Does anyone have an Amazon Kindle?

sensation i shall hae to buy books as i like to read in the bath to but not very often i get chance to

ok im convinced have ordered mine , i want it now ;( .

I got a kindle this Christmas too, and think its fab!

I was worried about paying a lot for books as I usually get mine from Tesco (3 for a £10 for example) from charity shops or from my library.

However,I've found some chick it for less than £3 and one for 69p.

I'm also a fan of reading in the bath, so I don't know how I'll cope unless I start taking showers instead ( without the Kindle of course )

Love mine already.

I bought a cover with a light from Ebay for £15, free postage - miles better than £50 on Amazon! Fits perfectly, light is clip on but I won't use it often so don't care. I'd rather be £35 better off! And it's purple leather, and Amazon don't do purple :)

Mine has the 3G. I probably wouldn't have thought to need it, but DH loves a gadget, and he bought it for me as an anniversary present.

If I were only using it at home, the 3G wouldn't really be necessary. As it is, I travel a lot for work and the 3G just makes everything a hell of a lot easier. Highlights - delivery of the Telegraph, Spectator and Economist when staying in a factory 'guest house' in the wilds of Indonesia (no wifi, but I could get a 3G signal!). And then, coming back from the USA as all this snow started, my flight was diverted to refuel when Amsterdam airport was shut down while they cleared the runways. Sitting on the tarmac at Dusseldorf airport, I was able to find and download the next volume of the fantasy series I was reading. We sat on the tarmac for 3 hours, and I eventually got home at midnight, so it really saved my sanity that day.

I find the paid-for books generally good, although picture quality is not wonderful (black and white, not terribly clear) so I wouldn't use it for a book where the pictures are important. Some of the free books are pretty poor - mostly because the indexing for chapters and so on is not done. The Economist has done a good job of producing a Kindle edition, but both the Spectator and the Telegraph seem to just do a text dump, with no pictures and the text interrupted by their captions. That said, the Economist is a lot more expensive.

One last point - the Kindle cover has been linked to some problems with random rebooting and crashing here. I have had some of these problems, although not as severe as some. This is apparently not an issue with the version which has a built in reading light.

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Rosin that's what was wondering myself to will just load up at home or on holiday.Us there s lust of titles I can look at while I'm waiting so get done idea of what's available

I read anything other than mills and boon and horror anything else is fair game even back of ceral packets when desperate

TmiEdward - I think to get the most out of it what you really need to do is to get used to reading it. (It is odd that you have to turn the page so often and that books have so many pages.)

So if I were you I would (pay to) download a book that you really want to read and that you know you will enjoy, then sit down and get into the swing of it!

goingroundthebend4 - I don't really see what you need the 3G option for. There are so many wireless networks around these days. So unless you can't wait til you get home/to a wireless network before you get the latest book you've just heard about ...

The kindle does have a rudimentary 'experimental' web browser, but it's really clunky, and with no mouse or touch screen there's not a lot you can do with it. Certainly not a patch on your iphone. So I wouldn't bother with 3G personally.

Marjoriew - yes, you can enlarge the print - lots of different size options.

I had a look at the 3G version. I love it, and it's mine:)

I home educate grandson [11], so we have books all over the place and we're running out of space.
We spend a lot of time on buses going to museums etc.

I got amazon vouchers for Xmas everyone knew wanted kindle so all chipped in ,is it worth paying bit more for the 3G option since have iPhone do I really need it ?

We go camping a lot and when younger two are asleep I'm stuck in tent and this AAVE me lugging loads of books

I'm for treating myself to a Kindle.
Questions are: cost of the books to dowload, where to get the lists of books, and how easy on the eyes.
I have cataracts in both eyes.
Can you enlarge the print?

I just got my kindle (DH forgot my present when we went to relatives over Christmas and left it in his wardrobe!).
I have no idea where to start.
I downloaded a few free books, but now??

I did take mine to work with me as like reading on bus etc but had my purse taken out of my bag on xmas eve which has put me off having anything valuable on me. That said can just get a cheap paperback for bus and work reading. Would still take my Kindle on hols etc but no don't leave it on a sun lounger!
Really like my Kindle can't recommend them enough

You could not just leave it on the sunlounger though ...

I just want to book a holiday purely for the joy of not having to pack about ten books - am very sad and lonely..

Simpson, you can load books on to more than one kindle, but only if they are linked to one Amazon account. ie you can have a group of linked Kindles (say in a family), but only one person can PAY for the books to be loaded to them!

Dh and ds1 got kindles for Christmas and we have a spare (don't ask!), which I may have. But we'll just share one account.

I don't think I'd share with my brother though! Well, not unless it was HIS account that I could charge things to

I was lucky enough to be treated by DP to a Kindle for Christmas!
like many of you I was a little wary at first for all the reasons you've mentioned, mostly the sensations, the weight, the smell, the very book-ness of books.
However, I'm delighted with it!! We are away for Christmas and it was great not to have to lug 10 books with me. I am able to read really quickly,....... yes, I do read it all, yes, I do knowthe names of the characters, yes, I can tell you the plot. I do other things while on holiday, talk to other people, all the normal things, but the combination of reading so quickly, painful joints from arthritis and insomnia mean I have in the past read 20 books while on holiday.
So far, it's been great, I've read the latest Kate Atkinson, a D L Sayers, a whodunit and I have Cranford lined up next.
BUT it will not replace 'proper' books in my heart, DP bought me a truly beautiful book here and the pleasure I get from holding and possessing that book could never be replaced by a device.

DP

it probably won't, it's just another way to spend on books

The Foosa- aah, the bookshop is my most favourite place in the whole world, i should take out shares in waterstones, WH Smiths etc! ( i wasnt called bookworm at school for nothing!)
Hmm, maybe it will save me a small fortune.

Need to watch the pricing, sometime the book can be cheaper than the download. Was helping my Dad with his new 'toy' yesterday.

Amazon list 100 free books - pre 1900 and something - but what are the one's pre-stored on the SOny Ereader like?

funmother, I know what you mean, nothing can beat an actual book

but I have downloaded books that are just too cumbersome to read, like The Passage

and loads of free stuff that I would have to pay for otherwise

but I would definately miss that thrill of browsing a book shop

Can you load books you have paid for to a different (2nd) kindle??

My brother got a kindle for Xmas too and might want to read some of the books I have

Hi Ladies, do you mind if i ask a question?
I am toying with the idea of getting a kindle but here is the problem: i LOVE the feel of a book, of turning the pages, the smell of a book (yes yes, odd to some i know).
For those of you who have bought a kindle and feel the same as me about books in general, do you miss a 'real' book in your hands, or is it something that you get used to over time?

Your books are on your Amazon account, so if you lose your kindle, you just load them again