Boing Boing Gadgets: 15 Things I Just Learned About the Amazon Kindle. Real (non-speculative) info about how to get different kinds of data onto the Kindle, for free and for pay. Joel says the meager built-in web browser can see the whole web, and is free, despite the existence of $1/month blog subscriptions. Also, it will accept files transferred over the USB cable (no email required) as long as they're plaintext or in the proprietary file format (AZW). The service that takes files of various other types by email and beams them to your reader also performs a conversion to AZW—and Amazon offers the conversion without the automatic transfer by email for free, so you can convert files and transfer via USB later.

Of personal interest: "Kindle also features "Kindle NowNow," a human-powered search query system powered by Amazon's Mechanical Turk distributed work system. NowNow is free."