Books are still those things you read quietly in your privacy. They are still those old ways of printing someone’s writings and they still have the same specific smell. These are some things that neither Kindle nor Kindle 2 will be able to change. Yet, they do manage to make the e-books look pretty interesting.

Kindle 2 began to be released and sold in markets on Monday, at the price of $359 and makes a more interesting model that the one which had been released in November 2007. Still, by using such ways of reading a good fashionable e-book, you might find yourself inside the market that treats its customers as some potential thieves.

For using such an exquisite way of reading a book nowadays, you must pay both for the machine you read on and for every book you order on Amazon.com. Kindle 2 is made in such a way that you can’t but fall in love with its technology from the moment you first see it. While the original Kindle had many sharp angles, too small and too big buttons, the Kindle 2 appeared to be slimmer and just a third of an inch thin.

Its design is what makes Kindle 2 some kind of a friendly machine you can use and sometimes forget that you’re using it. An interesting thing at the new model is that the buttons that help you moving the pages up and down fall neatly under your thumbs so you just don’t have to take up entire sides of the device.

Also a little and cute joystick helps you navigate around the screen by only tapping it. So you won’t have to roll a dial or to move an indicator up and down. The “e-ink” technology of Kindle is now introduced in a new and faster version. While you wait for the page to be changed, that is a second or so, the screen flashes a photo-negative image of itself.

Kindle 2 displays 16 shades of gray and the photo of the book doesn’t look like an old and photocopied print. The great storage capacity will attract you too because the Kindle 2 has 1.4G on which it can hold 1,500 books from Amazon. Besides Kindle, this new version also has an SD card through which you can store much more.

The battery on Kindle 2 is said to last 25% more than the one at the previous model, according to officials as Amazon. This means you can use the Kindle 2 for more than 4 days, which is optimistic. The machine can also read a book aloud through a synthesized voice and the device’s minimal appearance works quite well.

You can buy e-books on Amazon for Kindle 2 through wireless data connection, which is the simplest way. There are almost 241,000 Kindle books on Amazon, besides the 31 newspapers, 22 magazines and the 1,280 blogs. There are some interesting books that are only for print, but maybe Amazon and the creators of Kindle 2 will think about that the next time.