http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2009/02/09/amazon-launches-kindle-2/

Here’s what I think about it:

The internal memory expansion doesn’t really matter that much; the first Kindle has plenty of space for books, which are very small, and you can add a big SD card. If you use audio a lot it might help; I don’t do that.

Thinner and lighter is nice but the original Kindle is really fine in that regard.

More shades of gray is nice; not a huge deal but nice. I wish that in books that had maps and diagrams, they’d include more of those in the Kindle editions.

Just 20% faster is not a major qualitative change. It’s quite fast enough for me already.

Making the keys smaller is very clearly right, and I would appreciate thata lot. It’s hard to pick up an original Kindle without hitting one of those buttons. I use a cool leather case (TuffLuv) that can hold the Kindle up like a picture frame. My wife has one for hers and uses this all the time.

Text-to-speech is a good idea. It would be very useful on long car drives.

Syncing across multiple Kindles could be useful, since we’re a 2-Kindle family, although we usually read different books.

Battery lasting 25% longer is nice but actually the existing battery lasts a very long time already.

I’m glad to see that Amazon is continuing to improve this excellent product.

There’s also a little matter of book revocation. They can do this, and it bothers me.

Ask KindleNowNow is defunct
Not enough of us were interested
Try it and you will get
a discontinued reply from Amazon

I don’t know that you can move a book
on an SD card to another Kindle
Books are supposedly registered
to a single account

I do have three partners on my account however
and we share books easily
on our individual Kindles
though we are miles apart

Your summary is perfect
Despite my occasional grumbles
with Amazon’s neglect
over control of formatting
which ruins most poetry
and almost anything
graphical or formatical

I ordered my Kindle
in the 1st 6 hours it was available
Had it by the third day
and have never looked back

But I am amazed
that it has caused TV
to be dropped
from my life entirely

One note: I’ve e-mailed a number of documents to my Kindle, and I’ve not been charged the 10 cent fee; and something I read indicated that this has been the case in general. Amazon tells you that there’s a 10 cent fee, but they aren’t collecting it.