Just wanted to take a second to thank Google for allowing me to make a call to the U.S. from my email for FREE!!!!! It even uses my Google Voice number so it shows up from the Lansing area.

A while ago I bought an Amazon Kindle so I don’t have to haul any books around on deployment. I must say, I am quite impressed with it.

To start, the battery lasts a long time. I can go weeks at a time without charging it. It’s slim, fairly simple to use and easy on the eyes.

UPs:
- Charges your CC without having to login
- Group books together to reduce clutter on the home screen
- Copy PDFs/Books from the computer over to the Kindle
- Free 3G world wide (if you get the 3G version)
- Computer application if you want to read from your laptop/desktop
- Make notes / Bookmark
- Built in dictionary

Downs:
- A bit slow at times
- 3G is not the fastest where I am at.

Overall it was worth the $189 for the Wifi+3G version.