Imagine carrying 1500 books with you at once. Then imagine they weigh only 10.2 ounces - lighter than the average paperback. Impossible, you say? Not with the Amazon Kindle 2.

With the Kindle 2, you are never without something to read. Finish your last book? Pick out a new one from the available catalog of over 265,000 titles (and growing daily). With its own built in Whispernet 3G wireless network, the Kindle can download your selection in under 60 seconds with no additional wireless fees. Or subscribe to your favorite newspaper or magazine via your Kindle device and have it delivered to you wirelessly each day.

You can get sample chapters of many books to try, before you buy the full book. And, if you keep your eyes open, you can find many free books to download, made available to promote the use of the Kindle platform. Another feature I find useful is the ability to translate your own personal documents to Kindle format and transfer them to your device via USB for free or wirelessly for a nominal per document charge.

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