Review of the Amazon Kindle
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KINDLE: AMAZON’S NEW WIRELESS READING DEVICE
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Suburbanmom reviews the Amazon Kindle ebook reader. It comes in a fancy box with a lot of packaging, but could be worse. It is small and thin and most people think it is pretty cool, but it looks like she got a lemon that won’t turn off and won’t connect to their network. She’s returning it and not going to get another one until they perfect it. Personally, I think Amazon should send her a free one on the house. Or at least half off.
March 14th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Many people do not pay attention to the coverage provided by the Sprint network. But even if you are outside it, the Kindle supports a second network (I am okay myself, so can’t give you the exact info on it, but it is available from Kindle). In addition, if you are in a foreign country, you can copy things to your hard drive and then send it by email direct to your Kindle — no network needed other than your email account and your PC.
My understanding is that the wireless network will expand greatly over the future — for example to the UK, etc., and this will become less of a problem.
I really love my Kindle, and am sorry for anyone who doesn’t understand the joy it can bring to an avid reader like myself — reading since age 5, and now 81 years old. It even allows me to read with larger type to save my eyesight. Try that on a dead tree book.
Charles Wilkes, San Jose, Calif.
March 15th, 2008 at 5:35 am
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