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The new Amazon Kindle e-book reader is, in my opinion at least, the perfect product. Certainly, I would freely admit that, as someone who counts reading as one of my main hobbies, I must be pretty much Amazon’s target demographic. Typically, I would expect to read, as an absolute minimum, one book each week – and it’s not so very unusual for me to have one novel, one non-fiction and a fair number of reference books under consideration at any one time.

I don’t think that’s so really uncommon, otherwise traditional print books wouldn’t sell so well, but it does mean that I can spend quite a bit of money on books. Apart from the monetary aspects, my collection of books quickly becomes untidy and space consuming. Every so often, I go through the assorted volumes and, putting the reference books and any particular favourites to one side, have a clear out. More often than not the books get passed on to friends or charity shops - recycling I guess.

I recently got rid of over fifty volumes in advance of moving house. It wasn’t until I looked at them, bagged up and ready to go, that I realised I was looking books with a value of anything between $500 and $1000 - and this was less than twelve month’s worth of reading material.

Now, whilst the Amazon Kindle is a pretty costly item in itself, the downloadable e-books from the Kindle store are usually quite a bit cheaper than the printed equivalent. After all, the publisher will have no printing and distribution costs and there will be no postal charges for Amazon. Even with a saving of just a few dollars per book, quite achievable it seems, anyone who reads on a regular basis would pretty quickly recoup the cost of the device and then start saving money over time.

The potential benefits aren’t just financial. The Kindle 2 has memory capacity for around 1500 e-books whereas the Kindle DX, which will started shipping on June 10 2009, will store 3500. That’s a lot of books – and a fair amount of physical storage space which will no longer be needed in your home or office.

Some users have suggested that the Kindle is a green, eco-friendly, device – based upon the fact that it will save on the usage of paper. Whilst you can see the logic in this argument, clearly some consideration must be given to the materials used in production and the manner of disposal when it reaches the end of its useful life.

The actual benefits achieved will vary from user to user and will probably depend chiefly on how many books are bought per annum. All the same, for regular readers, it seems that the Kindle has a number of distinct advantages which should more than offset the initial cost.

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