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Watch out, iPad: Amazon readies its next Kindle technology - a built-in reading light

May 15, 2012

So far, Kindle users have had to buy an external light to attach to the device to read in the dark - but a new black-and-white model will have a built-in light. full story

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Watch out, iPad: Amazon readies its next Kindle technology - a built-in reading light

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