After teasing us for months with rumors and pics Jeff Bezos from Amazon finally decided to officially introduce on the market the anorexic (0.36 inch thick) Kindle 2.

Compared with its predecessor, the Kindle 2 has a longer battery life (up to 25%) and that means that it will last for almost two weeks without screaming for power. Also, the manufacturer ditched the 256MB of memory from the big brother and replaced it with 2GB of storage space.

Thanks to its text-to-speech feature Kindle will read to you and with the help of Whispersync will get automatically get in touch with other Kindles (for now) and with other wireless reading devices (in the nearest future). .

Kindle 2 will wait for its buyers starting February 24^th with a $359 price tag.