Let e-Readers Be e-Readers: Let's not turn them into all-purpose devices until we get the reading details right.

The Kindle DX's five-way joystick is quick, convenient, and expertly designed. (Plastic Logic's touch screen really isn't markedly better than using Amazon's joy stick, but that's because the touch options are fairly rudimentary.) The problem is the dearth of good places to direct the cursor.

That's a real shame because one thing we've learned over the last two decades in journalism is that information architecture is everything. Charticles, sections, deep captions, multiple points of entry, these are the hallmarks of journalistic innovation--and successful careers--for this generation of editors and readers. But all of that has been thrown out with the E Ink interface. We're back in the days of William Shawn's New Yorker with no table of contents and bylines at the end of the article. -- Marion Maneker, Slate