Just a quick FYI, the Kindle will read vanilla TXT. Drop the file across USB to the Kindle and it appears in the list of books as whatever the file name is. It isn't always pretty to read (that's the nature of TXT), but it is readable.
Josh
On May 8, 2009, richfield@telkomsa.net wrote:
Though I am tempted (thanks Jim et Al et al. for the pricing info) I
also am strongly inclined to vote with my patience and my wallet for
waiting till some rival device appears that will read several of the
most important data formats, including common word processors AND ABOVE
ALL, vanilla TXT. I am not as wedded to TXT as Michael Hart, but I
still regard it as the most basic requirement for many purposes.