Amazon Kindle
Amazon Kindle is an e-book reader with the ability to wirelessly download books, blogs, magazines, and newspapers. As reported on the Amazon website, this device is now sold out despite scepticism about whether the device will prove popular.
One has to question how many units are actually on sale initially.
From Fox News review of the Kindle, “You can also bring your own documents along on the Kindle, though this ability is somewhat limited. By connecting it to a computer, you can transfer plain text files. If you want to bring PDFs or Microsoft Word documents, you have to e-mail them to Amazon, which converts them and sends them to the Kindle over the wireless network for 10 cents each. In my test, Portable Document Format files with text in columns were garbled in the conversion. The real reason I can’t recommend the Kindle is the battery issue. It’s quite possible that Amazon could apply some simple fix, like a software upgrade, because the battery life is much shorter than its components seem to warrant.”
Source: Amazon Reader Needs More Juice
