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Hands-on with Amazon’s Kindle 2.0

By Reuters Staff
February 9, 2009
Amazon.com | books | Kindle | wireless

Online retailer Amazon.com unveiled a slimmer version of its Kindle digital book reader on Monday, with more storage and faster page turns.

Reuters’ Franklin Paul had a chance to see the new unit in action, as Laura Porco, Director, Kindle Books, demos its text-to-speech and buy on the fly features.

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Feb 9, 2009
9:31 pm UTC

I like how there’s competition now, like from the Plastic Logic reader and Sony’s product. At least we have more options this time around.

http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/tech nology/2009/feb/Amazon-to-Unveil-Kindle- 2-0.html

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Feb 25, 2009
5:11 am UTC

the Kindle reminds me of something i saw in an old school Star Trek episode, which is a good selling point… it’s a bit expensive tho

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