Monday coffee break: to Kindle or not?

A New Page: Can the Kindle really improve on the book?
by Nicholson Baker, The New Yorker

"The Kindle edition of 'Selected Nuclear Materials and Engineering Systems,' an e-book for people who design nuclear power plants, sells for more than eight thousand dollars. Figure 2 is an elaborate chart of a reaction scheme, with many call-outs and chemical equations. It’s totally illegible. 'You Save: $1,607.80 (20%),' the Kindle page says. 'I’m not going to buy this book until the price comes down,' one stern Amazoner wrote."