Amazon's "Kindle" - screen burn-out or sell-out?

The BBC recently reported that Amazon's new e-book reading device called Kindle has just sold out. It was introduced only a few days ago with lots of excitement from the tech gadget community.

Personally, I think it is a joke. Here are my top three reasons why...

1) It can't read PDF files. Guess what the most common file format for e-books is? You guessed it - PDF.

2) It charges you to read blogs online and to add your own e-books to the device - things that you can do for free on your laptop.

3) Screen apathy. We spend enough time behind a screen. Who wants to read books from behind a screen, too? As it is, many e-book readers find the need to print them off rather than reading them online from their PC. What makes Kindle any different?

While I can understand the concept behind having a device that can store thousands of books in one hand-held device, I doubt that most owners will use it for much more than quick referencing. It would be convenient to have thousands of book details available in a search friendly format right at your fingertips, but doesn't mobile access to the web already offer that?