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This is the third article that I have written about the Amazon Kindle and I want to take a moment to explain why. Imagine you’re a mobile executive – you have your Blackberry, laptop, and connect through VPN to your company when you’re away from the office. You probably read a lot. You read a lot of emails, trade publications, news materials, and work-related documents. Some of those documents – statements of works, CONOPS, marketing/business plans – can be lengthy and require you to read every word. Reading off a laptop can strain your eyes. Printing of all those pages is not economical or environmentally friendly. The third option – send it to your Amazon Kindle.

The Amazon Kindle is more than an electronic reading device. Sure you could store your entire library on a small electronic device, easily take that device with you anywhere you are, and with a long battery life, you don’t have to worry about losing power.

The Amazon Kindle is also wirelessly connected. It connects, at no additional charge and with no monthly fees, to the same 3G wireless networks that your Blackberry connects. You can browse the Amazon Kindle Store in the airport or in the taxi and you can buy and download the new book within a matter of 60 seconds.

You can also have your office email you the documents you need to read in a compatible format like Microsoft Word and read those documents on your Kindle no matter where you are. The revolutionary screen technology makes the Kindle like reading from the pages of a physical book. Your eyes will not strain and you can bookmark your location for returning to the same place at a later time. You save on paper and printing costs and you can preserve your laptop battery for those times when you have to connect to the office through VPN.

I am being completely serious when I make the statement that your leadership toolbox needs an Amazon Kindle. You don’t want your competitors to do business more efficiently and effective than you…

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