No one's had much luck convincing us that staring at a backlit computer screen through 800 pages of Infinite Jest will be tolerable, but Amazon's Kindle looks like it'll be the tipping point. With what it calls an "electronic-paper" display, the wireless reading device promises the high-resolution screen feels just like paper to the eye. You can download any one of 90,000 books in less than a minute; most new releases go for ten bucks. We'd proudly go back to reading novels with this thing in hand — provided they're written in blog form, of course. ($399, Amazon.com) — Will Doig