I was traipsing around online and found a very interesting new device. It's called kindle. To sum it up, it's like an ipod for books, magazines and newspapers. It has a screen that displays the reading material and you scroll to view.I'm an avid reader so the idea of being able to download books (they say in just a few minutes) sounds great! Also it would be nice to be able to take several books along wherever I go. I'm already an itunes addict and this looks like another potential addiction.
The Kindle is made and sold by Amazon.com. They are also providing the content in that they will, from what I understand, manage the list of available downloads and sell the downloads to Kindle users. Which I see as a plus since I'm already an Amazon.com user. I have found Amazon to be pretty good in general. The device as you can see is not very big, about the size of a paperback book but thinner. Also you can download without being connected to the Internet, which sounds good. Apparently Amazon downloads to the device by using cell phone technology.
I read the customer reviews on Amazon and they look fairly favorable. My only question is regarding the availability of books by African American authors. That is a make or break for me since I really love to read books by African American women. Also it really would have been nice if an MP3 had been incorporated into the Kindle. Maybe that will come in future models, especially since Amazon is now selling MP3 downloads.
So now the question is, will my budget like Kindle?
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