Book of the future

Have you seen Amazon’s Kindle?  Sweet!!!  ‘Nuff said.

To me, it looks like a large PDA.  At $399, it ain’t cheap.  You can buy a laptop for that much, but it won’t be as light or slim as the Kindle.  If they could combine the Kindle functionality (read a book, buy online, download a book, etc.) along with an ad-hoc note taking capability (like a tablet PC) — I’d be willing to pay a premium for that.  If they take it one step further and allow for document sync between my Kindle and the Amazon servers — and then that syncs with my PC (Linux) so I have a local copy — I’d be sold and pay a premium!  I’m thinking something along the lines of Novell iFolder, but an embedded version that I don’t have to worry about.