Kindle 2 may have its faults and it may be that the text-to-speech feature is too good that authors who sell audiobooks might be at loss as it’s a billion dollar business.
What do I have to say on that? Well, it’s not a bad thing, audiobooks simply have to go now, good bye old technology!
Get the Amazon Kindle 2 at the Kindle 2 Store here.
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMHLHxvJmZU
Here’s a nice video explanation of the Amazon Kindle 2.
One thing I like about this Kindle 2 is the fact that Amazon hooked up with Sprint’s EDVO network to launch the free wireless 3G connection to the Kindle 2.
The only disadvantage to Kindle 2 may be attributed to the fact that people have to actually buy the electronic books, sorta like Apple App store. This may save trees but I wish there’s a way for people can “trade” the books they’ve bought, sorta like real books. (Well, that mig
Amazon Kindle may be the new kid on the block but if you got a Blackberry Storm or Bold, you might as well get one of these E-book app Mobipocket to turn your Blackberry into somewhat like a Kindle.
Of course, Kindle does have power advantages over a Blackberry such as the LCD but the point is that you don’t need the Kindle if you have a Blackberry.
On the sidenote,
One of the most recent Esquire magazine comes with an E-ink module, that proves itself useless after you read the magazine.
The guys at Hackaday went really far into hacking this E-ink module to use it as a clock. Now, that’s a good re-use, why waste technology?
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kluFFU90qnI
If you’ve never heard about electronic paper, crawl out from under that rock and read up on the Sony Reader and the
