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So, yesterday I downloaded the Kindle for iPhone app. I must say I am thoroughly impressed by Amazon. For a company to go from a giant reseller to a product producer and to have so many thing thoughtout and working as well as they do is truly quite a feat. Things we have come to expect from Apple like on the iPhone having the music fade out and pause when we receive phone calls and then for it to resume afterwards. These are things that make sense, but were absent from the world of smartphones until Apple came to bat. Now Amazon has barged loudly into the ebook game ready to push the book to the front stage once again, just as they first did when they opened. After playing with the app for only 20min I knew I had to have the real device, and so this morning I cashed out some recent stocks that were only losing money and ordered myself a Kindle 2. It should arrive tomorrow.

One thing I noticed while browsing for Kindle books online only moments ago, is that even though I have not yet received my Kindle Amazon has already registered the device to me and I can start sending books to it right now. How amazing is that!!! To have things so organized as to know that this person ordered a Kindle lets add it to their account for them, no questions necessary. So as soon as I fire it up I can already have content ready for it to sync with. I will definitely write up my thoughts on the device after it arrives. I’m looking forward to reading a lot more in the near future. I can already say that I have read more in the last day with the Kindle for iPhone app than I have in months. It is so convenient to just pull out your phone at lunch while your eating and read through a few pages. Then I’ll be able to use my Kindle later that day and all my current page positions will automatically be sync’d between the devices. I’m very excited.