During my sweep of the LA Times website, a small advertisement caught my eye. It read ‘LA Times Now on Kindle’. In order to appease my curiosity about this rather festive-sounding device, I decided to conduct a little research into this nifty gadget.
Following in the footsteps of the Sony Reader, which condenses approximately 160 digital books into a device ‘smaller than a typical paperback‘, the Amazon Kindle allows the user to download ‘over 245,000 books plus U.S. and international newspapers, magazines, and blogs.’ Read the rest of this entry »
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