It's not a horribly negative initial reaction, other than the font size. (Which, okay, is kind of important. :P ) I love how it feels to hold it, especially with the official case on it. The size and the weight are perfect. It just feels nice to hold it and use it. The smoothness of the plastic and the leather of the case. I wish the touchscreen were more responsive, but I'm getting used to it.

And yep, I don't even have the iPad anywhere near where I read. I want to use just the Kindle for at least my current book and next one, see how it goes.

Someone else commented with a good suggestion -- you can increase the spacing between lines (the whitespace), and that seems to have helped a good deal. I'm using that third largest font, which gives me a reasonable amount of text per page.

I actually do have reading glasses, I just haven't seen them in a couple years. I'm going to see if I can hunt them down, because I'm sure they'd help with this.