A portable reading device has been talked about for what seems ages… and now perhaps it’s here. The Amazon Kindle.

Released at the end of last year, and currently selling for $359 (US) the “ipod of digial books” allows you to download e-books, books, newspapers and blogs onto the reader. Apparently the device uses e-paper, so it looks and reads like real paper.

So at last there’s a portable reading device to take on the bus, to the beach and into the bath…

That’s great news for bloggers and e-book authors; making their content a whole lot more accessible to the reading public who don’t like to read off their computer screens.

And good news for the environment…. No printing out documents onto paper… just download them to read on the Kindle.