BUY AMAZON KINDLE 2 EBOOK READER AT THE CHEAPEST PRICE

On February 9, 2009, Amazon announced the Kindle 2 which became available for purchase on February 23, 2009.

The Kindle 2 features 16-level grayscale display, improved battery life, 20 percent faster page-refreshing, a text-to-speech option to read the text aloud, and overall thickness reduced from 0.8 to 0.36 inches (9.1 millimeters). The Kindle 2 has 2 GB of internal memory of which 1.4 GB is user-accessible. Amazon estimates that the Kindle 2 will hold about 1500 non-illustrated books. Unlike the original Kindle, Kindle 2 does not have a slot for SD memory cards.

To promote the new Kindle, author Stephen King made UR, his then-new novella, available exclusively through the Kindle Store.

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Users can download content to their Kindle 2 from Amazon and some other Kindle content providers in the proprietary Kindle format (AZW), or load content in various formats from a computer. Kindle Terms of Use forbid transferring Amazon e-books to another user or a different type of device.

Users can select reading material through the Kindle or through a computer at the Amazon Kindle store, and can download content through the Kindle Store, which upon the initial launch of the Kindle had more than 88,000 digital titles available for download, steadily increasing to more than 275,000 as of late 2008. As of July 1, 2009, there are currently over 300,000 books available for download. New releases and New York Times bestsellers are offered for approximately $10, and first chapters of many books are offered as a free sample. Many titles, including some classics now in the public domain, are offered free of charge or at a low price stated to be related to the cost of adapting the book to the Kindle format[citation needed]. Newspaper Subscriptions cost between $5.99 and $14.99 per month, magazines between $1.25 and $3.49 per month, and blogs for $0.99-$1.99 per month.

Amazon charges monthly for RSS subscription to select blogs, even though users may use the experimental web browser to navigate to and read blogs or any other web pages free of charge.

The device comes with electronic editions of its owner's manual and the New Oxford American Dictionary. The Kindle also contains several free experimental features, including a basic Web browser. Users can also play music from MP3 files in random order in the background. Operating system updates are received wirelessly and installed automatically.

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