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I love mine for deployments. I hate giving books back, so I don't do libraries usually, and the e-book beats shipping a box of books home after every deployment. It fits in a crago pocket so it is easy to haul dozens of books around with me.

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Peter, my daughter got one today. She hasn't put it down since it got here. It appears she's going to love it. She got the little one, no idea what it's called.
It made me wonder if you ever got one, so I came and looked this up.
How's it going with yours? Are you still using it? Any tips for my kid?

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I have a kindle myself.
I read a lot of pre 1900 literature and there's BUNDLES of it on various archive sites in the mobi/kindle format.

Free books!?
I couldn't be much happier.

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Just found one recently.
Totally blank.
No way of knowing who it belongs to.
Turns on.
Anyone know any way of finding out who to get it to?
Would Amazon do that or would they junk it to sell more?
I have no use for it since I have an iPad and regardless prefer to get it back to it's rightful owner.

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Should be linked to their amazon account. might be somewhere under menu registration etc also contacting amazon should be worth a try.

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:tpd: yep, the settings menu is where you want to go to find the serial number which Amazon can use to contact the owner.

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Yes I did, Scott. Got one for Xmas 2009.
13 months with it and I love it. I use it daily.

Tips?
One comes to mind right off the bat. When searching for Kindle books from Amazon, skip using their search engine. www.jungle-search.com is so much better.
About a month ago, I downloaded the Kindle app for my laptop. I prefer using the Kindle itself but the laptop app can come in handy.
There is also an online forum (www.kindleboards.com) which I registered for but haven't really used.
I really haven't explored much beyond the books thru Amazon. I know there are other sources for books but I have found so much classic literature (free!) that along with a few purchases I have more to read than I know what to do with.

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I like http://www.ereaderiq.com/ as my kindle search engine

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:hm
Gonna have to give that one a try.

Thanks, Mark. :tu

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I have one that I've been using for 18 months. Absolutely love it and you can adjust the font size depending on how bad your vision is. It reads .pdf materials, does audio books and looks like a regular book especially with the grayscale and lighting that makes it look like you're reading a book. If you don't turn the wifi on, battery really lasts.

Then I started seeing the IPADs and other ebook readers like Nook Color. I decided to give my kindle to a relative when I was in Manila. I bought a Nook and although it's colored and tochscreen with internet access, I miss the kindle.

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I agree, Larry.
The e-ink technology is so much easier on the eyes than the iPad or any laptop computer. I only heard about the Nook Color for the first time yesterday so I can't comment on it.

I really like my Kindle.

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My 11yr old daughter really loves her Kindle.

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I took a long look at the original Kindle when it first came out and decided to not be an early adopter for once. When the Kindle 2 arrived I was sorely tempted, but was also intrigued by the Ipad for the increased funcionality. Unfortunately the Ipad is still using an LCD screen and it becomes tiresome to read after a while. I took a long look at the Nook color in a Barnes & Noble store and feel that the LCD screen has the same inadequacies as the Ipad. The technology that really intrigues me in the Notion Ink Adam. It features a Pixel Qi screen that offers the best of e-paper and LCD in one. Notion Ink is an Indian startup that just started shipping the Adam this week. Their pre-orders are all sold out. I am awaiting some reviewers actualy getting production units in their hands to see an in-depth, hands-on review. If that goes as well as early quickie reviews indicate I will probably be getting one of these once they become more available.

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Interesting Gary. I had not heard of NotionInk before until you posted that. Thanks for the link.

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Mark,
Says "your battery is empty" and won't turn on.
Don't have a charger.
Has an ESN on the back though.
Anyone have a contact number for Kindle related matters?

Will try to Google later when I return home.

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Called their main number off my iPad application.
They can look up serial number and will send me a return pre paid envelope and will return to rightful owner.
Clearly won't give me info for privacy reasons.

FYI for you Kindle users, if you lose it, the device is deactivated by them when you report it and no one else can ever use it. That is neat.

Good deed for day done. Now to get back to being evil.:D

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Are you too far away from the Apple Store to just drop it there?

6000 West Glades Road, Suite 1121, Boca Raton, FL (561) 338-0478

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I don't think Apple wants you to bring a Kindle in.

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My mom got a Kindle for Christmas. I was blown away at that e-ink screen. Very cool. I know that CRT monitors/TVs cause eye strain for a number of reasons, low refresh rate, radiation, and due to a false focal point. Your eyes actually focus on a point well behind the screen. LCDs are much better, no radiation, better focal point but not perfect. I think this e-ink screen has no different focal point than paper with ink print on it, plus you don't have to worry about ambient light. Very cool stuff.

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Thanks for that, Peter. I showed it to Rebekah when she came home from school, and she asked me to print it out for her.
I think her exact response was "Sweet. Will you print it out for me?" :)

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My wife gave me a Nook Color as an early Christmas present when I was in the rehab hospital. I have never had a Kindle but I love the Nook. The only problem that I have is that the software for anything but reading is very touchy and buggy but as a book replacement it is excellent.

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I've learned a lot in the last few weeks. Found other search engines and a couple of sites that have a lot of books (many are free).
But the real sweet "tip" is the hack for the screensavers. Now I can look at pictures of family and friends instead of Virginia Woolf and other dead authors.
I will post details soon.

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I did a lot of research and was intrigued by the Notion Ink Adam, but have cooled on it because of software, shipping and quality issues that have been reported.
My big hangup with the Kindle has been the propriatory format that they use for their books, I prefer a more open approach. Yesterday I got an e-mail notification for a refurbished original Nook for $89.99 from Buy.com and pulled the trigger. Figured I couldn't go wrong at that price and I already had a Nook account that I have used to download books onto my Android phone. Looking forward to less trips to the library.

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:tt

O.K.
So this undoubtedly slipped thru the cracks. I will post details later today/tonight.

And Mark . . .










:tg
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Here are the two links to create your own Kindle screen savers.

http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=88004
You will need two zip files from the attachment in the first post
1) kindle-jailbreak-0.6.N.zip is to install the jailbreak
2) kindle-ss-0.20.N.zip is to install the screen saver hack.

http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kind...nd_3.x_Kindles

This link has detailed instructions on how to make it happen.

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Here is some great resources that were given to me by Ron (RGD.)

I have registered for and am using Smashwords. :tu
I have not yet looked into the others.

First up is a web site called Smashwords that has a short and painless registration that you will want to do. They have a ton of free books with new ones added almost daily in addition to ones to pay for. They have best sellers and original author books as I call them. Now the good thing about Smashwords is that you can download them to your computer and then transfer to Kindle. So if you are so inclined - you could give a copy to someone else, especially the free ones. The site is on the honor system in that they ask if you plan on giving a copy to others (paid for books) that you pay for the extra copy.

Next up is Ereader News Today. What works best for me is this: sign up on the EreaderNewsToday Facebook page. Click on the "Like" button. Now each day, sometimes three or four times, they will post in the feed about free books and/or really cheap books. At times you can get $10 to $25 books for under $2 to about 89 cents. They also post links on their website.
Now these books are either linked to Amazon which will download as usual to your Kindle. Or - there are links to the Smashwords site listed above - hence the reason to sign up there. There will be a code on the Ereader site with the link. Use that code to make the books free. Just click and follow, add to cart, insert the code, click update, and then check out. Follow the link, select Mobi and download.

Good for about 20 to 25 free books each week.

ManyBooks. This site has about 29,000 books - and they are all free. Nothing to sign up for. These books are cached actually on Amazon's S3 service. Short version is that sometimes you may request a book that takes a while to download - because it is being encoded - but will be really quick for everyone else. One cool thing on this site is that they have an RSS feed.

And lastly- Feedbooks.com They have a store, public domain and original books that are free. Honestly I have been there, looked around, bookmarked it but with the above sites and my newsgroup feeds - I will be saving it for when I get the time. Good looking site though.

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i own a Kindle loved it as first..but only for day reading. No Back lighting for reading at night. i did not care for the light attachment thing.. my husband and i bought like 10 of them.

I have an Ipad now. i read mostly from that day or nigt. I am not restricted where i get my books from with the apps available.. plus extras, games, email and so much more.

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I got my wife a Kindle 3 and she loved it so much that I got one for my mom and myself. I find I read much faster on my kindle than I do on a normal book. In fact the first ten days I read three novels.

I use the iPhone app a lot at work so I don't have to tote my Kindle to work and sync the last page so I can pick it up again at home. It's a great device!

I love the zombie fiction genre and there's quite a lot of zombie fic stories available for 2.99 or less:)

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Kellie - Many people find the lack of it being backlit as a problem or fault. But the whole purpose of the e-ink technology is to be less of a strain on the eyes than a laptop/iPad/computer. Also, it is no different than reading a regular book at night. One needs light to read.
Also, I find the e-ink much easier to read outdoors during the day than a backlit computer screen.

My :2 and worth as much.

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If you woulda gone with the nook you coulda hacked it into a full android tablet. :tu

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/hin...id-tablet/7630

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What if all I want is an eReader?
Besides, the Nook Color was not around when I bought my Kindle in December of 2009.

I'm not saying it is not a good thing, Steve. I'm perfectly happy with the Kindle.

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I'm with you, I love my Kindle and don't want it to do anything but give me great books to read. I appreciate the links you posted, I just got mine this past Christmas and have not had much time to play with it.

Just a suggestion to read, if you haven't already..."The Cigar MAker" I'm reading it now, it's a great book.

Could you PM me a link?
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The other great thing is that we don't need to worry about glare as much with e-ink :D I bought a KoBo for $70 and it's exactly what I needed for reading books and nothing else. I've got an android phone that I upgrade every 2 years that can do everything else. I would love the back lighting option but I can live with having a $10 book light and $70 eReader.

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I love my Nook. M wife had to use a Kindle for class, and liked my Nook better.

Mine is not the color one, and it isn't a replacement for my computer. It is for portable books to take with me instead of a huge library in a briefcase. As a pastor, that is huge.

I wouldn't mind an IPad, but for different purposes.