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If the is someone at home get them to bring it to work.;)

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I thought it would sync across all your devices registered to the account...

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You can certainly have books on more than one device (I have some o my ipod / pc / kindle) SOME books have a limit on the number of devices you can have them on.

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Cant :( Mrs GM does'nt drive and I work a fair bit away from where I live..

Come on work day, hurry up and finish :mad: :D:D

I have been reading Percy Janckson and the lightening thief on my friends kindle so I need to buy that. (only got half way through)
Is there a way to share books? not that im condoning copyright infringement but its possible to share a physical book and you can take books from the library etc...

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Website says..
Can I share content with other Kindles?
Books can be shared between Kindles, Kindle for PC, or iPhones that are registered to the same account. There may be limits on the number of devices (usually six) that can simultaneously use a single book. Subscriptions to newspapers or periodicals cannot be shared on multiple devices. If you purchased a Kindle (Latest Generation), you can re-download books wirelessly for free, anytime, to your Kindles. We even back up your last page read and annotations, so when you re-download your books you can pick up where you left off with all of your notes still in place.

and from this
http://ilmk.wordpress.com/2010/08/27...t-kindle-book/

You can share Kindle books.

Don’t let anybody tell you otherwise. You can pay $9.99 for a bestseller from the Kindle store and share it with one hundred people (more if you like)…entirely legally…within the rules.

There’s one big restriction, though.

They have to be on your account.

Kindle books belong to the account on which they were purchased.

It doesn’t matter if the person who bought the book, the person who paid for it, is on the account any more or not.

You can pay for it, and your kids and grandkids and coworkers and friends can all read it.

But they have to be on your account.

There’s another major limitation, and that one is set by the publisher, on a per book basis. That’s on how many devices* you have the book simultaneously. Yes, you can have a hundred people or more on you account. But you can only have the book on so many devices on the account at the same time.

Unless it says otherwise on the book’s Amazon Product Page, the number of devices on which you can have the book at the same time is six. Some books have fewer device licenses (I’ve seen as few as 1), some are unlimited (those tend to be public domain ((not under copyright protection)) or independently published through Amazon’s Digital Text Platform).

Even if the book has one license, though, all of the people on your account can read it. They just have to take turns…just like with a paperbook.

But let’s say your Significant Other already has a Kindle and an Amazon account. You’ve each got your own Amazon account…it’s how the two of you keep gifts secret from each other. Your SO has already bought twenty books before your Kindle arrives.

Here’s what you have to decide:

Are you going to put your Kindle on your SO’s account (giving you access to the twenty books previously bought, and giving you both access to the books you buy in the future), or are you going to put in on your account?

Officially, you can’t combine the accounts later. I’ve heard about Customer Service doing that, but don’t count on it. They don’t have to do it.

Buy a book from the Kindle store when your Kindle is not on your SO’s account, and your SO doesn’t have access to it.

Now, I know there are some of you out there jumping up and down like Arnold Horshack, saying you can share Kindle store books with people not on your account. They register the Kindle to your account, download the book, and then deregister.

The book does not disappear from the Kindle (again, despite what you may hear from people).

That absolutely works mechanically.

But is it okay?

I don’t know.

That’s the question Amazon won’t answer for me. I’ve asked them different ways, even snail mailing the legal department.

Amazon is usually very responsive…I love their Kindle Customer Service!

But apparently, they decline to respond to this one.

I’ll write more about that another time. I know it’s against the Terms of Service to sell or give a Kindle with Kindle store content on it, but for now, I’m not going to recommend the register/download/deregister thing.

Let me stress that it could be perfectly fine: I just don’t now.

Bottom line, if you register your Kindle to an account with another Kindle on it, you can share the books for sure…no questions asked. All the Kindle store books bought on that account will be available to all of the devices on the account through the Amazon archives…even future devices. You can redownload the books as often as you want, to the same device or others (with that simultaneous device license limitation, of course).

There are advantages to having it on a separate account, too, don’t get me wrong. For one thing, the money issue is clear. If you’re on the same account with other people, you have to work out who is paying for what. You can switch credit cards…but only from the computer, not from the Kindle. You can buy gift certificates…but all that’s more complicated (although not too bad).

Also, you’ll both see what the other person is buying…there might be some surprises there.

So, before you buy your first Kindle book, you need to decide…on which account will your Kindle be registered?

* Other devices on your account could include: each Kindle for PC installation (two PCs, two devices); each Kindle for Mac installation; each iPad installation; each iPhone installation; each iPod touch installation; each Blackberry installation; each Android device installation. If you have six device licenses, and put that book on a desktop, a laptop, and a Kindle, you’ve used up three licenses.

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Great link, colin25, it looks like keeping them both on the same account may be the way to go. Thanks.

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Ooooh, it's lovely :)

Really easy to hold and read, though I need to get the hang of where the next page buttons are when I'm holding it landscape.

Only bit of trouble was working out how to connect to my wifi with the SSID turned off but got that sorted now.

Now to actually read some of the stuff I've downloaded onto it :)

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I've wanted a tablet style device to read books etc on for ages, in fact that's the only reason I really wanted an iPad.

I just can't justify the price :(

Are ALL books cheaper on the Kindle? If I decide I don't like it can I transfer my books to another format (for example, could I import them into iBooks if I chose to get one eventually)?

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I don't think you could transfer Kindle books to iBooks as the kindle format (azw) is DRM protected, BUT the iPad has a free kindle app so you wouldn't need to.

As has been mentioned the calbre software is great for converting formats. I've been able to convert all my stuff (that isn't drm'd) freely into the correct format for my kindle.

I wouldn't say ALL books are cheaper - but it does seem that most are.

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Cheers :tu:

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...and if you ever pass this way again you are more than welcome to pop in and have a play with my kindle :)

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Oooer! :D

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ONLY my kindle mind lol :)

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I am going to big up my kindle. As some know my internet has been really bad the last few weeks and not working at all over the last couple of days - the kindle has kept me on CF, NTHW and Facebook so I am impressed.

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I really want a Kindle :(

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There is a preview version of the next software update for Kindle 3 available

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custom...529700#preview

- usual caveats about pre-release software apply, but I have loaded it without any problems, so far....

The web browser seems faster is the main effect I've noticed, ..

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I thought the page turning was a bit better too.

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I got my kindle early yesterday morning (3G one), the e-ink is absolutely amazing I've read two books so far and am absolutely in love with this thing, its amazing!

My three complaints

1) PDF looks a bit crunchy but their easy enough to convert, however my programming manuals dont look great, lucky I got most from http://pragprog.com/ and a number of them are downloadable in the native Kindle format.
2) I hate the screen savers their crazy random
3) Its annoying that subscribing to a blog cost £2 / Month, also where is The Guardian and Engadget? Ive had to actually settle for The Evening Standard and Gizmodo :(

Anyway im going back to Carl Sagan's - Cosmos so many books to read on this puppy.

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Trying it now.....

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you could try getting the RSS versions of the Guardian & Endgadget via Calibre

http://calibre-ebook.com/

- all for free :)

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Thanks, very useful...:)

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If you own an Amazon Kindle e-reader hardware, you may want to grab the Kindle 3.0.2 beta firmware, which is now available for download from Amazon. The firmware brings a Web browser along with some bug fixes that were found since the last 3.0.1 update, including slower page turns while outdoors. Several owners who have updated their firmware have reported that page turns are faster outdoors with the new 3.0.2 software compared with the slowdown encountered since the 3.0.1 update

http://www.techweet.com/story/kindle...e-for-download

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lol - I've looked all over my Kindle, but can't find the 'outdoors' sensor - maybe it is only on American models, as their 'outdoors' is bigger than ours ;)

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I will test that, when on holiday

but found this....

With what little I know about the physics of the eInk display, I'd be surprised if it weren't normal for it to slow down a bit when hot. It is, after all a mechanical process and the expansion of those little spheres might very well give rise to fiction effects. Maximum ambient operating temp is only 95F (I say "only" because I'm in Texas and it gets much hotter than that in the summer).

The new display on the K3 may very well be more sensitive to this.

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For those who like sudoku - check out this freebie from the kindle store.

I attached a couple of scheen shots (alt+shift+g ;)).

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The review says
Thought I would try this on my new Kindle 3. The puzzles all open in the browser, which is fine, and the look good and are easy to use. However on the K3 either the top or bottom row of the puzzle is always off the screen, making it hard-to-impossible to complete.

hmm..unless the software updates sorts it

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Or unless the reviewer doesn't know how to use his kindle properly.... all you have to do is use the page keys on the side and it moves the page up and down so you can do the puzzles.

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It'll be cool to do sudokus on the the Kindle, I'd get one just for that alone if it works well. I tend to do about 6-10 a day (with crohn's you need something to do on the loo). :) Saying that, a kindle could stop the loo looking like a library, so that's another plus.

Probably my only claim to fame (sad I know) is I can complete a hard level (Times) sudoku in around 2 minutes flat.

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Well I tried the new firmware, can't really say as I've noticed any speed increase. The only thing I did notice that for some reason I can no longet post on facebook with the browser which I could before. Not that important obviously but worth a mention.

While my internet has been smegged I've been using the kindle a lot to do NTHW / CF and facebook.

---------- Post added at 20:08 ---------- Previous post was at 20:06 ----------

When I could still read (A book) my loo did indeed look like a library :)

Not sure about this sudoku though, I get the feeling the freebie is just a freebie to get you going and get you to pay for more.

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Someone has ported Zork.. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/08/kindle_zork/

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interesting review, though you epub comment is covered by the link to calibre

http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/eread...mazon-kindle-3

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Here is a home page for the kindle browser to consider

http://www.kinstant.com/

It has links to mobile / kindle suitable versions of sites.

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If anyone has PDFs and wants to convert them to Kindle, try MobiPocket.

I did try Calibre but it kept failing but MobiPocket does it almost flawlessly.

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Apologies if this has been posted before, but this Amazon page has the top 100 free Kindle e-books.

Link

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I was looking at that earlier you can get the complete works of Charles Dickens and William Shakespeare for free plus much more.;)

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I'm still toying with the idea of getting one of these, so now that everyone here has had time to get used to theirs, has any thoughts on them changed since?

Do you still use it over real books, if anything like me I can't do without my Itouch now, is that now the same for you with the Kindle?

I don't want to get one then end up picking up a real book a couple of months down the line if you know what I mean.

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The Kindle is more convenient. I tend to switch between books, reading up to three or four at a time. Once you get into a book you forget that you're using a Kindle, the text is exactly the same as it is on the printed page. I still buy real books if they're not available on the Kindle.

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Thanks for that Delta, so you'd still recommend one I take it. Do you need a case and light to go with them or can you do with out. Stupid question I know, but they are quite pricey, not sure if you get 3rd party cases instead of the official ones. I'm not likely to take it out or anything like that.

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I'm a big fan of the kindle, would recommend it to anyone - got my mum one for Christmas.

I'd say yes to a case I carry mine around in a rucksack a lot of the time - not sure about a light, guess the question is how often you read in the dark? - I don't, so I didn't need one.

Can't comment on the unoffical case - I got the offical plain leather case - seems ok, no complaints.

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I can't read an ordinary book - but even so I would not want to be without my kindle #:)

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I got the latest one, and I travel abroad a lot so weight has always been an issue especially on helicopters. I can't always get access to my email as well. With the kindle I can get at all my books and my email is free, so it's a double win for me.:)

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I love my Kindle, wouldn't be without it now. I bought a neoprene case for mine off e-bay for £5 and also travel with it in an A5 zipped poly pocket from Wilkinson. The Kindle reads fine by daylight and I have a small reading lamp for other times. The case and light combo is great if you travel a lot where an overhead light might not be available, as the power for the light comes from the Kindle (no extra batteries to worry about).

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Thanks for the info, totally convinced now and I've now got one on order. (I used my competition winnings for it, cheers CF) :)

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I'm definitely reading more now I have my kindle.

I bought both a neoprene cover and a hard shell case. I've managed to avoid dropping it or putting mugs of coffee on it so I'm not sure how much mistreatment it can take.

Still loving it :)

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That's the main reason for me as well hopefully. I'm hoping it gets me back reading as much as I used to which was quite a lot a good few years ago. Then all of a sudden I just stopped, that's till I tried out the iTouch, so hopefully this will get me back into it again.

A neoprene cover sounds ideal for me so will check those out.

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I don't have a Kindle, I have a Sony 650, I just didn't want to feel left out. Anyway, all hail the electronic reader, whatever the brand, it's gotten me back into reading in a big way.

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Anyone have an opinion if the Kindle is the 'best' e-reader out atm?

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It seems to be the most popular one out there.

http://www.ebookreadersreview.co.uk/

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I think this really depends on what you are after.

I had a Cybook for years and recently bought a kindle. Hardware wise it is a huge improvement.

I was unsure about being locked into Amazon, the only reason I went with a kindle was that I fount a way to convert my current ebooks to a suitable format (epub -mobi)

Love the wispersync now as I have the kindle app on my phone and pc at work. The integrated book store works well plus i can now conert books bought in other stores as well.

There are ebook readers that support more formats but I can live with the conversion process.

JJ

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You can get books for the Kindle from many other sources apart from Amazon.

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Thanks for that, must admit I never really looked for kindle3 books elsewhere.
Have to have a closer look.

The wispersync and amzon book store is really convenient though.

JJ

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The Kindle doesn't mess with your sleep patterns unlike the iPad or others that has backlights.

I'd be lost now without mine.

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Also in direct sunlight nothing compares to eink (a real book is ok as well I suppose)

JJ

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Here is one UK Kindle forum where you will find help getting ebooks from other sources http://kinfinity.co.uk/ the are other similar sites.

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There are loads of free classics available from the Kindle store.

I heard a programme on Radio 4 extolling the virtues of Great Expectations, which I've never read.

Ah ha, I thought, I'll get it from the Kindle store. Turns out it's not free.

Mentioned this to my partner, who said 'Yes it is!'

She has an amazon.com account set up while she was in the US. When she logs in it's free. If I log in to my amazon.com account, which knows from my IP address I'm in the UK, it's chargeable.

Guess it must be something to do with the Dickens estate over here still wanting royalties...

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Depends where you look... For example - Project Gutenberg

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1400

Copy the file to the Documents folder on the kindle and Robert's your father's brother.

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Yes Amazon 49p or as Lord Nikon states free elsewhere.:erm::)

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And since Project Gutenberg is a totally legitimate online ebook resource I can quite happily mention it here.

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Yes it is a good place to look for ebooks.:)

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Thanks for that, although I don't have a Kindle. Copied to the relevant folder on PC & Samsung Galaxy S... :tu: :)

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The kindle firmware 3.1 is out

If you have wifi on it /should/ download it in the background and install when it goes into sleep mode.

Anyway - more info here

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custom...deId=200529700

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We have just got a Kindle. Looking great so far.
Our Library (Hants) does ebook loans in Adobe ePub format. These can be converted to mobi using a nice tool called Calibre. :)

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I have recently brought a Sony E-reader its a PRS 350! (what ever that means lol!?)
I paid just over £160 for it from Tesco! seemed OK the first couple of days, came with 200 books built in all Charles dickens so a few were a good read, I had a look at the kindle and think it does the same thing but I do want it!! With the Kindle can you order books from there or is it like mine and you have to manually plug the device into the PC/Laptop and then sync on the application that comes with the device hmmm :)

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You can order books from the kindle store and download them using your kindle.

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That sounds better!
But with the 3G ones can you download when your out and about? (providing your in reach of a good strength wifi signal.. :erm: )

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If you have the 3g one you don't need a wifi signal, just a mobile one.

And yup you can download books through the mobile network when you are out and about.

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Aw that would be useful!
Hmm think I'll think about this one first :)

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If you buy stuff from the Amazon site - even if you 'buy' something that's free - it immediately gets downloaded for free over 3G if you have it and have a signal, otherwise when you connect by wifi or USB.

If you get the content somewhere else - say a pdf from Project Gutenberg for instance - then you get 2 special email addresses. You email the stuff to one of them and it gets automatically converted to mobi and added to your kindle.

One of them is a free service - the download happens as soon as you connect by wifi or usb. The other goes via 3g and you're charged a fee. I've never needed to use that so far.

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If anyone likes SF, here is a collating site of lots of free stories (all legal) - quite a few in Kindle format.

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First time in the Kindle thread so please don't shoot me!

I've got a load of PDFs on my PC - can I put them on a Kindle if I where to buy one?

Do they have to go through some conversion process to get them on there or does it support native PDF?

And how would I get them on there?

Cheers!

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You can view PDFs on a Kindle but it just too much hassle really. But you can use calibre to convert (text) PDFs to .Mobi format, so if you have say a paperback in PDF, then it won't be a problem.

To get them on there, it's just a case of drag and drop.

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Cool - thanks - is calibre an app that's bundled with a Kindle then?

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No, but it's a freeware app you can download. Very handy, it'll convert most formats to the kindle format, very easy to use as well.

If you want to try it out, you can install Calibre and install the Kindle reader for the PC, then give it try, convert a PDF using it, then view it in the kindle reader and see how it looks. Also good to learn how to get the best out of Calibre without porting them over to the actual Kindle.

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Too much hassle? I just email the pdf to the Kindle account and it pops up on the next sync. You can't change the font size on a pdf - just alter the zoom - but apart from that it's straighforward.

Lee, a cool feature of Calibre is you can email imported files straight to your Kindle - no messing with USB cables.

Great piece of freeware IMO.

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Hassle as in reading the actual pdfs, not a hassle in getting them on the actual Kindle itself.

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Fair point - not as easy reading as Mobi format.

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I read that there was a charge for that - some email address like *****@free.kindle.com - think this went through some Amazon conversion system hence the charge.

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http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/cust...00493090#email

If you have the 3G version, you send the docs to free.kindle.com and they are sent via WiFi. If you don't have 3G then it doesn't matter which address you use.

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Cool - thanks for the info all...

I must have been getting this confused:

Don't see much point in buying a 3G version anyway...

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It may have been mentioned before but the point of having a 3G , at least fir me, means acces to the web, emails etc anywhere in the world anytime for free ( it is in black and white and it is slow but it is free.
I tried it in alexandria airport 2 months ago).:)

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Well....bitten the bullet and got one from Tesco this evening....it's on charge at the moment.

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3g or not 3g, that ....is the question?:D whether it is cheaper in the pocket to suffer the shillings and a rows of outrageous fortune
or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by buying a wireless only one: to buy and to sleep when it hath charged fully.
the heartache and thousand natural shocks when you can't get a wireless signal
devoutly to be wished


:):D

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You've been reading too much!

I went for the £111 wi-fi version from Tesco.

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Keep taking the tablets :p:

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An ad subsidised Kindle is being released in the US (Not here yet).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13047300

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Actually I had a load of pdf books that I wanted to read on my Kindle, was worried that Calibre would be too complicated, but honestly it was SO easy to convert them and then transfer them onto the Kindle. If I can do it anyone can.

btw first post on the Kindle thread. Got mine in October and absolutely LOVE it. Yes, I like 'real' books, but I have space issues, and I travel and I have RSI issues as well which are irritated by holding a paperback book open while reading in bed. The Kindle solves all of these problems. And I've picked up over 100 free books (contemporary ones too) from the Kindle store so I've got reading for the next few years sorted LOL

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Yes, agree, kindle a God send (and I'm agnostic)

Great for holiday, as you say, saves carrying lots of books

And nothing better for a quickie (read) in bed :)

I've bought lots of cheap discounted books, working my way through them

And full series of the dresden files

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I love my kindle best investment I've done in ages :) ... just want to find a way to change the text from black to white if possible on a black background.

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The Kindle is surprising useful! I wanted one but didn't expect it too be as useful and treasured as i found it to be.

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Try the instructions in the middle of this link http://www.theiphoneguru.net/2010/12...za-and-ibooks/

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Isn't that for the app?..not the actual kindle device?

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It was one of the few items found with instructions that may have helped could find nothing for Kindle itself.

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yes, i wondered. I searched as well, and current version doesn't allow black on white, as far as i can tell

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I suspect the only way you will be able to invert the colours is to jailbreak it first. The kindle itself I mean. It's not hard to do.

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Actually bit the bullet and just ordered one.. Only an amazon refurb (£80) for a Kindle Keyboard Wifi with full warranty.

I was initially not going to get one and said so in this thread but after trying out a friends device I was pleasantly suprised. Was thinking of the new Kindle but wanted the keyboard/sound/memory/battery life options of the keyboard version.

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Just remember to turn the wifi off if you are not using it. Otherwise the battery life is just ok rather than brilliant.

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ThanX Dilli, any idea of the battery life with the wifi on? It's though mainly gonna be used in house or car so will always be near a power source.

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I tend to charge mine up once a week, but I'd
Robably use more power than standard as I use mine to read the books out loud with the voice synthesiser.

My dad gets about three weeks on his one. But I'm not sure how much he uses it.

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I've got a few books in HTML/epub/Mobi formats is there a free tool to convert these to Kindle format?