My Kindle 2 arrived a few days ago, with a slender Amazon box, holding a heavy black sleeve interior packaging and a carton cradling the slimmest Kindle
imaginable. I’d seen photos, of course, but was surprised how lightweight the new Kindle really is. To be honest, I never had a problem with Kindle 1′s size or weight, although I was among the chorus shouting to Amazon to moved those damned buttons so I didn’t keep inadvertently turning pages!
When I pulled the Kindle 2 out, it was clear the page turning buttons were far superior as well as the navigation – - morphing from a weird silver blob in K1 to a nifty 5-way joystick in K2. Best yet is the speed. K1 moved along at a nice even speed, but the K2 burns rubber. When you have as many books on your machine as I do (more than 25 pages of listings) navigation speed counts.
Playing with K2, I was curious to learn more about the text-to-speech function, which basically turns the Kindle into a books-on-tape reading machine. However, I’ve recently learned that because of copyright issues, Amazon has to get publishers’ permission before automatically making their books available via voice. As an Internet marketer who publishes on the Kindle primarily to publicize my business, I’m all for delivering my message in as many ways as possible.
As I have time to run the K2 through its paces, I’ll let you know if it stands the test of night-after-night of skipping from book to book, jumping ahead and back inside several books, highlighting pages and making lots of notes.
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