

This means the Kindle is as comfortable to read as any book or magazine, while still retaining all of the most useful features of reading on a tablet. Rather than showing text on a self-illuminating screen, the Kindle uses a special e-ink display illuminated by surrounding light, giving it the appearance of ordinary, physical paper.


The Kindle might look like a regular tablet, but like all e-readers it uses a completely different type of display technology.
