You no longer have to buy a Kindle or give Amazon.com any money in order to access the bulk of Kindle content and features, thanks to a new application (download here) released by the Seattle-based book giant today which allows you to read, highlight, and bookmark e-books Kindle-style on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Just last month, Seattlest got to handle our first Kindle; its owner had to gently inform us that the first-generation version did not in fact have a touch screen after a full minute of watching our grimy fingers scooting along the surface in vain. If you have one of the old Kindles and don't want to invest in a new one just for the touch screen feature, now you have options. iPhone-owning readers: will you be downloading this app? [MvB: Just did.]

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MvB: Me too. Let's see if this is the gateway drug that spurs me to invest in a genuine Kindle in the near future.
Kinda disappointed by the app's "dumb terminal" nature so far--makes you go to Safari if you want to buy a book or magazine. Also, I suspect that my existing New Yorker, Harper's, and Atlantic print subscriptions don't mean I can just "add" them to Kindle. *sigh*