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Originally Posted by colin25
@graham M
What is it like to use? Any drawbacks? Is there more than one type of kindle reader?
What is it like outside in sunlight?
All and any answers welcome (though related to the subject  ) |
Very easy, you can turn pages simply by swiping your finger over the screen or tapping at the edge goes back/forward, if you tap in the middle of the screen it lets you go to a certain page in the book (number of pages obviously depends on the size of the text!)
You can change the text size, background colour and brightness to suit comfortable reading for yourself.
Outside in sunlight I imagine is very dependant on the particular phone, on my particular phone - HTC Wildfire - it's not bad but not as easy I would imagine as on some phones with the ultra-modern displays.
That I know of, the Amazon Kindle App is the only one at the moment, but it is free to download and does a very good job, I have read Frankie Boyle's autobiography on it and have started reading Terry Pratchett's - Going Postal, I also have a book to read by one of my favourite author's Barbara Erskine and I also have Alice in Wonderland which cost me about 75p.
Books can be bought on the phone using the built-in Webkit browser which is easily launched from within the Kindle Reader and Amazon's One-Click Payment system is enabled making it incredibly easy to buy books and get reading, once you have paid for the book it is available immediately, you just sync the client (it does it automatically periodically) - works very well over 2G/3G or Wi-Fi.
Hope my essay helped
