Reading is changed forever
Apparently after the US market (which is not that surprising), now the UK customers of Amazon bought more ebooks, than their paper counterparts. It’s good for the environment – maybe some trees can be spared (printing things like the Twilight saga is a waste of paper for sure ;)) and also it means people are building up their ebook libraries, that will be moveable much easier, than real books. Imagine moving to a different apartment and taking just the kindle from your bookshelf. Sure, purists still believe paper is the only right thing to read, but apparently there aren’t many purists in the UK anymore ;).
And with low power consumption and long life of the Kindle, it can easily be charged by solar. Amazon should make the back into a solar panel and we’d have a book that’s “always on”.