| Note: This is NOT an unbiased e-book reader | | | | seem like more words than anyone would care to |
| review! I love the Amazon Kindle 2! If you are | | | | read, the point is that you can carry an entire |
| looking for a "fair and balanced" look into the | | | | library inside the device. It is a mere one-third of |
| Amazon 2 wireless reading device, go elsewhere! | | | | an inch thick and only weighs ten ounces, which is |
| Amazon was the first to begin selling books online | | | | less than a typical paperback. This makes for |
| so that people could purchase them without | | | | portable, pleasurable reading. |
| visiting a bookstore. Next, they redefined what | | | | There have been a few other improvements with |
| reading text means by allowing people to peruse | | | | the K2 wireless reading device over the original |
| publications without the tangible, paper material, | | | | version. The display screen has been improved to |
| and using the ebook reader instead. If those | | | | more closely resemble reading from paper, with |
| privileged enough to have purchased the Kindle | | | | sixteen shades of grey for clearer text and |
| are still swooning over it, then wait until they get | | | | crisper images. The battery life has been |
| a glimpse of the Amazon Kindle 2. Simply put, the | | | | extended by twenty-five percent, and page |
| K2 is the original device with upgrades that have | | | | turning is now twenty percent faster. It also has |
| taken it a giant step forward into the future of | | | | a feature that allows you to adjust the text size |
| reading. | | | | for your needs. |
| The K2 is fast drawing away from competition, | | | | One of the latest novel features of the Amazon |
| so if you are in the market for an electronic | | | | Kindle 2 is that it now has a text-to-speech |
| reader, you should look into this device. People are | | | | function. This lets you have your magazines and |
| moving in droves away from paper copies and | | | | newspapers read to you, if you so choose; and |
| are going digital with all of their reading. That | | | | makes a wonderful companion when you drive or |
| seems to be the trend both fashionably and | | | | do other work, which requires visual concentration |
| functionally these days. Not only is it handier to | | | | and your hands to be free. The K2 is exclusive to |
| read in this way, the environmental impact is | | | | Amazon, where you have over 250,000 different |
| considerable. | | | | book choices, plus a large assortment of |
| While the first e-book readers were designed to | | | | magazines, newspapers and blogs. You can also |
| hold up to 200 novels, the new Amazon Kindle 2 | | | | download ebooks at a much lower price. |
| can hold over 1500 tomes. Though that may | | | | |