

Most of these questions I've actually been asked (some of them frequently) others are rhetorical. For organizational purposes, I'm going to do it as a Q&A. Here I want to gather up knowledge generated from and circulated by many of my favorite e-reader blogs, just to try to give you an inkling of all the things that a new Kindle can do. The Kindle suffers from two things: 1) it's never going to do everything that a full-fledged computer or even a color touchscreen tablet can do and 2) the Kindle 3 has improved on a whole slew of features that were either poorly implemented in or entirely absent from earlier iterations of the Kindle. I was actually surprised when I bought my Kindle not just by how much it could do, but by how well it did it. I usually wind up in conversations where someone says "I'd like to try a Kindle, but it can't _." Usually, it can. Amazon's Kindle can do a lot more than just buy and read Amazon-sold e-books.
