Amazon debuts digital book reader

[gkd_uk]

Online retailer Amazon has unveiled an own-brand wireless electronic book reader called Kindle.
The paperback-sized device is on sale immediately in the US for $399 (£195). It can store up to 200 books in its onboard memory.

Kindle does not need a PC to be loaded with books, blogs or papers - instead content arrives via wireless.

Amazon said 90,000 books, including bestsellers priced at $9.99, were available for Kindle at launch.

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[vicdigi]

I was reading about this on the way home from work today in one the free papers they give out in the city.

This is quite an amazing piece of kit - of course, you can't beat reading a book. It is also upto four times faster reading from paper rather than a screen!