Kindle 2 - The Next Generation of Amazon Kindle Reader

Kindle advocates (Oprah Winfrey among them) love the sleek pencil-thin design, but there are so many other reasons to enjoy it. The Kindle 2 holds over 1,500 selections for your library - something most people could never house at home with paper books.

You don't have to worry that it's akin to staring at a computer screen because Amazon has ensured the Kindle screen resembles a paper production. There's no glare (even if you're laying out at the beach) - it looks just like printed ink. And unlike reading from a laptop, the Kindle 2 doesn't get too hot and burn you the more you use it.

One thing older people love it that they can alter the text size on their Kindle. When they get a daily newspaper, they have no choice but to don reading glasses to try to make out the tiny print. But a Kindle lets you control text size.

For those of us who love to doodle in the pages of a book, especially non-fiction books, the Kindle 2 has enabled you to be able to make annotations in the margins. But instead of having to scratch out your notes and make a mess of your book, you can edit or delete them since the Kindle 2 is a digital device.

There are four major categories for the Kindle wireless reading device, and there are great buys in all of them. Most consumers have a variety of things they like to read - a particular newspaper, a few blogs, a mixture of fiction and non-fiction books with some magazines to boot!

Blogs are becoming a great source of information that's delivered in real time. You can often log into a blog and find out up-to-date news instead of waiting for the next day's paper delivery service. Blogs downloaded onto your Kindle 2 can be fun, educational, and inspiring.

Newspapers that would be extremely expensive to deliver to your home are a fraction of the price when downloaded to your Kindle 2. If you live in Texas but would love to read the New York Times, you can - and it'll only cost you $13.99 for a subscription.

Books that you can download to your Kindle include a wide variety of genres. Mystery and thrillers, Science fiction, romance, and fantasy make up part of the long list of possibilities. Non-fiction publications are also available and all books take under 60 seconds to download.

Magazines and journals are popular for Kindle enthusiasts. Time Magazine, Newsweek, Fortune, and U.S. News & World Report are some of the best-selling Kindle magazine subscriptions being purchased to date.