If there was ever a device screaming out for a virtual keyboard, it's the Kindle. Now it's just screaming louder. Also, the horny one hasn't seen such an expanse of white space since the summer shorts sale at the Mall of America.

The Macalope isn't anti-Kindle-the-Concept. The paper document has had it coming for years. C'mon. Anything that has its own cut named after it is just to be put down. But is this the best we as a species can do?

It really rubs this mythical beast the wrong way (and you want to rub a mythical beast the wrong way--some of them will just explode) when people say, "Just wait until the device that [some company] hasn't even announced yet ships! It's going to blow [actually shipping device] out of the water!" So he's not going to do that.

He's just going to note that the market for document readers isn't there yet and there's still room for other players.

Whoever those might be.