Frugal Quack

The Amazon Kindle gets another price discount this year, plus a new look.

Today it was announced that the Kindle has a new crisper display, longer battery life, streamlined profile making it lighter and thinner, plus it now only costs $139. That’s a lot of change in such a short amount of time, but we like it, we like it.

I can only assume that the Nook and Kobo will soon have similar price reductions coming soon, heck we might see an ebook reader hit the $99 price mark before Christmas. Wouldn’t doubt it one bit.

If you like to read, the Kindle is a sure bet because it facilitates the following:

• ability to store hundreds of titles
• portability
• fast access to just about any book ever published
• text to speech
• free ebooks
• 2 day free shipping from Amazon
• lighter profile at 8.5 ounces
• longer battery life (3 weeks vs 10 days)
• WIFI built in
• Native PDF support

Final verdict? Because of this new low price point, we now officially hail the Kindle a frugal gadget.

via Amazon

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Tags: 139, amazon, black, graphite, new kindle, wifi kindle

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