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.

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.