Here are my impressions of the Kindle 2.

The page turning and over all responsiveness it noticeably better than the Kindle 2. It makes a big difference to be able to flip pages with practically no delay.

Kindle 2′s five position track lever is significantly better then Kindle 1′s up-down track wheel. On the Kindle 2 the interface for choosing sections and articles within the New York Times is much better. The thought that went into the new user interface of the Kindle 2 is so outstanding, that it makes reading the newspaper much better.

The Kindle 2′s instant access dictionary is a great improvement over Kindle 1. On Kindle 2 the definition appears on the bottom of the screen automatically of whatever word you have put the cursor in front of. And unlike the Kindle 1, the definition on the Kindle 2 shows the how to pronounce the word (when you click on the definition to get the full definition).

Kindle 2 text to audio feature is wonderful. This morning I listened to the New York Times with my eyes closed until I was awake enough to open my eyes. Then for a while I listened to the Kindle 2 read me the news while I watched the corresponding text on the screen. Toggling the audio feature is simple. All you do is press the same two keys that on the Kindle 1 were the keys that toggled the screen saver. The stereo speakers on the Kindle 2 are very good. The sound quality was excellent, even with the Kindle 2 leather cover attached to the Kindle 2.

I consider my investment in the Kindle 2 a good one. Last night before retiring I gave my Kindle 1 to my significant other and showed her how to use it. We will be able to share the same books on both Kindles. Any book she orders on the Kindle 1 appear in the “archives” folder on my Kindle 2 and vice-versa. I can click on any book on my Kindle 2 “archives” folder and it copies (not moves) that book from the Kindle 1 to my Kindle 2. When my significant other buys a book on the Kindle 1, it is billed to my credit card, the one tied to my amazon account.

The Kindle 2′s 16 shades of grey scale (instead of the 4 shades of grey on the Kindle 1) make the pictures much nicer to view. For example, the cartoons in New Yorker Magazine look great on the Kindle 2.

In summary, I recommend upgrading from Kindle 2. It’s fantastic. I’m already bonded to it.

So, if you have anything really confidential in your e-mail, well, you might want to think twice about using this service.

It is really one of those many situations in our business where you have to go with the lesser of several evils and in this case the spam was so out of control that it was taking up too much of my time trying to manage the e-mail on my server.

The Gmail spam filter is really good, and it does not require someone having to send an e-mail back to be an approved sender, it does not require you to wash your mail through a 3rd party service before you get your mail, and it will save all the e-mails you send and receive online if you tell it to keep copies up there. Also, if you are reading your mail on your cell, you don’t have to waste time on the spam downloading or weed through it.

I figured it would take me some time to fill up my 7gb if I never deleted any mail at all since my Outlook is taking up about 2GB now.

You do still need to log in periodically to check your spam filter because at the end of its one-month life span it is automatically deleted. I have found a few legitimate e-mails stuck up there in the spam filter.

Also, It has a great vacation responder that several clients have used.

If you do want to receive and send e-mail on your cell, but want to keep copies of your e-mail, you can keep your Outlook settings for POP and then enable the IMAP feature to use with your phone (this is actually the recommended setting for the cell phones).

This is a great way to use flash in your websites as you can add a description of your flash object in your html and it will help with search engine optimization.

It completely eliminates the need to use the embed tag so your pages will validate to the w3c standards too.