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27 November, 2010

During the biggest and hottest sale event of the year, Black Friday 2010, Amazon is selling the second-generation Kindle 2 for $89. The offer is one of Amazon's 'lightning deals,' which is in limited quantities.

DURING THE biggest and hottest sale event of the year, Black Friday 2010, Amazon is selling the second-generation Kindle 2 for $89. The offer is one of Amazon’s “lightning deals,” which is in limited quantities. The Kindle 2 is a great e-reader with a 6″ E Ink display, 3G wireless and 2GB of memory.

Amazon announced on its Facebook page that Black Friday Deal: This Friday, 11/26, you can get our previous generation Kindle for $89! Our previous generation Kindle uses the old E Ink technology (the same E Ink as in the current Nook). Our all-new Kindle uses the latest generation E Ink (Pearl) for 50% percent better contrast, and is available at the everyday low price of ...$139.

The third-generation Kindle is 17% light in weight, 21% smaller in size and have higher storage capacity i.e it can store upto 3500 ebooks as compared with 1500 book capacity of the Kindle 2. Kindle 3 supports additional fonts and international Unicode characters. The Kindle 3 also has a better browser. Kindle Latest Generation memory is doubled to 4 GB.

The Kindle 2 was originally launched in February of 2009 and Kindle 3 dethroned this last August. The Kindle 3 offer a Wi-Fi-enabled model, as well as its battery will deliver up to a month of eBook reading. Kindle, holds a multitude of advantages compared to a regular paper book.