I was reading an Engadget post earlier this week that pointed to an article on the Daily Pricentonian regarding the failure of the Kindle DX to catch on as an academic product. One student went so far as to say that the Kindle is a poor excuse for an academic tool. Well I've got a news flash for you my peeps :-)

The Kindle is not meant to be an academic product. It's a commercial product, for commercial books (not textbooks), that allows readers to read one book at a time (you can't have more than one open concurrently AFAIK), and it only allows you to annotate some interesting things here and there.

Unless we come to a point where Kindles are like star trek PADDs, where we have at least five per person and they recognize hand written notes, I doubt that the Kindle will be anything more than a novelty.

Sometimes I wonder why people think that anything that comes out and is used in an educational context that it is necessarily meant for that context. People take products and they appropriate them for their own uses (I mean see the whole #lrnchat thing with twitter)