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Faunaki
Joined: 15 Jun 2007
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 Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:59 pm Post subject: Kindle |
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| I'm thinking of getting a Kindle. Anyone out there have one? Is it worth the 350.00$? And please don't make fun of me here cause I really don't know - will the Kindle work in Korea? How do you pay for books, etc as Amazon is American and I don't have an American credit card? |
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swigs
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DCJames
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 7:17 am Post subject: |
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| My netbook is my kindle. |
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DJTwoTone
Joined: 11 Mar 2003
Location: Yangsan - I'm not sure where it is either
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| Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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| The best features of the Kindle, the wireless downloads and the free web access, are useless in Korea... If your heart is set on an e ink reader... I'd go for the Sony... |
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Faunaki
Joined: 15 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Do you all think it'd be better to wait it out - like 6 months or so - and see if the prices go down and the quality goes up - for both Sony and the Kindle? |
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travelnguy
Joined: 27 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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| You can always get an Itouch. You can download a Kindle application and then read all books that are available on Kindle. It's great. I use it all the time. I have been able to download wirelessly at home and at a few hot spots. |
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Faunaki
Joined: 15 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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| travelnguy wrote: |
| You can always get an Itouch. You can download a Kindle application and then read all books that are available on Kindle. It's great. I use it all the time. I have been able to download wirelessly at home and at a few hot spots. |
Looks too small. Doesn't it get bothersome to read a book that way? |
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travelnguy
Joined: 27 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 3:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, it's not as good as the Kindle, but it's not a Kindle. I use it a few times a week while I have nothing to do at school. The benefit is that I already had the Itouch. I didn't purchase it to read books. Now, I don't have to shell out any money for the Kindle. |
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Thunndarr
Joined: 30 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 7:26 pm Post subject: |
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| travelnguy wrote: |
| Well, it's not as good as the Kindle, but it's not a Kindle. I use it a few times a week while I have nothing to do at school. The benefit is that I already had the Itouch. I didn't purchase it to read books. Now, I don't have to shell out any money for the Kindle. |
It's also not locked down like the Kindle. If I'm not mistaken, if you have a non-purchased text file on your computer, you have to e-mail it to Amazon and pay 10 cents per document for them to convert it to whatever format the kindle uses. |
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Rusty Shackleford
Joined: 08 May 2008
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| Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Thunndarr wrote: |
| travelnguy wrote: |
| Well, it's not as good as the Kindle, but it's not a Kindle. I use it a few times a week while I have nothing to do at school. The benefit is that I already had the Itouch. I didn't purchase it to read books. Now, I don't have to shell out any money for the Kindle. |
It's also not locked down like the Kindle. If I'm not mistaken, if you have a non-purchased text file on your computer, you have to e-mail it to Amazon and pay 10 cents per document for them to convert it to whatever format the kindle uses. |
That would be cool. Shame you have to be American to download the Kindle app. I've used Stanza to read a novel. It's good not great. The size of the text is good but having to flip pages all the time is a pain. I would say reading on the ipod is 3 quarters as good as a real book. |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito
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Faunaki
Joined: 15 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 9:56 pm Post subject: |
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Very cool. |
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