Amazon has recently decided to lower the price of the Kindle, perhaps to make it more available for early holiday bargain-hunters. However, I question whether the Kindle (or the Sony Reader, for that matter) is actually a good thing. The process of reading a physical book may seem old-fashioned, but it provides more of an aesthetic experience than looking at a screen. Despite the technological drawbacks -- it has been proven that books can download 0% of online material -- good old books still constitute the right choice in my eyes.

Here's a link to a Baltimore Sun article about the price change.

--Stefan