OMG The Amazon Kindle. But not really OMG after all.

Ever since I was 2 hours old and started reading I have loved books. I buy five books every time I am at an airport, just to be safe. A captivating book is the difference between a flight from hell and instant time travel. With a good book I don't notice the world, I love gliding obliviously thru airports with a book resting in reading position on the cart.

So for me the electronic book is a holy grail. Ever since I was a kid I wished to have all the books in the world in my hand.

I noticed the Kindle was introduced today and at first I was like, wow, this is perfect, it is Teh Future Begun! I can have hundreds of books and all my notes and personal wikis and wikipedia and dictionary and wow wow wow! Then I dived into the specs, ahem... and crazy expensive? No PDF support? No html? RTF? No NOTHING, except awz and txt? And the books are DRMed? It is locked to your Amazon account? WTF?

Why is it everyone in the ebook race always does one thing wrong. This thing looks awesome. But "Proprietary", "Locked" and "DRM" are NOT benefits, Jeff...

It's like making an mp3 player that doesn't play mp3s only realaudio and WMA.