Kindle Not So Hot for Academic Pursuits

Alex Golub discusses how the Kindle performs for academic reading, and concludes that "the Kindle is designed to let you read mystery novels, not academic books."  Pluses:  compact, lightweight, and "terrific battery life."  Minuses:  very tough to move back and forth between main text and bibliographies/endnotes; no sophisticated note-taking features.  Even with my 100-plus-books-per-year habit, I still haven't purchased a Kindle.  But I have reduced the number of books that I purchase by joining the Netflix-for-books service, Bookswim.  By subscribing to the three-books-a-month plan, I can use Bookswim to rent the new, popular novels that I really want to read, but don't want to keep.  So far, I love it.