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**littlePen** · 12-14-2010, 03:02 PM

I'm getting one for Christmas this year, and I did a good amount of research on them. Personally I have a huge library of PDF, .txt and .doc e-books that I simply have a hard time reading on a computer screen. My eyes start to hurt after 10 minutes or so of reading on an LCD screen. So what I like about the Kindle is that it's screen mimics ink on paper, and really well too. You can change the size of the text or the font type so it's comfortable to you. You can go to Target or Best Buy and see for yourself how nice it looks. The Kindle will read PDFs, but it renders them as images, not text, so if you have a pdf with small size font you'll have a hard time reading it on the Kindle. But you can convert your PDFs to the e-book "mobi" format (which Kindle can read) with a program called "Calibre E-Book Management". Like Gaillo, I have a large library of hard copy books as well, but after moving a few times and forgetting where a particular book is when you have 5 boxes of books, the convenience of having a good portion of them on one device is appealing.

does it come loaded with some books? No, it doesn't come with any books loaded on it.

are some of them free? Thousands of older books, no longer in copyright, are available for free at the Kindle store: http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=2245146011

best sellers or new ones average $10? I've already put together a list of favorites that I want to download once I get mine, and I've found that the Kindle price is always much less than the hard copy price. Plus there are lots of new authors or indie authors who are not well known who put their books up for like $1-3. I found some sci-fi books for a couple bucks each that I'm planning to download. Also, pretty much any book available for Kindle you can get a free first chapter or sample sent directly to your Kindle so you can read the first part of the book to see if you like it.

what else is available besides books? The new Kindles have a web-browser on them, an mp3 player and you can download various games as well. I don't see a need for an mp3 or game player on an e-book reader, but the web browser could be cool. If you buy the Kindle 3G version, you don't have to pay for 3G support, so you have free internet on your Kindle for life.

12-14-2010, 03:02 PM	#11
littlePen Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 529 Senior Member	I'm getting one for Christmas this year, and I did a good amount of research on them. Personally I have a huge library of PDF, .txt and .doc e-books that I simply have a hard time reading on a computer screen. My eyes start to hurt after 10 minutes or so of reading on an LCD screen. So what I like about the Kindle is that it's screen mimics ink on paper, and really well too. You can change the size of the text or the font type so it's comfortable to you. You can go to Target or Best Buy and see for yourself how nice it looks. The Kindle will read PDFs, but it renders them as images, not text, so if you have a pdf with small size font you'll have a hard time reading it on the Kindle. But you can convert your PDFs to the e-book "mobi" format (which Kindle can read) with a program called "Calibre E-Book Management". Like Gaillo, I have a large library of hard copy books as well, but after moving a few times and forgetting where a particular book is when you have 5 boxes of books, the convenience of having a good portion of them on one device is appealing. does it come loaded with some books? No, it doesn't come with any books loaded on it. are some of them free? Thousands of older books, no longer in copyright, are available for free at the Kindle store: http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=2245146011 best sellers or new ones average $10? I've already put together a list of favorites that I want to download once I get mine, and I've found that the Kindle price is always much less than the hard copy price. Plus there are lots of new authors or indie authors who are not well known who put their books up for like $1-3. I found some sci-fi books for a couple bucks each that I'm planning to download. Also, pretty much any book available for Kindle you can get a free first chapter or sample sent directly to your Kindle so you can read the first part of the book to see if you like it. what else is available besides books? The new Kindles have a web-browser on them, an mp3 player and you can download various games as well. I don't see a need for an mp3 or game player on an e-book reader, but the web browser could be cool. If you buy the Kindle 3G version, you don't have to pay for 3G support, so you have free internet on your Kindle for life.
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