Amazon Kindle
Oprah Winfrey’s new favorite product, the Amazon Kindle is an amazing new technology. If you are an avid reader but concerned about all the paper that goes into printing a book or newspapers, then the Kindle is for you. The Kindle is the size of a paperback book, weighs only 10.3 ounces and can hold 200 titles on its built in memory, you can add an optional SD card for even more storage. I know what you are thinking, books and newspapers don’t waste much paper, so do they really have that big an impact on the environment? Well consider this, not only does it take paper to make books and newspapers, but it takes trucks to deliver these items as well. A truck to drive the book to the bookstore, a truck to deliver the papers to paper machines and homes. Potentially, you take a car to the bookstore to purchase the books that you read, that is a lot of emissions to pump into the environment don’t you think? The coolest feature of the Kindle is that it has built in wireless internet access and you can set it up to automatically download the daily newspaper, you don’t even have to have your own internet access at home, or even wireless at home, it is all built in so you have nothing to do. Every book you buy for the Kindle gets backed up so if you need to delete it to make room for more books or you delete it by accident, you can download it again and again with no additional cost. Try doing that with iTunes. You can even shop that Kindle store right from the device, so if you want to find something new to read, you don’t even need to fire up the computer to shop. It can search your book titles, it has allows you to make bookmarks and annotations and has an ergonomic design and full QWERTY keyboard. Reading a book and not sure of the meaning of a word, no problem, just look it up using the Kindles built in dictionary. Have trouble seeing the text in some books, no problem there either, simply increase the text size to one you can see better. The Kindle also has built in access to Wikipedia. The battery life with the wireless left on all the time is not bad, you need to recharge it every other day. With the wireless off, you can use it for a week or more before you need to recharge, so it is energy efficient as well. The other nice thing is that most titles are 9.99, that is a savings over the cost of a regular book so if you read a lot, the Kindle will pay for itself over time with the money you save on the books. You can even download the beginning of any book for free so you can get an idea if you will like a title before you purchase it. The selection of books is huge too, there are about 190,000 titles available and 105 of 112 current New York Times best sellers. I was skeptical of the Kindle at first, but then I got a chance to use one that a co-worker has, I was really impressed with it, and I am not easily impressed with electronics, trust me.
Pick one up today, and if you use the code OPRAHWINFREY at checkout before 11:59 PM on 11/1/08, you will get 50 dollars off the cost.
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