One can't look at a kindle and not think; IPod. Not just for the fact that with it's monochrome display and white plastic body it kind of appears like the first IPods, but also because what iPods and mp3s generally have done for music, so has kindle done for literature.

Changes in recording and reproduction of writing have come slower then changes in recording and reproduction of sound, but then again recording and reproduction of sound is just over one hundred years old and the ability to write and keep records is a defining element of civilization because literally the dawn of history.

Not just is the culture of writing crucial to qualify civilization but it has also been the instigator of epochs, expanding ideas of the divine, bringing us out of dark ages, media and mass literacy defining the modern world. We live in the era of information no less. And perhaps one day, when we look at this in a historical prospective, we will place the kindle and ebook readers in general together with paper, the printing press, the computer and the web.

The Kindle is an organic successor to the book, having the dimension of a little mag (8" x 5.3" x 0.36") and weighing less than a paperback (10.2 ounces), it could hold around 1,500 books.

The books can be bought and downloaded wirelessly for a small fraction of the price of the dead tree edition from the kindle shop, that now holds over 360,000 titles, directly to your kindle. Your library is automatically backed-up on the internet. You could also download leading US and global newspapers, mags, popular bogs and feeds and audio books.

The kindle has a dictionary; The New Oxford American Dictionary with more than 250,000 entries and definitions and even has free wireless access to Wikipedia.org.

The kindle can read PDF-files and Amazon's Whispernet service; you could send your docs directly to your Kindle and read them anytime, everywhere.

The full QWERTY keyboard permits you make notes and bookmarks, you can add annotations to text, just as you might write in the margins of a book. And because its digital, you can edit, delete, and export your notes. You can highlight and clip key passages and bookmark pages for future . You'll never require to bookmark your last place in the book, since Kindle remembers for you and always opens to the last page you read.

Changeable text size, screen rotation and full image zoom offers you much more options to enhance your reading experience. The kindle will even read for you, sorry, to you with the read-to-me feature in a male or female voice. The kindle has audio jack and built-in speakers.

The kindle has an one week battery life, 14 days if wireless is turned off, is charged through an USB portal and is fully charged within 4 hours.

I've sympathy for the book, and with my bibliophilic father I've grown fond of my living room with towering bookcases. But as the mp3-player has not been the death of the LP, the E-book reader will not be the death of the book. People still build wonderful LP collections, and the bookcase wont soon be something of past. LP's and books have something upon themselves, an emotional bond we have of them. The LP being a symbol of entertainment, creative skill, and bringing across ideas, book just more so and that of academic virtue, but both are symbols of creation. These aren't subject to technological progress, instead advancement in media compliment them.

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