Five Things I Love About My Kindle

I'm wild about my new Kindle

The Amazon Kindle may be one of the best birthday presents I’ve received. Here’s why.

1. You can use it to surf the Internet at 3G speeds for free (it’s much faster than my BlackBerry 8900 on the T-Mobile network)
2. The display is easy on the eyes — I can read materials for hours
3. Amazon lets you download two chapters of any book to let you decide in advance if the book is worth buying and subscribe to news portals and blogs for free for 14 days
4. It’s easy to increase and decrease the text size in any document
5. The text-to-speech function works great, allowing you to listen to books on tape or any of the materials you download through the Kindle store

My take? Although I initially had doubts, the Kindle is one of the coolest toys I’ve owned. It’s become an indispensable part of my daily four-hour commute to work.