I agree with you.

The one HUGE thing for me - and this applies to all other kindle apps and ereaders -

The ONLY way you can get audio text to speech is on the Kindle device itself. Other kindle apps? Nope. Nook? Nope. Sony? Nope. Anybody? Sorry.

Personally, I use my ipad Kindle app for non-fiction books, and my Kindle 3 for everything else.