Kindle Advice?

[Mark TKO]

I got one recently - recommend it and would go for 3G

Downloaded some in Turkey when away using 3G, no extra cost - well apart from paying for the books that is.


Only disadvantage is you cant obviously lend books any more and you cant put the file on another kindle.

[Mattyhitman]

I got one recently - recommend it and would go for 3G

Downloaded some in Turkey when away using 3G, no extra cost - well apart from paying for the books that is.


Only disadvantage is you cant obviously lend books any more and you cant put the file on another kindle.

Yea was looking at both, the only advantages of the 3G one is greater memory and faster download speed of the books, is that right ?

[Mark TKO]

dont think so - my take was that you can download books over the 3G network eg you dont have to be at home on wifi nd can do it anywhere

no chasrge either for using it

[Mattyhitman]

dont think so - my take was that you can download books over the 3G network eg you dont have to be at home on wifi nd can do it anywhere

no chasrge either for using it

So with the regular one ya need to have internet access at the house or someone else's to enable to download the free and paid for content?

[Mark TKO]

dont think so - my take was that you can download books over the 3G network eg you dont have to be at home on wifi nd can do it anywhere

no chasrge either for using it

So with the regular one ya need to have internet access at the house or someone else's to enable to download the free and paid for content?

that was my take yes

[Mattyhitman]

dont think so - my take was that you can download books over the 3G network eg you dont have to be at home on wifi nd can do it anywhere

no chasrge either for using it

So with the regular one ya need to have internet access at the house or someone else's to enable to download the free and paid for content?

that was my take yes

Nice one mate

[Kev]

I love my Kindle, it was my favourite gadget purchase of 2010 and I went on and on and on and on and on at everyone I knew to buy one as well.


I have the 3G version. It has the advantage as Mark said, of being able to download books anywhere, so for example you can be on the beach and providing you can get a 3G signal can buy books there.

It is probably very useful abroad too, especially if you are ordering a daily newspaper digitally and the hotel you are in doesn't have Wi Fi.

How useful the 3G is will depend on how often you want to use the Kindle to buy books whilst roaming about outside.

For me, well I haven't used it at all in the past year or so, but then I hardly ever buy books. I just google the .mobi files of books I want and then download them via hotfile or torrents for free. If you are going to get most of your books that way then you won't need 3G at all unless you have a daily newspaper subscription on it and have no Wi Fi access.

They have brought out a really cheap £89 model this week that looks pretty cool. It has less storage capacity, only around 1000 or so books, but that's still plenty in practice. The biggest concern though would be the lack of mini keyboard, as that will make searching for books and typing things more cumbersome.

Again though, if you are downloading books from your pc and then dragging them over to the kindle by mini usb you won't need a kindle either.

So my summary would be as follows.


Kindle 3g: Buy if you are going to be using the Kindle outdoors a lot where there is no Wi Fi and you intend to pay for and buy books from the Amazon store with great regularity. If you go abroad a lot and subscribe to newspapers it would be useful to, if the hotel doesn't have Wi Fi. I rarely, if ever need to use 3G though, but then my bin goes out more than I do.


KIndle Wi Fi. Probably the best price/performance sweet spot. Has full capacity, the keyboard is useful. Excellent value for money.

New £89 Kindle. Not seen or used one but will likely sell like hotcakes. Has the same great screen and is actually smaller which is really cool. Same size screen, but smaller form factor and lighter making it highly portable. However battery life is rated at 1 month rather than the 2 of the others, no keyboard might making using it to search for books more cumbersome. As its a different size and worse battery the excellent leather, lighted covers won't fit, and wouldn't power the light for as long anyway.


My own pick would be the KIndle Wi Fi, plus a leather lighted cover. he cover is waaaaaaaaaay more useful than the 3G.