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"In a fully lit room or in the sunlight, the Kindle display is perfectly crisp and the glare is minimal making the Kindle 2 a real pleasure to read."

"The Kindle 2 uses "e-ink" technology, which serves to make the letters and words on the screen look more printlike in their appearance. A lot of people, when they first see the screen, are genuinely impressed. The e-ink screen delivers 16 shades of gray and offers user-adjustable font sizes."

"Reading the Kindle 2 over two days of commuting was a pleasure. The display doesn’t induce headaches or eyesores like a computer monitor would; the text is, instead, crisp yet soft and reminiscent of a page in a book."

"The improved graphics with eye-friendly e-ink display complete the package, offering an experience outdone only by a physical book.... The dense, readable display and paperback size allow readers to sink into an author's world just as they do with a physical tome."

"Reading books with the Kindle 2 is easy, but not quite as fluid as on the Sony’s competing Digital Reader PRS-700. In fact, it’s easier to become engrossed in a book and not fumble with controls on the PRS-700."

"With the Kindle 2 I feel like we are just starting to see what e-book readers are capable of. Yes, they can display text for hours on end, but they can also fundamentally enhance the reading process. For example, one feature I found myself using all the time was the dictionary."

"The processor in this model is faster [than the Kindle 1], so the screen refreshes about 20 percent quicker between page turns. All and all, the thing just feels zippier, but it's important to note that while you'd think that a monochrome system would be lightning fast at this point, the Kindle 2 still exhibits some slight lag."

"You can see in the video that page turning is still painfully slow, and would need to be 100 or 1000 times faster to mean anything. Going from Kindle 1 to Kindle 2, the experience stays the same—there are no new convenience features that actually help you read books more easily."

"The screen is the same 6-inch, high-resolution E-Ink display, which has a comforting contrast ratio for reading and uses battery power only when you turn the page. But, while it still can't display color and still can't be read in the dark, its gray-shade graphics are much more detailed."