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One of you assholes buy & review it, so I can make an informed decision.

I have the Kindle 1. K2 is about the same, really. A couple of improvements, but mostly same same.

It's got "E-Ink" technology that lets you read anywhere there's light. Even bright sun. No backlight. Easy on the eyes, and you can change the print size in 6 adjustments.

New books cost $9.99. Older ones, less. Classics that are out of copyright can be had for free.

I read a lot on it. For instance, I bought Kill Bin Laden, a soldier's view of the battle of Tora Bora. Interesting, but I wanted to know more. I finished the book and bought First In, a CIA officer's version with lots more cultural stuff. And when I finished that, I read 3 more books on Afghanistan. Because I could get them right away. The books download in about a minute.

$350 ain't cheap, and a lot of people just like the feel and smell of real books. I like both. Kindle is not good for books with pictures, which print out on a hazy gray scale. You wouldn't want a cookbook with illustrations of techniques, a map-heavy book, a book on fine arts: all those you should have in "real" book format.

Nice features are bookmarking, highlighting, and near instant dictionary lookup. Also a search function you can use with the little keyboard.

I have one because some NY editors have them and like you to email your manuscripts to them, so they don't have to drag home a whole lot of paper every day.

All in all, I like it a lot.

See GDG for a dissenting opinion: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=200269&hilit=Kindle

I'm waiting for electronic paper. Xerox R&D has developed a plastic type paper that can display text. Imagine a sheet of paper that changes text automaticly. Go a set further and imagine it combined with Wifi technology so that you can use it like a computer screen.

IMO the technologies that depend on broadcasting or projecting iamages into your eye have a lot of potential problems ealth wise; however it will have it's niche and uses. It more likely that we will be able to display images on a whole variety of media; glasss, plastic films, metal etc.

O DAMMIT

Wrong idea, guys. Want to make more people happy? Don't ADD shit, strip it down! Guess what? Most people that use E-books also own computers! They dont' need the fucking wireless!

JMO.

seeahill wrote: Kill Bin Laden, a soldier's view of the battle of Tora Bora.

A good read. BTW, I served w/ Sgt. Major Ironhead, before his Delta Days. He was a superstar even then.