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“Wear the old coat and buy the new book(Kindle)”

Amazon kindle is an e-books reader which give access to digital books, newspapers, magazines, and blogs. It’s really great to have the newspaper delivered to your Kindle each morning for commuters.

Kindle Screen and battery

Kindle 2 uses “e-ink” technology,to give the appearance as printlike material on screen. No back light so no eyestrain, but need a light source to read in dark. Adjustable font size to six different levels makes it easy for strained pupils.

specs claims, the screen is 6-inch (diagonal) electronic-paper display, with a 600×800-pixel resolution at 167 ppi.It also supports with 16 shades of gray for better display of images.

Normal 2 hours of charging will give 2 weeks of battery , the battery life is twice as much as when the wireless is switched off. Improved
Text-to-Speech feature and MP3 player might also affect the battery life.

Kindle to connect web cloud
Kindle wireless options pairs itself with sprint cellular data network to connect Amazon’s Kindle store which also get access to more than 50 thousand books.

Amazon’s entire library of digital books is available with overview ,if your impressed with overview you can download whole book with in minutes via Internet which can also be transferred to your kindle using USB cable.

Kindle to school’s and collage’s
Having provided with kindle to the school students with pre-loaded syllabus will avoid them carrying heavy books. “mac world says..” Buying e-books online will also save them 50% of the cost invested in the textbooks. Kindle also provides built-in keyboard and expandable SD card slot to have their notes stored.

Kindle in iPhone or iPod Touch
iPhone or iPod Touch owners can download the Kindle app from the iTunes App Store, and read books on either device as well. In fact, if you have an iPhone or iPod Touch, you don’t need a Kindle e-reader to download Kindle books.

Advantages of kindle
1. Faster refresh ,Quick and easy navigation
2.No eyestrain
3. Mobile support
4. Built-in free wireless
5. Built-in keyboard to store personal notes.
6. Text-to-Speech feature to have text read aloud.
7. MP3 player to listen to your favourite
8. Go green (just do not kill the trees to feed the readers)

Disadvantages of kindle
1. Amazon proprietary book format
2. Do not support PDF and Microsoft word readers
3. Red hot to the wallet (to costly for students)
4. Sealed battery

Kindle is great stepping stone for traditional booksellers to elevate into a new e-book business. Borders U.K has joined the race of e-book reader with its new product Elonex, soon Barnes & Noble(Nook) might come with new product to have healthy competition.Sony the tough contender is already in the market with relatively same price.