I will both save money and buy the Kindle. When I hear about a new book I want to buy and read it immediately, but it is usually in a hardcover and cost twice the price of the Kindle/amazon price and i actually have to make time to go to the store. if you don't cancel your other subscriptions you are being lazy and environmentally irresponsible.
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I'm actually saving money so i can buy the 2nd gen Kindle. I've already donated all of my books (prints) to my local library, so there's no going back form me.
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If you don't have one now, I feel it's best to wait for the 2nd generation.

I like the idea behind Kindles but have some problems with the current one:
1) The form factor. It is just not a good looking device. Hopefully, gen 2 will be better.
2) The price of the device itself is still too high. Yes, it is nice to have free wifi for life of the device, but at the current economic climate, it is hard to justify the price for most people.
3) The price of the books is still a little too high as well, considering you don't get the physical book. Not only can't you resell it, you can't really lend it out to friends/family either.
4) It doesn't have enough features as for now. I wish in the future, it can also have book lending service. Most of the books I read, I read it once, so there is really no need to keep it forever.
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I have a Kindle and absolutely LOVE it. Highly recommend it. I subscribe to 5 different newspapers and read them on my morning commute. The ability to search and store all these newspapers and books is super valuable for me in my job. I look forward to version 2.0 as I will definitely get one and pass the old one on to my wife.
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i bought one and never use it. It doesnt work the way I work.

So to answer your question, I wasted the money
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You probably can't actually save money with a Kindle unless you currently buy a lot of books in hardcover, or plan to buy older books in kindle format rather than newer ones. You save a few dollars on each book purchase with a Kindle, but Amazon claims that kindle owners actually buy two-and-a-half more books than non-kindle owners. And if you save say, $4.00 per book on average compared to buying a kindle version instead of a hard-cover, you'd have to buy about 100 of them before you'd just recovered the initial cost of the kindle ($359.00). You could save a bit of money if you were planning on buying an MP3 player, as the Kindle has that built in. And, there are sites like the Baen Free Ebook collection where you can download free books and stretch out your purchasing of new books. I do quite a lot of free ebook hunting, which does stretch out my buying of new books, but of course, when a work comes out by my favorite author, I buy it. On net, I suspect that I am buying more books than I used to.

My wife and I both have Kindles, and we love them - in fact, it's hard to imagine living without them. Not only do I read from it constantly, I move my own documents onto it, and use it for giving speeches, storing reminder lists, frequenly referenced information, and so on. When traveling long distances, you just stock up with half a dozen books rather than having to lug them around, which is a bonus. The Kindle's battery charge lasts about two weeks with the wireless turned on, if not longer. The Kindle is also a great conversation piece. Rarely a week goes by where some fellow commuter on the metro doesn't ask me about my Kindle.

I wouldn't buy the Kindle as a money-saving device, but if you're an avid reader, you'll likely get a great deal of pleasure from owning one.
Source(s):
http://toc.oreilly.com/2008/05/amazon-kindle-owners-buy-more.html

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