Notes in the Margin Weblog

State of the Art – Amazon.com’s Kindle Goes From Good to Better – NYTimes.com:

Starting today, there’s a new Kindle. Amazon calls it the Kindle 2, but Kindle 1.1 would be more like it; the changes are fairly minor. Fortunately, they’re exactly what was needed to turn a very good reader into an even better one.

New York Times technology reporter David Pogue weighs in on the new Kindle reading device from Amazon.

You can read Amazon’s description of Kindle 2 here.

Do you have a Kindle? If so, what do you think of it? If you don’t already have one, do you want one? Do you think it would/will change your reading habits?

Flexible electronic books to hit market soon – tech – 23 February 2009 – New Scientist:

GADGET-makers have long promised us a flexible electronic book, but actually producing a robust, bendy screen has proved tough – until now.

Plastic Logic, a display technology company based in Cambridge, UK, says it will launch the first flexible electronic book in January.