http://www.amazon.com/kindle The Amazon.com "Kindle" as of 2009 was the rebirth of the eBook reader hand-held device as a tablet-type computer. As with 1-2 previous tablets, the Kindle allows some hand-writing as well as displayed-button presses by-hand on the touch screen. This was the first new device of this type since the Apple xxxx of 19xx, which was withdrawn as an Apple product in 19yy apparently because of the very high error rates of the hand-writing recognition software. The Kindle display is black-and-white. The Kindle 1.x holds several 100 novel-sized books in it's internal solid state storage. (EXACT NUMBER OF PAGES NEEDED.) Amazon deployed Kindle 1.0 with it's own proprietary "Whispernet" wireless connection to the Internet from which Kindle 1.0 users could download eBooks purchased online to their Kindle device. (NEED DETAILS OF WHISPERNET.)