A digital reader like Kindle for magazines would be greatly appreciated

Magazines are they really going to wait around like that?   Why don't magazine publishers look at the potential they have of filling a niche that is wide open in the market instead of complaining that the devices that are on the market are not fitting their needs.

Why don't they create their own device.  Amazon created the kindle for the sole purpose to read books, so why can't the magazine industry create a device for the sole purpose of reading magazines.

As a women who loves magazines, I would gladly purchase a device to read magazines so that I didn't have to have piles of magazines littering my house.  It would be a wonderful way to archive the information that I get in a magazine and to be able to access it without digging through piles of paper that my dogs eventually end up chewing on when they are bored.

When I read this article, a few thoughts came streaming through my head and here they are:

1. Magazine Ads.  I like them.  Actually I love getting Vogue and some of the other fashion magazines just for the advertising.  You can forget about the pharma ads, they are horrible but that is what happens when you have to have two pages explaining what the product is to avoid lawsuits.
2. I love well written articles.  I love reading interviews by writers who can write and I love reading thoughtfully written articles which are available in magazines.
3. I love cooking magazines.  I love the pictures and I like the ideas they generate.  I love getting them in the mail and then making the recipes.  I  would love to have them on a digital device that I can take to the kitchen.. at this point, I use my ipad on a stand but I would buy a device that is just for magazines that connected to the internet for more information... so had the magazines but also a browser in case I needed to get information off the internet about some kind of cooking device etc.
4. I don't think magazines online should cost as much as a physical magazine.  Having worked for a magazine and having worked in new media, I know creating the content is a major expense but online magazines should be discounted or should get the benefit that the file distribution cost is minimal (except on itunes where you are having to share 40 percent of the revenues)
5. I buy technology gadgets and it is ok to have more than one.   Women don't think like guys.  We buy a hairdryer, a curling iron, an iron just to straighten hair, ten different brushes, five different perfumes, fifty different pair of shoes, so what makes you think we wouldn't buy more than one technology device?   Go ahead and make a device just for magazines. We will buy it just like we bought the kindle.  We carry purses and have no problems having more than one device in our purse.  In fact, at this time, I have a flip camera, my new Fuji camera (bought at Saturn for 35 Euros), my ihpone and my ipod all tucked away for daily use.  

I like to read magazines and non fiction books so a device just for magazines that  allows me to download and read any magazine would be good... don't make the device only for one publisher which limits the usefulness of the device and don't make too complicated or too simple... make it so that it can sync with my computer and I can archive the files in a hard drive.  

Make it so that I can read or see more information online regarding the article.. I know that the journalist took a huge amounts of notes for that article, allow that info to be browsed through as an additional bonus for the reader.   I know from experience that the writer only has so much time to write a piece but will gather quite a bit of information on the subject that doesn't get used because an ad cut into the pieces space or because the article flowed better without the information.    Like on Youtube videos, make this information available to the reader if they want to read it.. It will have them coming back for more.