Kindle Advice?

[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.

[Nameless]

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.

You'd make a good seller at these for sure and it is something you'd enjoy to do plus, imagine all the pretty girls you could meet

On another note, Kindle did release their first tablette, looks quite unexpensive, half the price of an Ipad and doesn't look bad at all. Did you pay an eye about it? I think it comes with all the functions of the traditional kindle on top of it.

[Kev]

Yeah, the Kindle Fire it's called. Not on sale yet, but I am definitely interested depending on how much Android app functionality there is.

Since Dec 2004 I have been sorting my finances and charting my fitness training on an Ipaq 4700 PDA. I love it, the greatest gadget I ever bought and still used daily today.

But it's ancient now, 7 years old and won't last for ever and I want to switch to a tablet when it dies. I am idealogically opposed to Apple, mainly because my best mate is a disciple for them, so my tablet options have been limited.

The Kindle Fire might be ideal. I don't care about playing games and watching movies on it so processing power and tons of memory is not needed at all, thus the Fire represents something far more practical, providing the Amazon stuff doesn't totally take over the device.

I am very interested though.

It's not an ebook reader though, so should not be considered as a replacement for a proper Kindle.

[Saddo]

got the wife an ipad2 she loves it and there is a app that you can add to it for kindle books.... some people torrent free books and i find that shocking

i'm sure you can pick up an old ipad 1 for much the same price a a kindle on ebay... worth a look mate.