| What is Kindle? If you haven't heard of it yet, you | | | | You can download a book to your Kindle for roughly |
| will soon. Kindle is one of the hottest electronic | | | | 1/3 the cost of buying the book at the bookstore. |
| gadgets since the iPod. Even as the iPod | | | | This allows the device to pay for itself quickly if you |
| revolutionized the way we listen to music, the Kindle | | | | are an avid reader. The Kindle screen simulates the |
| is revolutionizing how we read books, newspapers, | | | | look of paper. It doesn't strain your eyes the way a |
| and magazines. The Kindle is a thin, lightweight, | | | | computer screen does. It also can be read in bright |
| electronic book reader. It sounds kind of boring, until | | | | sunlight without any glare. |
| you see one or hold one in your hand. That is when | | | | You can adjust the text size to make it easier for |
| you begin to realize the power of this amazing | | | | you to read. Let's see you do that with a book. It |
| device. | | | | even has a "Read-To-Me" Feature that allows you to |
| Amazon, the net's largest bookseller, created this | | | | listen to a book, rather than just reading it. You can |
| device to make it easier to get books to its | | | | turn pages back and forth quickly with thumb |
| customers. It uses 3G cell phone technology to allow | | | | controls on each side of the device. |
| you to download a book anywhere where you can | | | | The only thing that disappointed me was the voice |
| use a cell phone. The average book takes less than | | | | of the Read-To-Me feature. It is that electronic |
| 60 seconds to download. Currently, you can choose | | | | computer voice that has been used for years in |
| from over 300,000 books in the Kindle library as well | | | | text-to-voice applications. Hopefully, as technology |
| as many leading newspapers and magazines. | | | | improves, the voice on future Kindles will improve as |
| Amazon's ultimate goal is to allow you to do this with | | | | well. |
| every book ever written. | | | | |