The Amazon Kindle—a \"new and improved\" version of which has just been released--comes on like a technology for our times: crisp， affordable， hugely capacious， capable of connecting to the Internet， and green. How could one argue with any of that? Or with the idea， which I've heard voiced over and over， that it will make the reading of texts once again seductive， using the same technology that has drawn people away from the page back to it.