I agree that the Kindle is ugly. The Sony eBook is much more attractive. I guess that the price of these devices has a lot of scope to fall. I for one would love to have my entire technical library on an eBook, it would take up less space, I would always have everything to hand and it would hopefully be far more searchable. Going forward it will be interesting to see if attitudes on this change. Having looked at a Sony eBook I could certainly read a novel on it and it may be that the convinience of only carrying one thing will eventually overcome our love of physical books.