There it is, my awesome Kindle, Claude. You can't really tell, but it's facing direct sunlight and still it's possible to read every word. E-Ink is so unbelievably cool, I tell you!
I've acquired loads and loads of scary books and am already on my second book.
What's also a cool feature - albeit an illegal one - the custom screensavers. You can jailbreak your device (it's surprisingly easy, with an iPhone you'd always have to be afraid of bricking it!) and then put your own 8-bit greyscale images up there. I've grown fond of squiddyskull, ya know?
At first I was a bit afraid of the small delay and the screen turning black when turning pages, but you don't notice it at all. When reading a real book, the next page doesn't magically appear in the blink of an eye either :)
So, all in all I think this really was worth the purchase. It's so useful and I think it'll be better to take along on vacation than 14 single, heavy books!