A few months ago I clicked my mouse and bought an Amazon Kindle. It has proved to be an excellent purchase with ludicrously long battery life and a wonderful screen for reading. I also like the way it works with the Kindle app on other devices. Stuck in an endless supermarket adventure with she who must be obeyed, I can start up the Kindle app on my iPhone and it will automatically take me to the latest page I was reading on the Kindle device. When I get home and pick up the Kindle, it will update to reflect the seventy six pages I read while she who must be obeyed was choosing fabric softener. Neat.
So, everyone who reads should have a Kindle, and now they can have one for even less money. I paid close to $200 including shipping and duty, as of today the price has dropped to a shade over $160; delivered by courier to your door in Thailand.
For the lower price, you don’t get a keyboard; but I have never used the keyboard on my Kindle. When I buy books I do so via my computer, and then just sync the Kindle to Amazon.
Order the new Kindle today and you could be reading books on it in Thailand by Monday.
Also announced, but not yet available for ordering outside the USA, is the Kindle Touch. The Kindle Touch is only $20 more than the Kindle and has the advantage of a touch-screen. It also has the disadvantage of a touch-screen as you slowly see sentences being obscured by your sticky finger marks. For ultimate book reading pleasure, I still reckon the base Kindle is the best.
Top of the new Kindle range is the Kindle Fire. $199 buys you (if you live in the USA) a high quality 7" colour display with the same resolution as the iPad. Several more dollars will enable you to buy movies, books, music and magazines from the Amazon store to consume on the device. A rather clever web browser, e-mail and access to games and other applications complete a rather compelling product for a low price.
The Kindle Fire is going to take some sales from Apple and make it tough for other players in the Android tablet market. Personally, I am happy with my current Kindle and iPad; which is just as well because the current exchange rates means I have no spare cash for toys.
Comments 🔗
2011-09-29| MeMock saysHow much did they pay you for that blog?
2011-09-29| Ivan saysWhy have the IPAD and Kindle, seems like one can replace the other? but what do I know?? I have neither, but because I am having a hard time buying english written books in Taiwan, I see one in my future. BY the way I am going to hold out for the FujiX 10, should be out Nov.
2011-09-29| Spike saysI paid them, sort of. Was looking at the new Kindles on their site and ended up on the Kindle store buying yet another book.
2011-09-29| Spike saysThe iPad can do everything, but reading a book on the Kindle is a much more pleasant experience especially in brightly lit conditions. So, a refined gentleman needs both. The X10 should be good, worth waiting for.
2011-09-29| Ivan saysThe logic is sound, now to sell this concept to Miss Purse Strings