Kindle 2: Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device (Latest Generation) has been released! Any Kindle 1 owner will be given first priority in the purchase queue, if their order is in before midnight Feb 10! Anyone waiting on a Kindle 1 will automatically get a Kindle 2, no need to change your order (and no choice about it, either).
has been released! Any Kindle 1 owner will be given first priority in the purchase queue, if their order is in before midnight Feb 10! Anyone waiting on a Kindle 1 will automatically get a Kindle 2, no need to change your order (and no choice about it, either).The Leather Cover is now sold separately ($29.99), so the new Kindle is effectively $30 more than the Kindle 1. A 2-Year Extended Warranty for Kindle 2 is also available and is a bargain compared to the replacement cost if the Kindle breaks due to your own actions (such as by dropping it, drowning it or running over it with your car).
is now sold separately ($29.99), so the new Kindle is effectively $30 more than the Kindle 1. A 
is also available and is a bargain compared to the replacement cost if the Kindle breaks due to your own actions (such as by dropping it, drowning it or running over it with your car).
Lots of new accessories are available, including Cole Haan and Patagonia covers and GelaSkins Protective Skins.
and 
covers and Text to speech capability - the new Kindle can read to you (an experimental feature, which means that it may be buggy and could be taken away), letting you switch back and forth between reading and an audiobook (of sorts), depending on your environment.
Longer battery life this time (25% longer: up to 4 days with wireless on or 2 weeks with it off), seven times the internal storage (approximately 1.4GB available, holds over 1,500 books), but no sign of a replaceable battery or SD card support (so far), with 20% faster page turning than the previous generation, sixteen shades of grey (for better image display) and the new Kindle 2 is thinner than the Apple iPhone (0.36" vs. 0.48")! Page turning "buttons" now are inward flexing, rather than large mechanical buttons and the silver menu bar has been replaced by a "five-way" controller (allowing you to select/highlight by word and look up only one word in the dictionary, rather than an entire line). On/off and Whispernet buttons are now located on the top edge, while speakers remain on the lower back of the unit.Same Sprint Whispernet (now WhisperSync), no wireless hotspots needed or supported, although this is only an issue for those outside the Sprint network (see new map), coverage for WhisperSync now extends to ALL FIFTY STATES!!!
Book selection, of course, continues to increase. Currently with over 230,000 books, including 103 of 110 books currently found on the New York Times® Best Seller list. New York Times Best Sellers and most new releases are still $9.99 (although there are many for less and quite a few, especially non-fiction and technical books, for more). Exclusive to the Kindle is UR by Stephen King, which will release in tandem with the Kindle 2 (now available to pre-order and can be read on your Kindle 1). Also now available is The New Yorker magazine.
magazine.