An E-book Reader You Might Actually Like

If music was sentient, it can thank the iPod for leading the way to making it portable. Thanks to Apple’s creation, people can enjoy music wherever they go. It’s too bad that the iPod doesn’t have a literary counterpart. While e-book readers have appeared in the past, none of them became popular. Regarding that, Amazon has a proposal via the Kindle:

Amazon’s first iteration of an electronic book reader is the Kindle. Introduced in November, it weighs about 10 ounces, holds more than 200 full-length books and can display newspapers, magazines and blogs. It uses E Ink technology, developed by the company of that name, that produces sharply defined text yet draws power only when a page is changed, not as it is displayed.

At $399, the Kindle is expensive, but it sold out after its debut and it’s certainly showing signs of promise. Will it replace books as we know it? It’s hard to tell, but at least it’s showing signs of promise.

Source: New York Times

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