45-cent Kindle Stand

if you're willing to spend 360 plus ten bucks per book... ah, nevermind.

Until the price of the kindle and the price per book are lowered its a rip off. I'd much rather spend $6 on a paperback copy than $10 for a digital copy. I think the kindle is pretty nifty and would buy one if it werent so expensive

so wait, let me get this straight, the digital copies of the books, that require virtually no infrastructure to deliver, cost 40% MORE than an actual physical book? that's the most absurd thing i've ever heard, i think the kindle is a great device, but that's just silly.

his first problem is having a kindle in the first place.

I love paperbacks.

Remember a few years back when Amazon would sell pdf and lit ebooks that anyone could view with their Palm, Pocket PC, or Phone? Ah, but then they got greedy and tried to corner the market...

Don't forget the physical book is a very small part of the overall cost of selling a book.

@SenorMysterioso : paperbacks don't cost $6 of course, but much more.

nonetheless, what everyone seem to miss with this kindle thing, is that when all literature will be digital used books won't exist anymore. This big part of our life as readers (especially, but not only, its beginnings) won't exist anymore.
Everything, no matter how old and how little read or cared for, will cost exactly like new. Demo-dictatorship of digital life if you will. Of course, there will be piracy for the reader with no money. But piracy is supposedly illegal where a decent exchange of used books isn't.

Norm Jenson , ok, but what about the savings in distribution, transportation etc? Profit margins in the book industry seem less than transparent. And yeah, buying a Kindle and then saving on the stand is a little puzzling. With 360 bucks you can get yourself a wheelbarrow of excelent books.

Why make your own contraption or lug around some piece of hardware bigger than your Kindle? The Kindle 2 is minimalist beauty and there is only one accessory that matches that. I found the Cyncronix Kindle Stand on Amazon that stays on the Kindle all the time, folded flat when you don't need it and folded out when you need the Kindle to stand at just the right angle. I love it, it's thin, flat, and light, and you notice it only when you need it!
http://www.amazon.com/Cyncronix-For-Kindle-KSA-6-Stand/dp/B0030E8BT0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1261461452&sr=8-1

Just did this.... LOVE IT! I was annoyed using holding it up. Now it is awesome to read with!
Thanks for the idea!
-Hethe