The new (Star Trek-esk) reader that your kids will be using sooner than you think...
Amazon recently announced an addition to its line of Kindles dubbed the Kindle DX. Several weeks ago Amazon released the new Kindle 2 which sports a 6" e-ink display, 1/3 of an inch thick, 3G wireless access, and a slew of other features I'll leave up to you to discover.
The new Kindle 2 and the Kindle DX differ only on the price tag, a larger hard drive and a larger 9.7" screen; making full page documents much easier to read!
But that's not even the best part...
What makes this new device really interesting it that schools like Princeton, Arizona State, Case Western Reserve, Reed, and the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia have all agreed to distribute "hundreds" of Kindle DXs to students this coming fall. Soon enough college students wont have to worry about buying individual text books and lugging them around to class; all their books will be on one device. Publishing companies like Wiley Higher Education, tomes from Addison-Wesley, Longman & Prentice Hall and many more have partnerships with Amazon already setup and ready to go for digital textbooks.
Why couldn't CU Boulder be up with the times like the rest of these colleges!?
I wouldn't mind being on the test group for one of those babies!
Check out the new Kindle DX at the link below:
