I’ve been lusting after Amazon’s e-reader, called the Kindle, ever since I read the first blurb about it before it was even offered for sale. The first ones went on sale in November, 2007, and I don’t know how many have been sold so far, but would venture to say it’s a lot!
That first version, now known as Kindle 1, was replaced by Kindle 2, which made improvements on the first, then Amazon added yet another version, Kindle DX which was a larger version (Kindle 2 is about the size of a paperbook, the DX is about the size of a sheet of copy paper).
Recently Amazon dropped the price of the Kindle 2 to $299, and after much researching about how happy people who had these were, I went for it. I’ve had it now 4 days, and boy do I love this thing. When you think about the wonder of being able to hold a little piece of technology in your hand that contains up to 1500 books (yes, that’s the storage capacity – now of course that’s not a hard and fast number; it wouldn’t hold 1500 copies of ginormous books like Atlas Shrugged, but still – it will hold way more books than you could possibly go through on a 2 week vacation, for instance.
I am still in the early “finding out all about it” stage, but it took me no time at all to become a huge fan. Gotta go read now.
