Users' Reviews on Amazon Kindle eReader: Pros & Cons

Here's a point-based list of the PROS and CONS I've gathered from reading dozens of reviews from real users of Kindle in forums and commentary sections in top sites such as Amazon.com. The list is based on real reviews, so it doesn't include the already-known or selling-point features that are frequently advertised. The reviews reflect more on their personal experiences using the Kindle and can help people make better decision whether to buy it or not.

You might want to read more on Kindle's specs and features first if you're not familiar with it.

It can be really exhausting to go through all those users' comments to build up some facts before buying (or not) the Kindle. It's even incredible that, having read all those reviews, you'd be surprise that less than 50% are the real points that you'd want to know - some reviews even overlap each other. I hope having them listed here in this point-form would reduce your excruciatingly long hours of review-readings and fact-findings effort.

The biggest selling point compared to other e-readers is the Kindle's wireless feature which makes browsing and buying ebooks extremely easy and fast.

Pros:

• Fast wireless downloading - Contents take only a few seconds to download, even an entire ebook. Users can browse through titles and read the summary or a few reviews easily before purchasing them.
  
• Massive amount of content - Kindle is connected to the Amazon's massive bookstore with subscription to a large number of newspapers, magazines, popular blogs, and the web through a free wireless service. Almost all of the previous ebook devices require connection with a PC to download ebook materials.
• Ebooks are cheaper - Most of the ebooks are retailed at $9.99, more than half the price of the real books. Subscriptions to magazines and blogs doesn't cost much too.
• Better than Palm-type eReaders - Many people who read ebooks from Palm feel that the Kindle is so much better than the Palm: Kindle's screen is larger and not backlit (and therefore readable under sunlight).
• Legible fonts - Kindle's fonts are extremely legible and superior compared to Sony Reader's fonts, its closest rival.
• Free content delivery - Delivery and conversion (into Kindle-friendly format) of content is 100% free. You will be charged 10 cents for each converted materials if they're sent directly to your Kindle, but it won't cost anything if those materials are sent to your Kindle email which can then be downloaded into your Kindle through a PC-USB connection.
• Everything in a light device - It's extremely great that you could carry with you contents equivalent to 100s of pounds of real books. You can choose and read what you want easily, anywhere and anytime, without the burden of carrying loads of books. (This is needless to say, really!)
• Readable - Kindle can be hold one-handed because of its easy thumb-paging, have crisp text, changeable font size (which is great if one wants to read larger fonts in some situation, say, on a treadmill).
• Ask anything to Kindle NowNow - You can ask any questions through Kindle NowNow feature. Kindle will send you back a few answers. Based on reviews, their answers are good and right. So, this in a way is a faster way of researching things, faster than even Googling them.
• Play music while reading - Kindle plays MP3s, which is a nice feature to have when reading (this is becoming a default feature in handheld devices nowadays, but it's good to put it down anyway).

Cons:

• Wireless in US only - Wireless connection is only available in the US. You can still download ebooks through a PC connection after receiving them through email, but wireless subscriptions are out abroad.
• Poor design - The design is not as sleek and technologically elegant as one would want, say, when compared to Apple's products. (Maybe something that they'd want to consider for the next Kindle...)
• Ordering is too easy - The one-click ordering feature is too frighteningly easy if the owner loses the Kindle. Somebody else can just use the Kindle to order ebooks until the owner shuts down the account. (It would be good to add password to Kindle for security).
• Accidental page-turning - Page-changing buttons were designed to make it easy to turn pages that it's equally easy for to hit the back-page or next-page buttons by accident. It needs practice to get used to it.
• Expensive - It's about $400. It's pricy, especially for a first generation of product which would definitely need much touch-ups and tweakings here and there. Think of it as a BETA version. Hopefully the market will drive the price down in the future.
• Doesn't read PDF - Eventhough it can be converted freely or at a cheap price if sent directly, it marks a point down to those who wants to review some PDF documents on the fly, say, while travelling.
• All contents are DRMed - DRM = Digital Rights Management, a tool to control and limit the usage of digital media. Contents bought for one's Kindle can't be shared with others. Some contents may even have a 'life', meaning that it has an expiry date after which you can't read it anymore.
• Lack of alternative ebook market - For example, it'd be nice to have a 'used' markets for ebooks for cheaper contents.
• Books are still priceless - Books still have their own appeal, e.g: cheap, long-lasting, durable, sellable as usedbooks, not DRMed, and [insert anything lovable about books that you can think of here].
  

Do you know of any other pros and cons I should add in this list, not overlapping with the ones up there? Or maybe that some of the above contradicts your own experience using Kindle?