For me, I can see using this for all sorts of audio/visual/music applications. Most ideas have already been said.

Sheet music/lead sheets is a great idea. There are already devices for this (SamePage is one I think), but think of your music on a touch screen with your notes that you can swipe on the fly and change songs or change keys on the fly. The SamePage units (or whatever my church uses) costs at least $1000-2000 and I don't know if they even have touch screen. $500 for a similar unit that's only 1/3 of the thickness would be awesome.

Or how about a remote platform for your digital mixing board? Moving around the house to check the mix while changing it remotely. Too much reverb? Not anymore. Guitar too soft? Bump him up a few dB. Again, laptop programs exist for that, but an app on a $500 unit is not very expensive.

As for if I'm buying one, I can't right now. I need a new computer, but I'm planning on a MacBook Pro. Most power to mobility. But if I had $800 to spend, I'd get an iPad and some accessories, if for nothing else but the cool factor.

I thought I replied before, but it must have not gone through...

I've got some posts lined up to use, should I need some material. And the redesign won't be done for a while. Thanks for visiting!

For me, this past year I've really started to dig into HTML, PHP, and CSS. And I thank Wordpress for that. I've become a decent theme designer, I think. Still learning from those much better than I!

For 2010, I've got to get into Javascript, and maybe AJAX. Maybe some more Python code too. If I can get my hands on some Adobe CS items I might dig into Flash, but who knows.

That is too cool. Looks great!

I was thinking about the fact that books can let you imagine the scene while movies show you when I was commenting before. In this case, it's an "advantage" that written media has. I don't have any idea how it can be done in film, but I've seen shows and movies that accomplish it (for me anyway).

Yeah, I didn't really think I'd like Redeeming Love, it being more of a "romance" type novel, but I couldn't put it down. Not sure what that says about me, but hey!

And yeah, Three was made into a movie. I haven't seen it, but I didn't hear good things about it.

You have to look at the intent and the portrayal. I don't know if you've read "Redeeming Love" by Francine Rivers (I recommend it highly!), but the book deals with sex a lot. It's a retelling of the book of Hosea, and the female lead begins as a prostitute. Her life is described but it is never vulgar or explicit. Sometimes it's metaphorical. But the impact is never lost, and the book feels very honest. Ted Dekker did the same kind of thing with suspense in "Three".

I think if Christian filmmakers used their tools like that, they'd be portraying sin as evil without the films being evil. The Bible, as you said, is full of adult situations. If we made a movie of that, it'd probably be to intense for many. The trouble is, real people use bad language, think bad thoughts, do bad things. Christian films in my experience seem to gloss over that in favor of simplistic stories where you can figure the plot out in 5 minutes. Personally, I'd deal with some questionable stuff if the story rang true.

Ok, I'm rambling on now. Good questions.

Been at work a bunch recently, so been a bit, but here's my current desktop: http://twitpic.com/s5wbt Not too bad now, but it was much worse.

Ok, I'll be an alternative voice today. My desktop is always a mess. I had the whole screen covered in icons and folders that I wanted to keep visible and my MacBook had to go into the shop. The guys moved all of it into one folder on my desktop because the fans would kick on for every boot because it had to draw so much on the screen. Now it's not so bad, but I still have some random stuff on the desktop just because I don't know where to put it.

But I still know where to find everything. So there! ;)

If I had the spare cash to buy a Nook, I would. I think that looks better than the Kindle right now.

But to really get me in, I need first a lower price. I can't spend $250 on a device that can reasonably be replaced by an iPhone/iPod device that does many other things as well. Second, it needs to act like a book. By that, I mean the points you mentions about highlighting, writing notes, sharing, etc. A touch screen would make this great, and a stylus would be even better.

You hit all of the points that I have thought about in book readers, and some I hadn't. I still cannot get rid of my physical books, and I imagine I never will. But the next generation may look at paper books like my generation looks at vinyl records.