I received my Kindle 2 yesterday. Becky liked how lightweight it was, but she prefers the button layout of the Kindle 1 — at the least, she’d like a previous button on the right side, and she liked having the SD card slot to store more books. The refresh rate and quality of the screen was higher, but she decided she’ll stick with her year-old one.

I had trouble finding a lot of long tail books. Feel free to request them for the Kindle: Amazon pays attention to these requests and will bring them to the publishers. Here are some of the titles I’ve requested already:

• The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary, One Vol. Edition
• Sundiver (The Uplift Saga, Book 1)
• Earthclan ~ Startide Rising and The Uplift War
• Brightness Reef (The Uplift Trilogy, Book 1)
• Infinity’s Shore (The Uplift Saga, Book 2)
• Heaven’s Reach (The Second Uplift Trilogy #3)
• The Postman (Bantam Classics)
• Earth
• The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
• The Mote in God’s Eye
• The Gripping Hand
• Lucifer’s Hammer
• Heavy Weather
• The Forever War
• The Shockwave Rider
• Rainbows End
• Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications