The follow-up to Amazon's amazingly 80s-styled ebook reader was announced today.

Besides the much-improved Apple-rific stylings, this feature is certainly brand new:

Read-to-Me: With the new Text-to-Speech feature, Kindle can read every book, blog, magazine, and newspaper out loud to you

I don't really go for audio books, but some may really enjoy it. That is unless the voice synthesizer sounds like "Emily" from the Garmin Nuvi.

Kohjinsha has been making some tiny PC Laptops for a while now, as I discovered from my visit to the Akihabara district in Tokyo this past April.

I received the new SC3 one week ago today from Direct From Japan. This is my first Kohjinsha, and my first UMPC to boot. There are a couple of reviews out there already (Pocketables, UMPCPortal) that take the machine to task on specs and battery life so I will list out my generally unscientific impressions on the SC3 after a week of use.

I bought the Sony Reader (PRS-500) a couple of years ago while on a business trip. I had no idea the product existed at the time, neither was I in the market for an eBook reader at all.

I played around with a display unit in the store, and the real sucker punch came when I found one of the books that came preloaded was a Star Trek eBook (what a nerd). I had already read the book, but the idea of downloading eBooks came rushing back to me.