Talk to me about Kindles please

Once your book is on your kindle you can read it where ever you are.

You only need wifi to buy the book from Amazon.

You just need to keep your kindle battery charged up, it will go for ages on a charge, but being connected to wifi uses more battery life.

Honestly, just get yourself the basic one & get going - you won't regret it.

It's £59 - you wouldn't haver like this over a coat for that money!

Go on, go on, go on...........................

"So, once it's on the Kindle, I don't need wifi to actually read stuff then?"

Yes.

No dont need internet at all to read on the kindle
Only need internet to download purchase

She wasn't advised to buy ipad.Give she doesn't know what app is,and cant work telly,good advice
Kindle is astonishingly easy

Dh bought me the kindle paperwhite 12 months ago, it took a while months and months but am now used to it. It's great for taking on holiday, reading on train, plane etc etc.

As the screen is backlit, you can read it in bright sunlight or the dark which is great for me as quite often wake at stupid o'clock!

Can't help with the technical setting it up side, but tis very easy to download books, just a quick tap on the screen.

You don't need an ipad, forget all that.

You just need to buy a basic Kindle. You can 'name' it - say, 'Remus's Kindle'. So, you can then log in to Amazon on your PC (or Mac) and go to the Kindle books page. Browse for books you like the sound of, or search for specific ones. Decide to buy (or download for free): you can do this with 1-click when logged in. It will ask which Kindle to send it to. Choose 'Remus's Kindle' and voila! It will appear as a new item on your Kindle, if and when you're connected up to a wifi signal.

I bought a basic Kindle for a 90-year old of my acquaintance who's never used a computer, and finds it hard to understand anything techy at all. She LOVES it.

I download stuff for her, delete the books she's read and keep it organised (you can create different folders of books, so in fact more than one person could share a Kindle, and each could have their own virtual 'shelf' of books on the one device - or you could have one folder of fiction, and another of non-fiction...that's the next level up!).

I'm a 'real books' person but even I've succumbed, and have the Kindle app so I can use my ipad as a kindle.

I'm sure your helpful friends will come round and help you get set up, preferably with !

I was against ereaders, until I went to the PIL's for a "holiday", no internet, can't speak the language so no TV and I had only one book which I finished too quickly.

Now I have a Paperwhite and I have all my books with me wherever I go! Amazing.

Also if you tap and hold on a word the inbuilt magic dictionary tells you what it means (I use mine a lot, not ashamed) and I like the feature that you can see passages that other readers of the same book have highlighted.

If, say, 5 other readers highlighted a passage on their kindle mine highlights it and says "5 readers highlighted" and I usually think "WHY?!" I like that for some reason.

And I can think that I would like to read a book and actually be reading that book in about 2 minutes.

Encouragingly on mn there's always a kindle thread
I got recommended the luminaries and loved it

Yes buy from amazon,and chose no adverts option

If you but your Kindle at Waterstones, you'll have to suffer their changing advertisements on your Kindle until the end of time, I'm told.

Try it out at Waterstones or whatever but get it from Amazon, imho.

Ok,you're amish?im not convinced you're so clueless,does work have computers?
kindle is literally one power switch on top item
You place order,chose which kindle to send.it goes wirelessly

It is also well worth putting books you are thinking off on to your wish list as it is then marked when the price drops.

If you want to watch movies get kindle fire
Get a backlight kindle,eg has light source
And there are astonishing 99p kindle bargains

I got my cheap cover from amazon - Tecknet I think (was under £10)

after banging on about how kindles are all that is evil and cannot compare to the beauty of an actual book - how it feels, how it smells, etc etc

I bought one.

and I LOVE IT!

I am a traitor to the cause

I love how easy it is. I can read so much and I don't have to faff about going and buying books and finding storage for them.

I have amazon prime so have access to their library and also the loads of free books (which are mostly dross but I've happened across some gems) and that's great because I find I am giving a chance to books I would not have bought because I wouldn't have been willing to waste my money.

I've only got the cheap basic kindle. It does the job. No point spending more.

Granny even likes kindle thats some goin,she can barely switch on telly

I was addressing the op,i think go look at a kindle.its really not complicated
Choice is only which one you like and Buy a cheap cover

only trying to help!