Kindle

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I love my kindle more than I thought i would. I have the font set bigger, as less eye strain, easier to read when tired. Am off for week abroad soon, normally I'd pack at leat 4 weighty books, but not this time.

Just one warning, I get an email daily of free books, some are worth reading, many aren't. I was looking last night and clicked Buy on one (with Amazon), and as it went through I realised it was no longer free, was £3.50. I wouldn't have bought it for the price, so went into my account with Amazon and was able to cancel it as an accidental purchase, which I was pleased about.

Hi Sunflower, yes i have a Kindle my wonderfull daughter bought it me as a suprise at Xmas.....it is fabulous..it is the basic model no keyboard but there is one installed within the Kindle if you need to use it.....to download the books from Amazon is easy enough even if you don't have wireless you can download them from your computer via the USB cable. all the instructions are loaded onto the Kindle but you con also get the information online from Amazon....lots of books are Free and the search is fun.go for ti you wont be sorry.

Am a bit of a nitwit technically (my computer, later laptop, has been used mainly for word-processing) and having read all the erudite messages about Kindle, am now more terrified than ever to buy one! Do you need anything else to link it to, or can it be used independently?? Also do not want to find myself paying about £20 to download a book, or only be able to access authors I've never heard of. But getting to the Library gets more painful by the day.

Poesje it really is simple. I do hope you have a wireless connection on your computer, because that makes it even simpler, because your Kindle will talk to your computer. So, if you don't have wireless, see if it can be installed for you.

Apart from that, Amazon is very efficient, and very good value. Think of the complete works of Dickens / Shakespeare etc - all free!

Where do you live? Happy to help.

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It is in fact easy enough for my technophobic husband who gave me a kindle last year. The amazon people help and all you need isan email especially for the Kindle. I download a heap of samples to help me decide what I want to read next from amazon and order from the local library if I can or put the books on a wish list to buy if I can't get them from the library. I bookmark the Kindle daily deal otherwise the computer gets too cluttered. it's worth getting the WiFi kindle as you can download on holiday if you run out of books-i haven't had to do this yet.Go onto the amazon bookstore and see if the kindle books suit you-there is a wide variety as well as free classics

An alternative to 'kindle' is a Kobo they have been around some time but not as well advertised I bought mine from play.com £89 for the touch screen version which the kindle touch is only just coming out at £109 and kobo has a large online book store.

I have downloaded calibre. Does that mean I can transfer books from Smiths and google books?
Has anyone converted books to Kindle that were meant for Kobo?

I have just read all the 4 pages about Kindles. My DH has just retired and keen to treat himself, I have an iPad and he has found out that you can e mail with 3G and WiFi Kindles.
So would you suggest he goes for the one with everything and are they still small and light to hold?
Also jeni, you mention you can read your Kindle book on both the iPad and Kindle, how does that work when you purchase a book ? With only one payment?
Thanks for your advice, friends.

Hi MaggieP!

Your devices "talk" to one another, so when you've bought a book, it's downloaded to your Kindle and to your Kindle app (obviously needs to be installed!) on your iPad, iPod etc. which I do find useful. And, say you've been reading something on the Kindle; when you open the same book on the iPad it will ask you if you want to sync to the last page you were reading on the Kindle...very clever gizmos!

My little Kindle is 3G and Wi Fi, light as a feather and, as I've said before, saves me overweighting my luggage allowances with my body weight in books! So enjoy it.