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A portable e-book device from Amazon.com that provides wireless connectivity to Amazon for e-book downloads as well as Wikipedia and search engines. Using Sprint's EV-DO cellphone network, dubbed WhisperNet, wireless access is free. It also includes a built-in dictionary. With its introduction, Amazon offered 88,000 e-book titles in the Kindle format, including more than a hundred best sellers. Downloads take a minute.

Introduced in November 2007, the Kindle weighs 10 ounces, uses an electronic ink (e-ink) monochrome display and holds more than 200 titles of books, blogs and newspapers. For a fee, newspapers such as The New York Times and Wall Street Journal are downloaded into the Kindle during the night for reading in the morning. Also for a small conversion fee, photos and Word documents can be e-mailed to Amazon and downloaded to the Kindle for viewing.

The Kindle E-Book
Newspapers such as The New York Times can be ordered for overnight delivery to the Kindle and be ready to read at breakfast. (Image courtesy of Amazon.com, www.amazon.com)
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