Amazon's Kindle Both Satisfies and Disappoints at Once

I just spent a Thanksgiving weekend with the Amazon Kindle, the online retailer's newest entry into the long-disappointing ebook market, and was pleasantly surprised at how well the system works.

Whether you like the Kindle will depend, as most of the early reviews have, on whether you focus on Kindle, the physical ebook reading device, or on Kindle, the complete ebook distribution system.

The later is the best thought-out, most thorough yet with by far the largest inventory of ebooks ever offered.