Amazon's Kindle Showing Promise as Means to Access Medical Literature

Thanks to Keith Kaplan for noting this article on FierceMobile: Amazon's Kindle Showing Promise as Means to Access Medical Literature:

One advantage the Kindle has over the iPad, and just about any smartphone, is its free mobile Internet access. "We thought we might be able to exploit this access for another use," Megan von Isenburg, associate director of public services at Duke University Medical Center's library, said at a mobile healthcare conference in Baltimore last month.

With the help of a federal grant, Duke medical librarians converted textbooks and clinical guidelines for use on the Kindle and added functions to search PubMed and the Internet. They gave the devices to various medical students and preceptors for their rotations in primary care. Though the device is much slower than a full-powered computer, it scored high in terms of reliability and usability; 19 of 21 test subjects said they were comfortable using the Kindle in front of colleagues.

This is so cool; I have a Kindle and I love it.  One advantage of the Kindle is the form factor; it is the same [small] size and weight regardless of the content; you can read a 2,000 page clinical textbook on it.  And of course the search capabilities and ability to access the Internet make it far more than a book.