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The Kindle 2.0 has been compared to a trophy wife, “sleek, Botox-tight and a lot less comfortable than its predecessor”.
The Guardian has had a hands-on testing of the device but says that there a number of niggly functions. Its reporter, Staci D Kramer, describes the text to speech function as “very cool”, adding: “Unfortunately, the first article I picked was from the New York Times Latest News blog about the president's speech to Congress—and the nice man's voice is trained to say O-Bama as in Alabama—not Oh-Bah-Ma as in Bahama. The sound is pretty decent.”
She said that migrating titles onto the device is “as easy as possible”. She said: “Books can be set for download through an owner's Amazon.com archive even before the unit arrives—or they can be managed directly through the device. They can be moved back and forth and so far, multiple copies are working just fine on my multiple Kindles registered to the same account.”