People who love gadgets and don’t have a Kindle are salivating. Heck, I have a Kindle and I’m salivating!

Remember the iPhone? Announced months before its release and there were fanboy and fangirl lines around the block at every Apple store.

The nook™ is set for a release timed for holiday shopping and business bonuses. I seriously doubt that Amazon will release another addition to their line right now. The international Kindle will spur sales in other markets, but that probably won’t affect Amazon US sales. I bet most people buy the cheaper Kindle 2.

I see that Amazon has already announced Kindle for Mac & PC. I bet that a few of your predictions will come true on the software end, but I’m a little doubtful of PDF. As others have pointed out, the nook™’s PDF reading may not be all that great.

I’m betting B&N made sure that Project Guttenburg and Google free PDF books look fine on the nook, but somehow I doubt that your random business document or medical text with charts and footnotes will be all that intelligible on a six inch screen without major zooming abilities. If B&N had that, they probably would already have included it in their videos and promo materials.

For me, I’m telling friends that the two features the nook doesn’t have that the Kindle does are features I don’t use that much: free internet and text to speech. Granted, I’ve loved them when I needed a fix, but I don’t use them constantly. Except Wikipedia.

I’m a little confounded by B&N’s not allowing the nook to connect to non B&N WiFi networks — I think a great selling point would be connecting and synchronizing your nook to your home network wirelessly and automatically.

Because it’s Android, I bet you that there will some smart person who will devise an app for accessing the WiFi for other, very interesting things on the nook.

I looked at the Sony 500 for months before the Kindle came out. Yes, it had PDF support, no it was not usable. Unless the Nook has reflowable PDF support it will also not be usable.

Sony had its reader out many months before the Kindle, not just this latest generation. It was not sold in large numbers because Sony in inept in the marketing field. Amazon overcame every objection I had to the sony and I bought on at first glance.

I don’t think the battery is an issue. I would rather have the fixed larger longer life battery than a replaceable one. I have the K1 and the K2 and I use the K2.

I don’t think there are enough Blackberry users that read books on their device to even ripple the market. It looks like a good selling point, but it has very little value.

The only reason I would want to read my book on my computer is to see maps, charts, graphs and pictures in a size and resolution that is useable. They are not on the Kindle. I do this with books that I get in PDF and convert to put on my Kindle. (Perhaps you didn’t know that PDFs are generally readable on the Kindle, e-Pub also plus ODT, DOC, TXT, PRC, Mobi, Lit, etc as long as they are not “crippled” with DRM, and even then if you want to strip that off which some people do regularly, not to give it away but to own it instead of rent it).

While we expect Amazon to respond, is there any chance that they might not? That would be terrible!