Amazon announced today that they’ve dropped the price on their terrific Kindle e-book reader by another $30, putting the new price at just $259. As I’ve written several times, this is one of my absolute favorite gadgets and I highly recommend it to anyone who loves to read. It’s like an iPod for books, with free wireless connectivity to the Amazon store, allowing you to select from over 350,000 books and download them in seconds.

And there’s also good news at last for people outside the United States: your wait is over, with the announcement of the international wireless edition of the Kindle, offering 3G connectivity in more than 100 countries. This version will be available October 19th, but Amazon is taking pre-orders now.

Note: If you buy a Kindle by clicking a link at LGF you help support us; we get a small piece of the purchase price as part of the Amazon Associates program. (But I’d recommend this wonderful gadget even if that weren’t so.)

For my full reviews of the original Kindle and the Kindle 2, see:
Review: Amazon Kindle
The Kindle 2 Review