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Engadget (subscribe) recently had an in-depth look at the Amazon Kindle 2 which is due to be released on February 24th, 2009.

The original model of the Amazon Kindle was the first successful e-book reader due to Amazon’s Whispernet using the Sprint EVDO network. This allowed users of the Kindle to download books wirelessly anywhere rather than just in Wi-Fi hotspots.

Previous e-book readers by manufacturers such as Sony have failed to reach a market saturation as much as the Kindle has. This has been due to relatively poor readability and

The size of the latest model has been reduced to a thickness of 0.36 inches (9.1 millimetres), and is 20 percent faster at page-refreshing, now features a text-to-speech option to read the text aloud, and has an improved dictionary function. It also now has 1.4GB of user storage — enough to hold over 1,500 e-books.

Are you user of the Amazon Kindle? Are you pre-ordering the Kindle 2? Be sure to make a video review and link it up below when it’s on Viddler.