Amazon’s New E-Reader

With Amazon’s flashy (or should I say AJAX-y) new e-reader you can read your purchased books online, print pages, add notes, bookmark pages, search for words or phrases in the book, view single pages or continuous pages by scrolling, and zoom in and out. The greatest thing about it, besides its sleek look and ease of use, is that you can upgrade your physical books to a digital version. If you buy a book that is in the Amazon Upgrade program, you are given the option to upgrade to online access at the end of the purchase process. Nice! Too bad it’s not a free upgrade…still, the one book I had available to upgrade was only $1.28. Not horrible. You can see the new e-reader in action here.