Just bought the amazon kindle for daughters birthday and its ace. Great bit of kit. Smaller,thinner and lighter than before,space for 2500 books and a usb connection. 90quid. Terrific.
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Kindle or alternative for Christmas gift for mybeautiful, precious, lovely wife.
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Posted 6 months ago #
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How about a frying pan or a 'Black Invader'.... My wife loves hers (ahem).
Seriously, Kindle. They are buttons now and brilliant. My wife bought me one last year and I was made up. Yes you can read on a phone/pc/tablet but it's such a faff. Battery life is short/useless and the screens makes you go boss eyed.
The Kindle screen is very easy on the eye (you can read for many hours without your eyes getting tired) and the battery last a month (yes really, a month) of daily reading (2-4 hours - thanks East Coast
).Buying books is so simple (once you've worked through the 1000's of freebies). Click->arrive on Kindle->job done.
I was sceptical, now I'm not.
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Get her a chocolate orange for Xmas and then wait for the January sales.
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Nothing even comes close to a Kindle for reading ebooks
As said above, they will work with any format if you use something like Calibre for your libraryIt does absolutely nothing else of any significance to bother about but it's got the ebook thing well and truly nailed.
The eink system is superb, nothing like text on a screen, and the screen itself doesn't attract fingerprints etc.
Has anyone mentioned battery life? - I reckon about a month for mine then a 30 min charge will have it full again, it's one of the few bits of tech that you really never bother carrying a charger with you, I go away on holiday without one.I have 2 tablets, a laptop and a phone and I would never again read a book on them - they're a pale imitation compared to a Kindle.
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How do they cope with foreign language books, anyone know? I ask because my wife really struggles to get Polish books in the UK and they are very expensive.
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I've certainly seen Polish ebook novels - never tried them though, on account of I don't read Polish
Can't see it not working TBH
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Where should I be looking jota180?
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No idea what they are but try here,
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/languages/plThere'll also be loads on the usual download sites
Anything really with a .mobi, .epub, .lit file extension will dolooks like it renders the characters OK - just put this on mine to test it
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That's dead exciting, how does it continue?
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Get her a kindle. I have one, love it.
In reality it does one thing lets you read ebooks, it does it really really well, it keeps lots of them & you can download more easily (inc STW I'm pleased to see).
You can access the web but its shonky. Same with email. But you really can read books on it & it is not heavy so your hands don't tire like they do with a tablet and it fits in my fleece pocket and the battery lasts for a couple of weeks even if you are on holiday reading lots.
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Kindle+1
Get the basic one with out the sim as wifi will allow you to loads of books before you go on hols.
The battery lasts for ages which is the big winner over any tablet.
With a tablet it will always want charging at the most inconvenient time.My wife who is real bookwork & loves hers.
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According to Amazon.co.uk, the basic £89 Kindle can do English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese
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