Amazon’s Kindle has blown away the competition, becoming the most popular e-reader on the market today. Instead of piling on unnecessary features and wasted hardware, the philosophy driving the Kindle focuses on presenting a sleek, trim device, capable of delivering a great reading experience at a price almost anyone can afford. The Kindle 3, now known as the Kindle Keyboard, might lack some of the novelties found on other e-readers, but it delivers where it counts.

Design of the Amazon Kindle 3

Instead of using a full color LCD display which would only waste battery life and suffer glare in bright locations, the Kindle 3′s e-ink display draws only a trickle of power and effectively mimics a printed page. With 4 GB of internal storage, the Kindle 3 can store over 3,000 average length books, which provides years of reading without ever having to delete a single e-book.

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Amazon’s Kindle has blown away the competition, becoming the most popular e-reader on the market today. Instead of piling on unnecessary features and wasted hardware, the philosophy driving the Kindle focuses on presenting a sleek, trim device, capable of delivering a great reading experience at a price almost anyone can afford. The Kindle 3, now known as the Kindle Keyboard, might lack some of the novelties found on other e-readers, but it delivers where it counts.

Design of the Amazon Kindle 3

Instead of using a full color LCD display which would only waste battery life and suffer glare in bright locations, the Kindle 3′s e-ink display draws only a trickle of power and effectively mimics a printed page. With 4 GB of internal storage, the Kindle 3 can store over 3,000 average length books, which provides years of reading without ever having to delete a single e-book.

Battery Life of this E-Reader

Battery life is another huge plus with the Kindle 3. With WiFi disabled, users can read on the Kindle 3 for months without recharging. Compared to a battery life in hours for other consumer electronics, most e-readers last a long time. Unfortunately, the Kindle 3 doesn’t include a backlight, so users can’t read in the dark.

Available Content for this E-Reader

Amazon’s online store is home to more than a million books, magazines, and other publications. Many books are only two or three dollars, and e-books in general promise huge savings over print copies. Newer titles tend to sell for $10 or $15, but they’re still cheaper than hardcover copies. Of course, users can transfer their own e-books onto their Kindles as long as the files are in a common format like PDFs.

Ease of Use of the Kindle 3

Using a Kindle is simple. There’s really no other way to put it. From the home menu, users can quickly open up their e-books, returning to the last page they read if they’re already halfway through it. With a number of highlighting, searching, and notation features, every Kindle 3 is perfect for students. Flipping through pages and chapters is a breeze, and every e-book sold through Amazon has already been formatted to make full use of these features.

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