPod came along. It was pretty decent, great for running. It held all of 20 or 30 songs ;-) I just checked the iPod and it has 17,629, my entire music collection.

>$139 is a nice price. I figure if Amazon doesn't have what I want nobody does. I found out other formats - epub etc - would convert easily. Didn't really geek out on researching it, just went for something I thought would do what I needed at a price that wasn't much risk. My sister has a Kindle2 she paid $350 for when they first came out and I like this one better
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>>>This gizmo is cool. Very easy on the eyes and a very well designed interface. And it only cost 10 times what I would ever spend on a pair of sunglasses <g>
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>>We were (or is it are) thinking on buying one of the e-book devices from some time now, and I was thinking that this Christmas would be a good time to get one but I am not sure which one as I do not know how they compare so I do not know which one to get (I still did not pay attention to the details, so I do not know the features of them), the Sony eReader the Kobo or the Kindle 3, have you tried other readers before deciding for the kindle? what was the main reason to chose it over the others, if is not too much to ask. Thanks!