The third generation Kindle is the newest addition to Amazon’s line of e-book reader. This kindle is much more light weight, has a top notch quality screen allowing for  better contrast, has longer battery life that lasts almost a month with the wireless turned off, and most importantly a more affordable price compared to other e- book readers. The six inch Kindle is both lighter and thinner which makes it easier to carry around. The memory storage is also improved even if there is no expansion slot. It has 4GB of internal memory and can store 3,500 electronic books. This Kindle also sports a built in wifi that works best with the experimental WebKit based browser, built in PDF reader containing dictionary lookup ,notes, highlights, and headphone jacks as well as built in speakers. Another improvement on Amazon’s new kindle is faster page turns with page turn on buttons that are quieter. The screen may also be toggled to portrait and landscape mode by manually accessing the menu. And one may also enjoy  the expanded text- speech option in the menu when reading.

Although this Kindle is more accessible due to its thin and light weight design because users may actually carry it around in their back pockets , the e-ink screen demands a source of light during night hours or when one is in a dark room so the effort to carry it around may be senseless. The third generation Kindle is not back lit like the the Kindle DX and other IPads. The e-ink feature of the Kindle which was intended to reduce eye strain when the gadget  is being used in brightly lit areas contradicts the intended effect during dark hours.The new Kindle surely is handier but aside from the new menu buttons and modified joy stick Amazon’s newest Kindle offers pretty much the same functional capabilities as other e- books.