Title: Not Ready for Prime Time
Product review: The new Kindle is regarded as an improvement over the first version. In my opinion it is still a long way from being a desirable product.The screen is small - smaller than a paperback - and lacks contrast, which makes it harder to read than a book. The one book I downloaded, a Robert B. Parker novel, had wide spaces between paragraph and thus required about twice as many pages. Which means you have to push the button to flip pages every 10 seconds or so. And the pages flip with an odd, jerky movement.The Kindle now lets you display Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Word files. You have to e-mail them first to a web-site, which converts them to the Kindle format and sends them back to you. The result is less than impressive. The two files I tried were badly mangled, with illustrations in the wrong places or blacked out and text with special characters unreadable.I am returning my Kindle and I'm going to stick to reading books for a while longer.
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