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

Changes in recording & 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 a hundred years old and the ability to write and keep records is a defining element of civilization as literally the dawn of history.

Not just is the tradition of writing essential 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 age of information no less. And perhaps one day, when we look at this in a historical prospective, we'll place the kindle and ebook readers in general along side paper, the printing press, the PC and the net.

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

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

The kindle carries 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 could read PDF-files and Amazon's Whispernet service; you could send your documents straight 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 like you might write in the margins of a book. And because its digital, you can edit, delete, and export your notes. You could highlight and clip key passages and bookmark pages for future . You'll never need to bookmark your last place in the book, as 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 either a male or female voice. The kindle has audio jack and built-in speakers.

The kindle has an one week battery life, two weeks if wireless is turned off, is charged through USB and is completely 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 hasn't been the death of the LP, the E-book reader will not be the death of the book. People still build excellent LP collections, and the bookcase wont soon be something of the past. LP's and books have something upon themselves, an emotional bond we've 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 are not subject to technological progress, instead advancement in media compliment them.

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