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Amazon updates its Kindle 2.0 e-book (left) with a slimmer design, a 6-inch 600 x 800 display that provides 16 shades of gray versus 4 shades in Kindle 1 (right), 2GB of memory that holds more than 1,500 books, and 25 percent more battery life.

For more, Larry Dignan's live blog. You can click on any image to enlarge. Kindle 2.0 will cost $359 and is expected to be available to ship on February 24.

Photo credit: Amazon.com

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Looking forward to Kindle 5,000.1
At this rate, they might be reasonably usable by the time
they get to release of Kindle 5,000.1, and well worth a
devalued dollar.... (Read the rest)
Posted by: Professor8 Posted on: 02/12/09 You are currently: a Guest | | Terms of Use
Nice looking but  Azathoth | 02/09/09
It's still too expensive!  HardShell54 | 02/09/09
Thousands of FREE books!  finder@... | 02/09/09
Yes, too expensive!  mustang_z | 02/09/09
Screen is the same size  Speednet | 02/09/09
RE: Seems ok now, but.....  royala@... | 02/09/09
You can create your own eBooks  finder@... | 02/09/09
Viewing common pdf files  hfrucin | 02/10/09
Reda s PDFs and Word Files...  noverge | 02/09/09
RE: (Gallery: Amazon releases Kindle 2.0)  duckdodgers | 02/09/09
Tiny?  finder@... | 02/09/09
Yes, but ...  duckdodgers | 02/09/09
RE: (Gallery: Amazon releases Kindle 2.0)  abartlett2009 | 02/09/09
RE: (Gallery: Amazon releases Kindle 2.0)  wupdike@... | 02/09/09
RE: (Gallery: Amazon releases Kindle 2.0)  Pierrebo | 02/09/09
RE: (Gallery: Amazon releases Kindle 2.0)  prdel1 | 02/09/09
RE: (Gallery: Amazon releases Kindle 2.0)  jhencken | 02/09/09
RE: (Gallery: Amazon releases Kindle 2.0)  max@... | 02/09/09
Kindle 3.0?  bobhog | 02/09/09
RE: (Gallery: Amazon releases Kindle 2.0)  mryan@... | 02/09/09
Looking forward to Kindle 5,000.1  Professor8 | 02/12/09

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