It's possible I'm missing the point of reading blogs on the Kindle, but these "subscriptions" don't do much for me. I like the Kindle for its easy OFFLINE reading capabilities, and I use the wireless only when I'm actively fetching something to read offline. This works very well for books and newspapers, but blogs are more dynamic and really belong in an always-online browser or an always-offline reader. I suppose that's why the price is so low, but in this case, you're getting less than what you pay for.
The Kindle edition of Slashdot fails at both online and offline reading: Headlines and capsule summaries are automatically downloaded whenever the site updates and my wireless switch is turned on, but to actually read the content, I need to fire up the (slow, monochrome) browser and fetch it from the web site.
The whole point of the /. site is to be linked to interesting tech stories, so it would be helpful to see TFA ("The Fine Article," as the slashdotters would say) with the downloaded content.
The same goes for reading the always-amusing reader comments on the site -- they aren't downloaded automatically, and paging through the sorted comments is a chore without a mouse or keyboard.
This half-online, half-offline approach is like the worst of all worlds. Until the delivery method is improved to the point that it sends the full data set, I'll stick to reading Slashdot in my browser or via Google Reader Mobile on my cell phone.
