Amazon's Kindle 2 Available Now

Amazon’s new e-book reader, the Kindle 2, is now in stock at Amazon for $360. If you order it by 3:30 Pacific time, you can have one tomorrow, and be reading novels (and even the Gadget Lab) on what looks to be one of the slimmest, most usable e-book readers yet. UPDATE: Wired contributor Steven […]

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Kindle 2

Amazon's new e-book reader, the Kindle 2, is now in stock at Amazon for $360. If you order it by 3:30 Pacific time, you can have one tomorrow, and be reading novels (and even the Gadget Lab) on what looks to be one of the slimmest, most usable e-book readers yet.

UPDATE: Wired contributor Steven Levy reviews the Kindle 2 and finds it a worthy improvement to the first version -- but not quite good enough to usher in a truly paper-free age of e-books.

See also: Amazon's Kindle 2 Slims Down, Adds Audio

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