e reading - the future of reading

The future of reading has just taken a new step. I recently purchased one of these items as slowly I am turning the tide towards all things modern and decided to see which was the best ereaders. I have now rid my vinyl collection, CD's are being burned and put on the ipod and thus making the CD redundant and now it seems the books and newspapers are getting the same treatment. The Study is looking more empty each time I visit. The New Amazon Kindle has proved to me and possibly some doubters that this is in for the long haul and things can only improve.
Now on its third guise, the Kindle has evolved into not only the best e-book readers on the market. This to me has been achieved by the improvements made and more critically the price is now affordable to tempt that floater ( someone like me!)
When reviewing this there is little difference between the second and third generation. They retain the same  six-inch displays and full isolation Qwerty keyboards, but in reality important upgrades have been made in nearly every area. For a start, the new Kindle is 21 percent smaller (190 x 213 x 8.5mm) and 15 percent lighter (247g) than the Kindle 2,  but for me the big change is that the Kindle 3 storage has doubled to 4GB, capacity enough for up to approximately 3,500 books. For me that would clear an entire room all on a hand held device.
One big advantage is the Kindle excels in comparison to its rivals is its multi-platform Whispersync synchronisation service. It's built into Kindle apps for ios (iPhone, iPod touch, iPad), Android, BlackBerry OS, PC, Mac and even web browsers. In a nutshell you could be reading from your iPhone on the way to work, switching to your laptop over lunch, back to the iPhone on the way home and picking up your Kindle in the evening without ever losing your place.
With the launch of Kindle 3 more ebooks are available in UK stores and with Newspapers and blog feeds momentum is taking over and now there is over 400,000 books avaialble to purchase and over 130 newspaprs and I have found purchasing content very smooth and some of the Kindle applications will have free information or trial subscriptions to give you a flavour of the future. i
But for me the price is exceptional. The Wi-Fi only version of the Kindle 3 retails for just over  £100. less than half the price of many rivals, while the 3G+Wi-Fi model costs around the £150 mark. The latter is a premium worth paying for if you're an international traveller, since it includes free global data use for the lifetime of the device.
For me this is a life changing product and is having the same effect that iPod did for digital music. At first there is resistance but given time and sometimes we do have little then this gadget is a time saver and can be used anywhere.