Gone Are The Textbooks! Enter The Digital Age!

Amazon has rung the death bell for text books with the introduction of the Kindle, a portable book reader, it is now possible to have all you books on a simple and easily portable device.

The Kindle uses integrated Wifi to connect with local networks or if none of those can be found then the free Sprint Data Network goes into action. Since nothing in life is free Amazon picks up the bill for any use of the Sprint Network. They can afford it to since you will be buying your digital books from them.

You can buy books, subscribe to newspapers and magazines, and access Wikipedia. It's an information hub!

Electronic paper has been in the works for several years now and Amazon is one of the first to begin utilizing it. The screen is very unlike a computer screen. Where reading text on a computer screen can be hard on the eyes the electronic paper is no worse then paper. And since the font size can be manipulated it's easy to adjust for your eyes.

I have always been skeptical of products that used book as a launching platform for sales because I have always seen books as being obsolete. Just as libraries are being used less and less. Why travel to get the info when it's all on the internet? The Kindle bridges the gap between books (compact information) and modern technology. It moves every portion of it's market forward.

Amazon has now opened up a market to offer digital versions of textbooks for students at a fraction of the cost of normal text books. All that is needed is a kindle and all text books can be easily carried.

The Kindle may not be the most amazing piece of hardware to be sold this year but it does represent a huge step forward in eliminating paper books; and more importantly, the waste.

To take a look at the Kindle on Amazon click here.