I just finished David Baldacci's Absolute Power and started The Deeds of the Disturber an Amelia Peabody mystery by Elizabeth Peters. I've been considering a Kindle. I'm waiting for it to come down some in price to the $100 range. When they came out with the $114 I was about to jump on it until I realized it had ads on it. Figure I get hit with enough of those on TV, newspapers, junk mail and magazines. Don't want it with my books!
As I understand it you don't get ads while reading. Only between books, but since I don't have the "sponsored" Kindle I can't verify that. Mine is first generation.
I do think Amazon should throw ya a bone and toss in some book purchases with the thing.