Kindle - Amazon's e-book

What is kindle?

Kindle is Amazon's digital or e-book. Kindle can replace hundreds of books, making it a very "green" product.

What's the big deal? You can read everything on the laptop?

Yes you can, but Kindle is much lighter, does not need to connect to Wi-Fi to get updates or download and has a screen specifically designed for reading. I don't know about you, but I get really tired after a few minutes of reading on my computer.

Currently, you can download books from Amazon, paying as less as 10$ for a best seller. One of the better offers of Kindle is that you don't pay for the connection/downloads. You only pay for the right to download the book.

So?

The interesting question is whether this e-book (or one of his descendants) will be able to do to regular books what the digital camera did to film camera and what the Wikipedia is doing to regular encyclopedias. It will not be a big surprise if our children will go to school with a single Kindle, holding all materials for all lessons. That's certainly much better than our sour backs from the heavy bags we had to carry around...