Amazon Kindle 2 Review

Posted by Jennifer Wang On March - 7 - 2009

The Kindle 2 was released by Amazon on Feb 23, 2024 and has many improvements over the original Kindle.Amazon Kindle 2

These improvements include:

  • Better battery life
  • 20% faster page refresh speed
  • Text-to-speech
  • Thickness reduced from 0.8 to 0.36 inches
  • Storage; can hold 1500 books compared to 200

Details:

Type Candybar e-book reader
Capacity 2 GB
CPU 532 MHz
Display
6″ diagonal
Weight
289 g
File Formats Kindle (AZW), TXT, AAX, MP3, unprotected MOBI, PRC, PDF, HTML, DOC, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP

The Kindle 2 would be suitable for you, if:

  1. You commute to work on a train or bus and enjoy spending time reading
  2. You travel a lot and are fed up with having to purchase printed books at the airport (not to mention how much space they take up)
  3. You just plain read a lot of books!
  4. You’re a student and want to save money on textbooks (who wouldn’t? )

Various opinions from Amazon users:

Ben C. Hobson - I love reading the newspaper every day, but reporters love to push the boundaries of our vocabularies, but the Kindle 2 dictionary is right there to keep us reading, and make sure we know exactly what we are reading so we don’t misinterpret anything. The improved dictionary lookup is amazing.

Gadget Queen - I have a tremendous volume of Kindle content (public domain and Amazon). I discovered that I could not directly transfer from my computer backup for Kindle 1 to the new K2 (why my backup is on the computer is addressed later in this review). All my content had to be reformatted by Amazon and re-downloaded from their site specifically for and to the Kindle 2 (I am NOT in a Whispernet area). Major pain. Major time-investment. Major inconvenience. Major turn-off.

Kacheek - Sleeker look and feel (it feels solid in your hands), sharper screen, no longer accidentally depressing the next page button by accident and having to find your place in the book again…you can read about these from various sources)
- Page loads are much faster. I can feel that the delay between pages is much less. Only issue is I need to recalibrate now-in general, I try to anticipate how much time it will take the next page to load, and when I’m two lines from the bottom, I would hit the next page button. Now I need to push the button later.
- Dictionary is improved. Now you can highlight a word and it automatically gives you a definition at the bottom of the screen.

I hope this review was helpful! I personally like reading as many reviews as I can before purchasing a product, so I’d recommend you find out more by reading Kindle 2 reviews at Amazon.

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5 Responses to “Amazon Kindle 2 Review”

  1. Rajeev says:

    I’m a student and have been thinking of getting a Kindle, but I’m not sure which one would be best for me. I’m leaning towards the Kindle 2 as it’s more portable than the Kindle DX (I can just throw it in my back pack). Any recommendations?

  2. Leo Charles says:

    dear, i am living in jordan. can i use kindle 2 in jordan? can i use it for reading emails ? can i download ebooks from the internet besides those in amazon.com? Are there any books in other languages. thank you

  3. Jim Swanson says:

    Leo, good questions!

    The wireless connection for the Kindle 2 and Kindle DX unfortunately only works in the United States. This is because it uses the data network from a US company called “Sprint”. You can still use your Kindle to read books, magazines, and newspapers, but you’ll have to first download these to your computer and then use a USB cable to transfer them to your Kindle. Reading emails wouldn’t make much sense because there’d be no wireless internet access.

    There’s plenty of websites besides Amazon to download ebooks from, you can start by clicking “Free Ebook Downloads” in the menu at the top-left.
    If you’re looking for other languages, I’d recommend Googling “Arabic ebooks” (as an example).

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