His main takeaway? It’s cheap — both in price and in quality.

As someone who still has a Kindle 2, I had been debating getting this. But I’ll now wait to see the reviews of the Kindle Touch in November. 

I suspect it will be largely the same device just with a (shitty) touch screen. Still, I find myself trying to turn the page or highlight something on the Kindle 2 by touching the screen all the time now. 

I sort of wish Apple would make an e-ink reader. They won’t — there’s a reason Amazon is getting into the backlit tablet space after trashing it for the past two years — but I would love to see their take on the space.

I love iBooks on the iPad, and especially on the iPhone. It’s a beautiful reading experience in every way except one. And it’s the big one. The backlit screen.