I'm actively reading several books at any given time. They are all on my Kindle, so when I travel I don't need to decide which to bring with me and then later wish I had a different one.

I'm a long time Fortune subscriber and have switched my subscription to the Kindle. Since the Kindle is thinner than a single Fortune magazine, I'm now only travelling with the Kindle instead of a Fortune mag and a book, so there's some significant space / weight savings in my travel bag.

I've switched my WSJ subscription to the Kindle, which of course is automatically delivered wirelessly to the Kindle daily, so now I have my daily WSJ edition with me when I'm travelling instead of having a stack of unread WSJ's waiting for me when I get home.

I don't like reading long documents / white papers / etc on my computer, so I email them to my Kindle (each Kindle has its own email address).

So now I have my entire library of reading material with me, and I can make real-time decisions wherever I am, whether on a plane, in a hotel room, having lunch by myself, at a coffee shop, etc., about what I'm in the mood to read.

I make annotations / highlights to the books / magazines / newspapers / documents that are on my Kindle, and then I use the search feature to search across all of the material and annotations on the device if I want to refer back to something I've previously read or noted. This is particularly valuable to search across the back issues of Fortune magazine that are on my Kindle. For example, if I'm going to work for a new client, I search my Fortune library to see if they have been mentioned.

Not everyone will "get it" and not everyone will see value in it. But my Kindle has had an enormous impact on how I consume information. It's hardly a gimmick.