Despite the Kindle’s appealing wireless technology, its physical design is uninspired. I’m hoping that Amazon realizes the true business potential lies in the content they sell to each ebook owner and opens up their massive library to third parties. If Apple or Ideo were to design an ebook capable of downloading from Amazon, I’d buy it instantly.

1) on book readers in general – I can take 20 books, the Wall Street Journal, New York Time and Newsweek with me everywhere I go. I just think that’s a great thing and I would love to see text book makers relieve our kids from their 100# backpacks with this technology.

2) On Kindle – no backlight so it reads very much like a real book. Same shape and size of a real book and I feel very much like I’m reading a real book – except – I can highlight, save, search, look-up words all on the fly.

But, the killer feature for the Kindle and why it shines over the Sony product is the Amazon network. There is a wireless device built right in and I can get books or my subscriptions to daily blogs and newspapers just by turning it on – no need to hook up and download from computer. So, if I’m riding the train and someone tells me about the book they are reading, in about 10 seconds I can be reading it!

The screen is not backlit (which is a huge drain on battery life), but has the same contrast as a piece of paper. If you can read a book with the available light, you can read an ebook.

The advantages are:
1) you can carry and read over 100 books at once. As one who likes to read more than one book at a time and can read a book a day, I used to travel with a stack of books that took up luggage space and were heavy.
2) The ebook always remembers the page you left off.
3) You can change font sizes so that any book can be a large type book
4) books cost less since there are no production and shipping costs
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