Kindle2

Well, well, well Kindle2 arrived in its wonderfully packaged box and it to keep it short and sweet the device amazes me. The Sony Reader was great - the Kindle2 is much better! It takes all the features that the Sony lacked and added them, plus more. The delivery system is flawless and takes out the hassle of the Sony site - plus they had the book I was looking for - "Tinkers." I was able to buy the daily NY Times for 75 cents and start reading it 30 seconds later. I found a word I didn't know and the included Oxford dictionary had the definition for me instantly. I found a quote I liked and was able to clip it virtually for later perusal. Yes, Jeff Bezos and his team are geniuses - and yes, I'm more scared then before with just my Sony...the ten year window of pure bookselling might just be shrinking into the 5 year range. But that said, the pure volume of wonderful novels still astounds me - I find a new ones in our boxes, via twitter, on blogs, and of course through good old word of mouth. How we buy and read them may change but I think the written word is thriving. This pleases me despite all the other chaos in the book industry.