The Amazon Kindle Reader

The Kindle, savior of the environment, bane of the book printing industry.
Ever since the computer screen left monochrome, the buzzword "paperless society" has just been nothing more than a cliche. But now comes the Kindle as the ultimate enviromental answer to newspapers, books and the JC Penney catalogue

It feels more like a book than an electronic device. The Kindle reader reads like a book too with no backlighting so no glare like other electronic displays. It actually displays the ink particles electronically so it reflects light like ordinary paper. Unlike a real book however, the Kindle can hold more than 200 titles and features a built-in dictionary and wireless access to ten of thousands of blogs, magazines, and newspapers.

Kindle Specifications

The Kindle screen measures 6 inches diagonally, with a resolution of 600x800 pixels. The technology is "4-level grayscale electrophoretic" okay that means it doesn't use backlighting to show characters but reflection like normal paper. It weighs a bit more than 10 ounces which is still a lot less than most laptops (joke). At about 5 inches by 7.5 inches by less than an inch, it won't fit in your pocket but it will fit more into most women's purses.
It was 256 megs of storage with 180 available and 64 megs of RAM. A SD memory card slot officially supports up to 4GB in size, so you can read "The Stand" by Steven King or my last bosses new "efficiency and productivity proposal" (Joke #2).
Okay, the important stuff, how long does the darn battery last? According to Eckipedia, the Kindle battery lasts two days with wireless on and one week with wireless off. So it should last through most plane flights unless you're flying American Airlines. Fortunately, the battery will fully charge in ONLY 2 hours, so get into a waiting lounge that has a power outlet.
A USB 2.0 port allows you to connect the Kindle like a flash drive to your computer so here is the magic. Convert your favourite reading material to .txt files and download to your Kindle and there you go.
Mind you, I would do that before the big lobbying groups get the laws changed again so that every darn piece of literature going back two thousand years is copyrighted and download ANYTHING to your Kindle is made illegal unless you pay coin to ABC Inc.
Sure, that's not going to happen, I'm just kidding
Oh yeah, one more thing about the Kindle, it runs on Linux.