Kindle : Computer Hardware Buyers’ Glossary

Introduction

A wireless device for reading electronic books. It uses a high contrast display that looks much like ink on paper. However, the contrast is not nearly as high as the competing Kobo and Sony eBook readers. I have not seen it side by side with a Nook.

Kindle already makes up a whopping 12% of the book sale market of titles also available in Kindle form. Last revised/verified: 2009-02-22

The first things that struck me when I first saw a pair of Kindles was:

• They are thinner than most cellphones.
• I thought the display was a plastic overlay to protect the screen. It looks like printed ink. There in no sign of pixelation, though the edges look a little rough, like newsprint. The contrast is very high, really solid blacks like nothing you have ever seen before. It supports 16 shades of gray which lets it do anti-aliasing to smooth the edges of letters. You can read them from any angle.
• Supports AZW (Amazon Word), AZW1, TXT, MOBI (Mobile pocket eBook format) , PRC (Palm Resource Code) , AA, AAX, PDF (Portable Document Format), Microsoft Word documents, JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) images and Mp3 music file formats.

Kindles are a loss leader to sell eBooks. Kindles cost Amazon roughly twice what they sell them for.

Shopping for A Kindle

These Kindles are in ascending order by list price. This approximates the order of street price. Amazon insists I not display prices, fearing they will be obsolete and because for some reason the prices they post on their website do not match the ones they post in the AWS (Amazon Web Services) database I use. You can find out the prices by clicking through to the Amazon site. The 9.5” Fires are obsolete, replaced by a smaller 7” model.

Amazon has simplified the black and white Kindle line to three models:

1. The Basic Kindle has a touch screen but no light.
2. The Paperwhite Kindle has a light to let you read in the dark or in dim light. The paperwhite has an optional free 3G option for a mere $70 to let you download books where there is no WiFi (Wireless Fidelity) access.
3. The top-of-the-line Voyager Kindle gives you access to the entire Kindle library for $10 a month.

electronic link to Kindle Basic

	recommend electronic⇒Kindle Basic
	asin	B007HCCNJU
	dim	9.10 × 12.20 cm 3.58 × 4.80 in
Basic model in black or grey. Wireless device for reading eBooks, 16 grey levels, Requires WiFi or USB access. Controlled by wiggling button. diagonal: 15.2 cm, 6.00 inches, width × height 600 × 800 pixels.
Online electronic stores carrying Kindle Basic amazon.com bestbuy.ca amazon.ca canadacomputers.com amazon.de ncix.ca amazon.es newegg.ca amazon.fr www.staples.ca amazon.it tigerdirect.ca amazon.co.uk bestbuy.com junglee.com ncixus.com other stores newegg.com www.staples.com tigerdirect.com
Greyed out stores probably do not have the item in stock

electronic link to Kindle E-reader, White

	recommend electronic⇒Kindle E-reader, White
	asin	B017JG41PC
	dim	16 × 11½ × 0.91 cm 6.30 × 4.53 × 0.36 in
6" Glare-Free Touchscreen Display, Wi-Fi, Includes Special Offer. Lighter and thinner than previous design. Uses less power. Released 2016-07-07.
Online electronic stores carrying Kindle E-reader, White amazon.com bestbuy.ca amazon.ca canadacomputers.com amazon.de ncix.ca amazon.es newegg.ca amazon.fr www.staples.ca amazon.it tigerdirect.ca amazon.co.uk bestbuy.com junglee.com ncixus.com other stores newegg.com www.staples.com tigerdirect.com
Greyed out stores probably do not have the item in stock

electronic link to Kindle Paperwhite

	recommend electronic⇒Kindle Paperwhite
	asin	B00OQVZDJM
	dim	17.02 × 11.68 × 0.91 cm 6.70 × 4.60 × 0.36 in
6" High-Resolution Display (300 ppi) with Built-in Light, Wi-Fi, 4Gb. Supports the following formats: Kindle Format 8 (AZW3), Kindle (AZW), TXT, PDF, unprotected MOBI, PRC. There is also a model that has free 3G download of books as well as WiFi.
Online electronic stores carrying Kindle Paperwhite amazon.com bestbuy.ca amazon.ca canadacomputers.com amazon.de ncix.ca amazon.es newegg.ca amazon.fr www.staples.ca amazon.it tigerdirect.ca amazon.co.uk bestbuy.com junglee.com ncixus.com other stores newegg.com www.staples.com tigerdirect.com
Greyed out stores probably do not have the item in stock

electronic link to Kindle Fire 7” 3G

	recommend electronic⇒Kindle Fire 7” 3G
	asin	B0051VVOB2
	dim	9 × 15.30 cm 3.54 × 6.02 in
This product is not in stock at any of the Amazon stores. Older model. Wireless device for reading eBooks with 7” colour screen. Receive books via 3G cellphone towers. Coverage in 100 countries. Does not work with WiFi. Controlled by a touch screen. Like a low-end Apple iPad. It is an Android device that can run apps and games. Developers program it in Java. diagonal: 17.8 cm, 7.00 inches, 600 × 1024 pixels.
Online electronic stores carrying Kindle Fire 7” 3G amazon.com bestbuy.ca amazon.ca canadacomputers.com amazon.de ncix.ca amazon.es newegg.ca amazon.fr www.staples.ca amazon.it tigerdirect.ca amazon.co.uk bestbuy.com junglee.com ncixus.com other stores newegg.com www.staples.com tigerdirect.com
Greyed out stores probably do not have the item in stock

electronic link to Kindle Voyage, 6"

	recommend electronic⇒Kindle Voyage, 6"
	asin	B00IOY8XWQ
with Adaptive Built-in Light, PagePress Sensors (page button on either side). Hi res touch display. Wi-Fi, optional extra cost free (they mean bundled) 3G, includes ads (aka Special Offers). You can get rid of the ads for an extra $20. Requires a WiFi access to download books. 180 grams (lighter than the paperwhite). 300 ppi resolution display. Will not be in stock until 2016-10-25, delayed 3 months.
Online electronic stores carrying Kindle Voyage, 6" amazon.com bestbuy.ca amazon.ca canadacomputers.com amazon.de ncix.ca amazon.es newegg.ca amazon.fr www.staples.ca amazon.it tigerdirect.ca amazon.co.uk bestbuy.com junglee.com ncixus.com other stores newegg.com www.staples.com tigerdirect.com
Greyed out stores probably do not have the item in stock

Kindle Coverage

Kindles used to work only in parts of the USA. Now they work world wide, wherever 3G cellphone coverage is advised. The Kindle holds enough books for a lifetime of reading, so you can load them up where there is coverage to read off in the jungle. With WiFi , the kindle will work anywhere in the world there WiFi is Internet access, e.g. Internet Cafés anywhere in the world. See eReader connectivity for details.

Kindle Formats

Kindle is quite limited in the formats of book it can display. It supports only ISO-8859-1 encoding, so has only limited support for non-English. It supports Mobipocket format (.MOBI, .PRC), plain text files, PDF and Amazon’s proprietary, copy-protected AZW format. eBook, Word, HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) etc. have to be converted before use. Kindles mostly use two Amazon proprietary formats, AZW and KF8 with copy protection.

Books

Book referral for Publish Your Book On The Amazon Kindle: A Practical Guide

	recommend book⇒Publish Your Book On The Amazon Kindle: A Practical Guide
	by	Michael R. Hicks	978-1-4404-5694-7	paperback
	birth	1963 age:54	B001KYG5AY	kindle
	publisher	CreateSpace
	published	2008-11-14
A practical guide to publishing your book for the Amazon Kindle.
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