With Amazon's Kindle, it's love at first byte

摘要

It's not that often electronics can change your life - but it happened to me a few days ago, when I bought an Amazon Kindle. If you don't follow consumer electronics, Kindle is Amazon's e-book, a device about the size and weight of a small paperback that stores approximately 200 digital books.Yeah, we've been hearing about the "dawn of the e-book" since, oh, approximately 12 B.C. (when PCs were the Next Big Thing). But Amazon's really nailed it: Not only is the device sleek, polished and easy to use - it's online all the time, so you can purchase books with the click of a button.There's no subscription service (Amazon covers the cost of the wireless network connection). And books are generally flat rate, at $9.99 a pop.