Oh goodness. I think I’m in lust. Seriously, I want an Amazon Kindle. It looks phenomenal. Small, powerful, portable, and light, it can hold over 200 titles. It also (and this is the part that really made me go “Ooooh!”) offers free wireless connectivity to the Amazon store from which you purchase the e-books, wikipedia, and an oxford dictionary. All for the low, low price of $399.00.

Yeah. That part kind of killed me, too. But you have to go here and watch the demonstration video they have.

I want this so much more than I want a new ipod. Though, I wouldn’t say no if someone offered to buy me either. Or both. 😉

Do you think this is what might save books and make reading accessible to everyone (once the price of these things comes down) or do you see this as the downfall of the written word? Maybe you’re somewhere in the middle? I certainly never said you had to think in extremes.