kindle : Computer Hardware Buyers’ Glossary

2008-06-07 by Roedy Green ©1997-2008 Canadian Mind Products
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kindle

A wireless device for reading electronic books. It uses a high contrast display that looks much like ink on paper. There are more than 130,000 books, blogs, newspapers and magazines available in kindle format. Books cost about $10.00 USD each, including airtime. You can also get magazines and newspapers. You don’t need a computer. The device is self-contained, much like a cell-phone. Amazon does not specify, but I think it only works in the continential USA. The device itself is about $359.00 USD

recommend Amazon⇒kindle

Wireless device for reading e-books.

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You can also download your own documents to it for $10.00 USD each. You can also download audiobooks, but not via the air due to their large size. You must download them to a computer over the Internet, then download them to the kindle via a USB cable. It would be great for travel. You could pack the equivalent of 3 weeks worth of reading material in a compact package.

I still have not managed to find out where the kindle works. Obviously in will let you read pre-downloaded books anywhere, but where can you download more reading material? Canada? Europe? rural USA? only where some particular cell phone company offers coverage? only where there is coverage for some particular cell-phone technology? Does kindle use the usual cell phone network, or does it have its own broadcast system?

Acrobat
FullBooks.com
Lulu
On-line book pubishing
On-line book publishing
On-line bookstores
PDF
Personal Bookshelf
Project Gutenberg
TechBookReport
Trafford

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