Amazon has been working on a revolutionary e-book reader for three years and now’s the time they delivered. Personally I think it’s great, but I wouldn’t exactly call it revolutionary. It just mixes and matches existing technology to its advantage, but it does that very well.

The aim of this e-book is to bring a sci-fi style book to your hands that gives you access to any book you want (if you buy it), enables you to email yourself documents to read or pictures to view, all this on the go, in the hospital or while riding the train home.

There are a lot of positive things thrown in. The ability to buy and read a book in under a minute, the fact that it’s thinner and heavier than a 200 pager, it has a nice big display and has an all-round coolness about it. They also seem to be a user friendly bunch at Amazon, giving you free access to Wikipedia through the book.

I only really see one downside (apart from the bad product naming). To me it looks like a bit of an advanced phaser from Star Trek. It looks cumbersome (due to the buttons) and has a sort of “it could fall apart any second” plastic look to it. I don’t know why they couldn’t put in a touch screen for the price tag it has, especially considering that whoever buys this will probably be buying many books from them also.

Looks like a great product, a step in the right direction I think. I will of course only be happy when I have a gadget the size of my Sony-Ericsson W880i which can be folded out into a laptop, or half folded into a Kindle that can be modified to replicate any amount of Ice Tea. Make it so!

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