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The new Kindle is OK and all, and an improvement on the original, but Gregory Raiz’s version is way better. The concept design does away with the clutter that still plagues Amazon’s e-book reader and hides it all behind a touch screen.

We love it. The screen is bigger (taking up 80% of the fascia) and the button count is down to a Steve Jobs pleasing three — on/off, page forward and page back. With a touch screen you could probably lose even these last two and just flip the pages by touching the screen as you can do with iPhone e-reader Stanza.

The color screen, though, spoils it. Sure, a shiny, chromatic display would be great for reading a magazine like, say, Wired, but the battery drain would be a pointless outlay for most all-text books.

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