Since I'm one of only three people I know that owns a Kindle, I get to weigh in on Kindle 2.
Here's my verdict: I'm not excited.
Not like they did a price drop. It's still $359. Like Apple products, they upped the memory to counteract the lack of price drop, but really... Books aren't like music. You don't fill it as fast. And since Amazon keeps your "library" on back-up, it's not like you can't get something you removed from the device whenever you want.
Reportedly the biggest complaint about Kindle 1 was the page turn buttons and how easy it was to accidentally press them. It wasn't and isn't a huge issue for me. I still have a harder time controlling my iPod wheel.
The major innovation seems to be the text-to-voice feature. A male or female voice will read to you. It's probably gonna sound like a robot and frankly that kinda creeps me out, and I probably wouldn't have used that feature very often except for the initial kick of replacing the genders in first person narratives. A chick reading Lolita? Snicker snicker.
The one thing that probably would've caused a pang of jealousy? A color change. The Kindle still comes only in white. If they came out with a black, you know I would've been all over that. For my techie lust, black is beautiful; white is just too vanilla for me.
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