I'm in love. It's bigger then I expected, even with a six inch screen I thought it would be a little smaller. It's a plus for me as I can easily read on it without my glasses. Two things I notice right off:
1) I see why people complain that it has no built in reading light. If you want to read it on an overcast day or in a bedroom with low light it's going to strain your eyes. That said it doesn't take much light to make it readable and the display is very very good.
2) The side buttons are a bit awkward. They are literally on the side, but activated as if they were right next to the screen. This makes it hard to use the Kindle with one hand, and they are not always responsive. Every ten pages or so I will skip a page because the button does not give me the expected feedback and the page turns can be sort of slow occasionally. The two seem to coincide.
Let's add two more. The keyboard on this one has a separate tab on it for uppercase letters, which makes typing on it cumbersome. I realize it is a base model, but they should have given us a shift key instead of another tab.
Lastly the one I ordered is the "Kindle 6inch with Special Offers". This is misleading, i thought i was getting extra stuff but what i get is built in advertising. I can remove it with a hack (I won't) but it is annoying, sort of.
I love it though. Going to get another one for the kid at Christmas.