I was recently looking at Amazon.com and saw their new Kindle E-reader. I am thinking about buying one. I would imagine you would have to pay for the books you download but how do you pay for them?
You set up an account with Amazon (if you do not already have one) and when you buy your Kindle, it will automatically be registered to that account. You must set up a 1-click option in order to buy items for your kindle. That simply means that you have a credit card on file and you only have to press one button to place your order.
The books you buy (or get free) from Amazon are mostly in .AZW format, which is Amazon’s proprietary DRM (copy protection) format. When you see a book you want, either on your kindle or at Amazon, you just have to click on the buy-with-1-click button and the book will download to your Kindle, right away if you have the whispernet turned on, or when you do get around to turning it on, from your home screen, just pick “check for new items” and anything you have bought that has not been downloaded to your Kindle will then download.
You can also find loads of free books for the kindle at places like feedbooks.com and gutenbergpress.com. Books should be in .prc or .mobi format. Many free sites have a “kindle” option so you don’t have to figure it out. Feedbooks will even allow you to use whispernet wireless to download directly to the Kindle as will Mobileread.com.
These free books are books that are out of copyright, so they are mostly over 50 years old, but all the classics are there.
Occasionally, publishers will have free e-book promotions so you have to watch out for those. Baen.com, a sci-fi publisher has many free books listed. It’s a marketing experiment where they encourage authors to give away the first book in a series to see if it generates sales.
I’ve found that the Kindle does what it’s supposed to do very well, which is display books. It does other things less well. For instance, I don’t like shopping for books on my Kindle, or using the web in general. It’s just too cumbersome for my taste. I do most of my Amazon shopping from my computer and download my purchases later.
Amazon is not saying when the next version of the Kindle will be released. There’s been some speculation that it would be this year, but Amazon has vehemently denied this. They say sometime next year. Whether the next version will be radically different or better than this version, who can say. My guess is that changes in the hardware will be mostly cosmetic, and that most, if not all firmware and software changes will be available as an update to the present kindles.
So, if you really, really want a kindle, you might as well go for it. It’s well worth the money and you’ll probably enjoy it. If you don’t, you can always send it back!
I believe you set up an account with amazon and when you want to buy a book, you go online from your kindle and buy the book and they will charge it to your account.
I wouldn’t advise buying the kindle right now though. It has a lot of flaws.
I’m waiting the the second or third generation one.
Good luck!
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You set up an account with Amazon (if you do not already have one) and when you buy your Kindle, it will automatically be registered to that account. You must set up a 1-click option in order to buy items for your kindle. That simply means that you have a credit card on file and you only have to press one button to place your order.
The books you buy (or get free) from Amazon are mostly in .AZW format, which is Amazon’s proprietary DRM (copy protection) format. When you see a book you want, either on your kindle or at Amazon, you just have to click on the buy-with-1-click button and the book will download to your Kindle, right away if you have the whispernet turned on, or when you do get around to turning it on, from your home screen, just pick “check for new items” and anything you have bought that has not been downloaded to your Kindle will then download.
You can also find loads of free books for the kindle at places like feedbooks.com and gutenbergpress.com. Books should be in .prc or .mobi format. Many free sites have a “kindle” option so you don’t have to figure it out. Feedbooks will even allow you to use whispernet wireless to download directly to the Kindle as will Mobileread.com.
These free books are books that are out of copyright, so they are mostly over 50 years old, but all the classics are there.
Occasionally, publishers will have free e-book promotions so you have to watch out for those. Baen.com, a sci-fi publisher has many free books listed. It’s a marketing experiment where they encourage authors to give away the first book in a series to see if it generates sales.
I’ve found that the Kindle does what it’s supposed to do very well, which is display books. It does other things less well. For instance, I don’t like shopping for books on my Kindle, or using the web in general. It’s just too cumbersome for my taste. I do most of my Amazon shopping from my computer and download my purchases later.
Amazon is not saying when the next version of the Kindle will be released. There’s been some speculation that it would be this year, but Amazon has vehemently denied this. They say sometime next year. Whether the next version will be radically different or better than this version, who can say. My guess is that changes in the hardware will be mostly cosmetic, and that most, if not all firmware and software changes will be available as an update to the present kindles.
So, if you really, really want a kindle, you might as well go for it. It’s well worth the money and you’ll probably enjoy it. If you don’t, you can always send it back!
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