Who Needs a Kindle?

Amazon.com recently unveiled the Kindle, a "wireless portable reading device" that can store up to 200 books, weighs only 10.3 ounces, and combines your love of reading with your even bigger love of putting your book down so it can recharge for three hours.

We here at Cracked were curious when we first read about the Kindle. "What kind of person would actually need 200 books on them at any one time?"

Then, we stumbled upon this ad. Now we know exactly what kind of person the Kindle was designed for...

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Comedy

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• amazon
• kindle
• parody
• cracked
• ebooks
• book
• reading

[xxwesdogxx]

Am I the only one who, untill the end, thought this was an attack ad on kindle? haha

[SpoonsForks]

@awesomevegan cool story bro

[Hellsconsort]

Does this play audio, and have a headphones socket if it does?

I.e. I would like the option to listen to audio books.

[techhead287]

I have a kindle

[MaanMH]

bible, torah, quran and richard dawkins books...

you're really awesome

thanks for the vid :D

[Dudewheresmybars]

Actually i need a spanish english dictionary wherever i go

[mardfet]

So do you carry around 100's of CDs with you instead of an iPod?

[carlosbtlr]

HAHA, the bible, the quoran, the talmud and some Richard Dawkins books... epic

[2009frankcastle]

WIN A $25 KINDLE GIFTCARD. Like "The Fiction of J. Richard Singleton" on Facebook for further details.

[allxtar]

idiot!! an e book reader means free books!! doesn't mean i'll read it all

[wardy2294]

@MiamiLlama As for Portable gaming, carrying a PSP with one game is equivalent to carrying a book, whereas carrying a PSP with all your games is like carrying a Kindle, which is pointless, because you probably won't even get through 1. As for the price, Kindles are way expensive as a 1 off cost, not to mention that you can't buy cheap second hand books for them! Face it, you do not need to carry a small library! It's consumerism preying on the weak minded.

[wardy2294]

@MiamiLlama No, because listening to music requires an electronic device anyway, so it makes sense to make it smaller and hold more memory. Besides, most people who use iPod's get through more than 1 CD's worth of music in a day (which is basically the equivelant of a book, except books take much longer).