Readers love to read. And readers love to hold a book in their hands and read. Now there is a better way to hold a light weight reader in your hand, and read and read until you are content. The Amazon Kindle 2 leads in sales against the other readers on the market. All eBook readers use monochrome displays using electronic ink. This electronic ink produces sharp easy to read text. By using this ink there is no back lighting for the readers so just as with a book you cannot read in the dark. An e-ink image persists on the screen for up to two weeks on the screen. Readers say there is no glare and it is like reading a piece of paper. Thus it is easy on the eyes.
The Kindle 2 is wireless enabling seamless downloads without a computer from Amazon who now offers more than 230,000 titles that typically cost $9.99 even for bestsellers. You use a micro USB (Universal Serial Bus) cable to charge the already long lasting battery. Amazon uses a Whispernet network and there is no better way to buy e-books. Turn on the EV-DO (Evolution-Data Optimized) modem, and the Kindle will
automatically connect to the Amazon.com store. From there, any book in the Kindle catalog can be downloaded in less than 60 seconds. Whispernet uses Sprint's EVDO 3G (Rev A) network. You will not have to look for a hotspot.
Although the Kindle 2 costs the same as the original Kindle, it has eight times the storage. Amazon claims you can store more than 1,500 books on its 2GB of internal flash memory (1.4GB is available to the user)-compare that to the 256MB, 400-book capacity of the original. All of your book and magazine purchases are also backed up online, so if you delete books on the device, you can always re-download them from the cloud. The original Kindle debuted in November 2007 and was an instant hit selling out quickly. The Kindle 2 was available for purchase on February 23, 2009 and it is the highest selling reader.
Newspapers, magazines and blogs are also available to download to your Kindle 2. You may download and read first chapters before you decide to buy the book. You may also get newspapers from France, Germany and Ireland. Time would be saved if you could read all your favorite blogs on this device at one time. They are updated throughout the day.
The Kindle 2 features 16-level greyscale display, (an image in which the value of each pixel is a single sample) a text-to-speech option to read the text aloud, and overall thickness reduced from 0.8 to 0.36 inches (9.1 millimeters). That is thin! Color would be nice but not possible yet.
The Kindle 2 has responsive buttons that are easier to manage and you will not accidentally push them. The keyboard is also easier to use than the Kindle 1 when you type in your author or title or if you search for documents.
Avid readers insist that you save money on books when you use a Kindle. What a dreamy thing to take on vacation or auto or plane trips. No lugging heavy books and magazines. Weight and luggage space is certainly something to consider on the plane trips this year. Ask Santa for a Kindle 2 this year and tell him I want one, too.
Elizabeth Larsen has shopped for over 70 Christmases and has raised children and also knows what grandchildren and the whole family want for Christmas. Find out more at http://www.squidoo.com/last-minute-Christmas.
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