Lifestyle/Scene - Kindle, Amazon's e-book reader, is hot, but how does it handle? - sacbee.com

Lifestyle/Scene - Kindle, Amazon's e-book reader, is hot, but how does it handle? - sacbee.com

When you buy a Kindle electronic-book reader for $400 from Amazon.com – the only place you can get one – and open the box, the first thing you see printed inside is: "kindle: v.t. 1. set on fire. 2. inspire, stir up. v.i. 1. catch fire. 2. become animated."

That's apparently what Jeff Bezos wanted to do with the very concept of traditional books and how we read them when he introduced the Kindle on Nov. 19. Bezos is the chief executive officer of the diverse online merchandiser Amazon.com, which sells, among other things, a lot of traditional books.