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A Perk and An Assessment

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My new Kindle Touch. Forgive the sucky picture. It was night, I was using my iPad camera, and I really take sucky pictures. I work in digital publishing. So, though I have my own trusty Kindle 3, now being rebranded as the Kindle Keyboard, I was issued today with this new office equipment. Yep, the Kindle Touch. Of course, I did a little happy dance inside.:) I've been giving the Touch a test run, and here's what I found so far... The Good: It's smaller and lighter. I can secure it with a numerical code. There seem to be more setting options. It's easier to transfer books into folders or collections. It's touch screen! The Not-so-good: The screen is deep, so there's a slight shadow on whichever side the light comes from, and it's a bit distracting. (In the picture, check out the shadow on the right edge of the screen. Sorry, I'm a nitpicker.) The keys on the screen are small. Even if the keys on the Kindle 3 are small, too, at le...