Amazon Kindle book reader interest
For $399, from next week, you can have the new AmazonKindle book reader, ready to get some [up to 200] of the available 88,000 titles wirelessly downloaded ready for holiday season reading – turn off the wireless and the batteries will last a week.
Interesting that it is not a wifi device:
Unlike WiFi, Kindle utilizes the same high-speed data network (EVDO) as advanced cell phones—so you never have to locate a hotspot. – No monthly wireless bills, service plans, or commitments—we take care of the wireless delivery so you can simply click, buy, and read.
Get stuck on some of the concepts in the new e-book you are reading? – Turn on the wireless and check out Wikipedia!
Includes free wireless access to the planet’s most exhaustive and up-to-date encyclopedia—Wikipedia.org.
Talk about blurring the edges between devices, you’ll probably be making phone calls on it next 
If, as Amazon predict, these devices will end up everywhere how long before the first librarian is presented with one along with the request to check out the library’s copy of Harry Potter on to it?
November 23rd, 2007 at 12:04 pm
This review on Amazon already mentions the inability to read ebooks from their local library as a ‘bad’ point (in a very positive review)
“I expected to be able to download ebooks from my local library (for free) and read them on my Kindle”
http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A2PTYGISR56RN9/ref=cm_cr_dp_auth_rev?ie=UTF8&sort%5Fby=MostRecentReview
October 7th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
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