Once Amazon announced the Kindle 3, I knew the time had come for me to commit to getting one; but I wanted to wait a bit. Then they sold out of the initial supply, so I finally decided I didn’t want to wait too long and end up not getting one till 2011. So I preordered.

Now I’ll just need to budget for it. At $139, it’s not an unreasonable price and I can budget for it. Then I’ll need to work on saving up for one for my wife. I think it’d make a nice birthday gift, and simplify her book-buying. But I’ll let her try mine first to see if it’s something she’d like well enough to use.

We’ll see. At least Kindle is a whole lot more interesting than talking about a life insurance lead, though that’s fun, too, if you’re in sales.