Out of the box and reading my first book in under ten minutes. YES!!

Here are some blurry (sorry, I cannot take a picture to save my life) pics:

Cool packaging

Meet your paper sisters!

Fits on the nightstand

And we're off...

although let’s admit that this cover:

Is way more fun than THIS cover:

I’ll be taking this little baby with me on vacation next week, and hopefully will have a user report when I get back. At this moment, I must say I am so thankful I went the path of least technological resistance. This thing is idiot proof! (So says the idiot who had been using it for a total of 15 minutes! LOL!)

Here’s an unusually sane and accurate review of the new Kindle from today’s NYTimes. (Most reviews are either technopohobes who hate the idea of ebooks, Kindle fanatics who have lost all sense of proportion, or geeks who think one electronic device should do 80 million things.)