Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader is a really good product. The large screen, wireless network and print-like resolution make it a perfect gadget for those who want to combine old-fashioned reading with new-fangled technology that allows you to store multiple books, magazines and newspapers on a single device.

The Kindle has also done very well in the market, leading to the Kindle 2, released earlier this year.  The main downside to the Kindle, and Kindle 2, is the price.

Well, Amazon has done something about that, marking down the Kindle 2 to under $300.

The new price represents a $60 cut, especially significant in this economy. And the Kindle 2 includes some nice upgrades from the original. Some of the big ones include a better screen that displays text and images more clearly; more memory, for more documents; and a huge increase in the types of documents it can display, including PDF, HTML, TXT, JPEG, GIF, PNG and BMP, among others. What all those acronyms mean is that the Kindle 2 can handle all types of graphics and a wider range of text documents.

There are hundreds of thousands of free books available for the Kindle 2, and that number is increasing all the time. Add into that the fact that there’s no monthly subscription to pay, and the Kindle 2 looks like an even better value.