Amazon Updates the Kindle
By Chris Weiss
Amazon will be releasing an update for Kindle software. The v2.5 update brings a variety of new features that Kindle users may or may not love.
Like every other electronic device out there, the Kindle is now more social thanks to the addition of Facebook and Twitter features that let you share parts of books via the social media sites. A similar feature called Popular Highlights lets you view what passages other readers from the Kindle community liked in the book that you’re reading–sounds kind of like when you’d buy a used book in college and have to read through multi-colored highlighter marks.
Other new features include pan and zoom for PDFs, two larger font sizes, password protection, and an organization system for books called Collections.
The new software will be beamed out to Kindle owners next month. [Amazon via Wired]
