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Discover Amazon Kindle

Saturday, October 25th, 2008

Discovering Amazon Kindle

You too can find the amazing Amazon Kindle services to suit your reading tastes with over 190,000 Books, plus Magazines, and Blogs.  For your convenience you can shop the Kindle store directly on your Kindle or on your PC via Amazon.com - all wirelessly delivered FREE.

  • Kindle Newspapers:

New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times; the list just goes on - even the Frankfurter Allgemein!

  • Kindle Books:

Auto-Delivered Wirelessly To Your Amazon Kindle Each Morning. Get the recently published books available on Amazon Kindle.

  • Kindle Magazines:

Auto-Delivered Wirelessly to Your Amazon Kindle. Forbes, Fortune, Time, USNews, the list just goes on…………..

  • Kindle Blogs:

Auto-Delivered Wirelessly to Your Amazon Kindle. Kindle Blogs are auto-delivered wirelessly to your Kindle and updated throughout the day so you can stay current. It’s risk free—all Kindle Blog subscriptions start with a 14-day free trial. You can cancel at any time during the free trial period. If you enjoy your subscription, do nothing and it will automatically continue at the regular monthly price.

  • Reader View

N. L. Fimbel (Bay Area, CA, USA)
Who would guess that someone who thinks she needs no more gadgets could fall so in love with a Kindle!? Want a book? Download it in less than a minute and start reading–no need to be near a computer. Want your daily paper dry (without plastic bags to fret about), ad free, and compact? Subscribe through your Kindle. Getting too old to read small type? Increase the point size of everything to whatever size suits you. And, since you aren’t reading a computer screen, you get your “regular” book-holding experience without the weight of a book. The only downside: the on-off switch is inconveniently on the back. But I know you can live with that. This is one terrific product!

“Amazon Kindle is an e-book reader–an embedded system for reading electronic books (e-books)–launched in the United States by prominent online bookseller Amazon.com in November 2007. It uses an electronic paper display, reads the proprietary Kindle (AZW) format, and downloads content over Amazon Whispernet, which uses the Sprint EVDO network. The Kindle can be used standalone without a computer……………”

  • Accessories

The Amazon Kindle accessories include such things as a “How To” book, various types of chargers and power adaptors, covers and carry cases.