Amazon's Kindle 2 is "the trophy wife - sleek, Botox tight and a lot less comfortable than its predecessor," paidContent's Staci Kramer stated Wednesday in her review of Kindle's latest redesign.

The new K2 has a qwerty keyboard and small control called a "5-way button," and unlike K1, it has a home and menu button.

K2 also has a new talk feature that reads the text aloud, which could be of great benefit to some users, Kramer states. Also, migration to from the old Kindle to the new has been made easy. For example, books can be readied for downloads, even before the K2 arrives, and can be moved back and forth between Kindles registered under the same account, she adds.

Subscriptions are more problematic because an issue cannot be transferred between devices, Kramer states in her paidContent blog. However, as soon as she powered the new device on, she "got a message from CEO Jeff Bezos, a K2 Users Guide and a note explaining how to handle the upgrade from Kindle 1."