All this and still a good few months to go until Christmas, what more can we expect in the lead up to what is the busiest consumer spending period. Can you pack around 200 books with you at all times?

The battery life is robust and can return from a single four hour charge, done via the supplied USB 2. Sony has a nice ebook reader comparisonc reader, and you can also download files onto your portable laptop, pocket PC, or iPhone. The wireless connection of Kindle spells both boon and bane for the product. It would be a brave manufacturer who released a device without support for the PDF format.