Kindle

I love my Kindle. It is so easy to use. However, I don't think it eeds to be one or the other. Books OR Kindle. I still get library books etc.

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Many many thanks to you all for your useful advice - I suspect that a Kindle is coming my way from OH for Xmas!!

I actually prefer reading on my Kindle because I can adjust the font sizes and read without my glasses. Had mine over a year now and would hate to be without it.

I love my kindle, especially for travelling, though I totally agree that it isn't the same as a book. At home, I'd usually choose a book over the kindle. I've used it to buy some classics that I haven't read but fancy trying - if they only cost about 99p I don't feel as if I have wasted money (much!) if I don't enjoy them.

Its excellent for holiday beach reading, you really can manage the screen all day unlike a computer screen and its fine even in bright sunshine. And you can sit on the beach and buy a book you fance reading without moving from your sunbed!

You can adapt books not in Kindle format using an application called Calibre - download free at www.calibre-ebook.com.

Mishap You don't need a Kindle to browse the Amazon Kindle Store and see what is available, and what the prices are like.

Incidentally, Kindle ebooks are in MOBI format, if you are searching elsewhere.

mishap Prices go from free up to over £10, but most are about £2 - £5. You can also get thousands of free books from Project Gutenburg, but most of those are out-of-copyright ones, excellent for classics and "literature" but also for quirky works you would never have come across in a bookshop. I believe there are other free sources, but I am still browsing Gutenburg so have not tried these.
Downloading from Amazon is a piece of cake - possibly too easy, as you can find yourself with a queue of titles waiting for you to read, and several chunks of a few pounds soon add up. As Annobel says, downloading a free sample chapter first is a good move. When you get to the end of that you can buy the rest very easily, and if it doesn't appeal you have wasted nothing..

I love my Kindle. I have last year's model, but not the 3G one. You can order a book on Amazon - one-click - and, as long as your Kindle is on line, it is downloaded almost instantaneously. When you are on line, you can also go straight to the Kindle store on your Kindle. It's worth knowing that you can download a sample of any book free of charge to see what you think of it.

My friend got hers (basic, I think) from Amazon and it was £89. It's just a case of downloading from the Kindle itself and she says it's really easy. I sort of fancied one, and then I thought how much I love the 'feel' of a book! Never say never,though!