The first time when I heard about Kindle, an e-book reader from Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/kindle), a couple of years back, I had fallen flat for it looking at its features. I had put it in my Wish List at that time itself. However, I had to hold back myself for three reasons: first, it's better wait for a couple of release of any newly innovated product of any kind or brand for it to get improvised in its subsequent versions after the customer feedbacks; second, the price - usually it will be higher when it newly comes to the market as there will not be any competitors for it; third, it wasn't available in India and nor Amazon was shipping it internationally;.At last, I bought it during this March, not using 'international shipping' option though (it was costing $100 more due to customs duty, S&H, etc.); but shipping to my one of my friends' US address (Thanks to Arjun) and later getting it to India (thanks to my neighbour Srikanth).
I think it's one of its kind of an innovative product. Whilst I don't want to write about its various features per se (which can be seen from the link above), it's a wonderful product that any person who has a good reading habit should own. You can store 1500-2000 books in it! It directly connects to Amazon.com (using whispernet) to enable you to buy books from its online store. The experience and the feeling (esp. when you read it in the bus and people look at it curiously as it's still a new product around) is amazing! :-) It's certainly handy especially when you are traveling where you don't have to carry bulky books. You can upload PDF files and play musics too. If you are planning to buy one, pls don't hesitate, just buy one, it's really worth it and pays your buck off!
