There has been a lot of discussion on the web about the Kindle's typographical qualities.

I've never actually seen one of these devices directly, but I was struck by the full-page advert on the back of this week's New Scientist.  It shows the latest Kindle with a page of text, which I immediately mis-read.  It says

LET US START WITH the river-all things begin with the river…

The thing between 'river' and 'all' is too short to be a dash, so I read it as 'river-all' which doesn't make sense.  There's another example of the same thing in the second paragraph.

And they still haven't got hyphenation working.  Two lines remain unjustified because the software can't even split pre-hyphenated words.

I don't know how customizable the display is, but those things are enough to keep me reading the old-fashioned way.

Update July 2011

I see that Amazon have taken my advice.  On the back of this week's New Scientist, the Kindle is displaying a very neat page of text with no dashes and no need for hypehenation.