Amazon Kindle 3G/Wi-Fi, graphite
(With optional protective cover and swing-out LCD light)

Just as Apple's iPod wasn't the first MP3 player, Amazon wasn't the first company on the block to release an e-book reader; NuvoMedia's RocketBook and the early Sony Readers both beat the Kindle to market. But it's hard to argue that the online retailer's Kindle isn't the iPod of the e-book reader market. The Kindle has helped usher the e-book reader from gadget curiosity to a burgeoning mass market device, all in less than three short years. And now, amid a much more competitive market, Amazon is debuting the third-generation Kindle.

Key specs:

• 6-inch e-ink display.
• 21 percent smaller and 15 percent lighter (8.7 ounces)than previous Kindle.
• Screen offers better contrast than previous models.
• Smaller page-turn buttons that are also quieter (clicking noise is nearly silent).
• Faster page turns.
• 4GB built-in memory (stores around 3,500 e-books).
• Improved battery life (up to a month with the wireless turned off). 
• Comes with Wi-Fi and free 3G wireless to download books from anywhere with cell coverage
• New "experimental" WebKit-based browser works better than previous browser, especially using Wi-Fi.
• Up to four weeks of battery life from sealed-in battery (wireless turned off).
• Expanded text-speech options. New text-to-speech-enabled menus allow you to navigate the Kindle without having to read menu options. You can not only listen to books aloud (certain ones, anyway), but also content listings on the home screen, item descriptions, and all menu options.
• New built-in PDF reader, with new dictionary lookup, notes, and highlights, and support for password-protected PDFs.

Already Loaded:

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (Eleventh Edition)

WordNet 3 (Largest English Dictionary and Thesaurus)

Charlotte's Web by E. B. White

Stuart Little by E. B. White

Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White

Grimm's Fairy Stories by Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm

Household Tales by Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm

Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen

Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie

American Fairy Tales by L. Frank Baum

The Complete Wizard of Oz Collection, all 15 books by L. Frank Baum

Celtic Tales Told to the Children by Louey Chisholm

Welsh Fairy Tales by William Elliot Griffis

Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks by William Elliot Griffis

The Complete Works of Charles Dickens

Works of Lewis Carroll

The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis

Complete Works of Mark Twain

William Shakespeare Complete Works Ultimate collection

Jane Austen: The Complete Collection

Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling

Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (150+ works)

The Arabian Nights: The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night by Richard Burton

The Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer