OK, I guess I owe some gratitude to Amazon for their development, it is time to pay it back....
I am not working for Amazon or any company related to the promotion or similar.

I bought a Kindle last month as present to my wife.
It is the Kindle eReader, Wi-Fi, 15 cm (6 Zoll) E Ink Display
http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/image...166741776_.jpg
This is the Kindle but NOT my wife! ;)

My opinion on it is that it is one of the most amazing pieces of HW I have ever seen!
because:
- amazing battery life (a couple of weeks up to a month per charge, normal USB chargeable)
- extremely light (lighter than a paperbook)
- amazing screen technology! Never seen something like this, you can read under direct sunlight, even while wearing sunglasses, and the more light falls on to it, the more white (like a book page) the screen looks like.
- you can adjust the size of the text (the older you get, the bigger it has to be ;) )
- you can e-mail to your "Kindle-e-mail-address" (you get a specific one with the Kindle you bought) any PDF, DOC, etc file and within minutes it will be converted to Kindle-format and be sent to your Kindle (provided your Kindle is within WiFi network)
- All your books and files you sent to it are stored centrally at Amazon (you do not lose them if your Kindle get destroyed).
- You can share the books among the Kindles of your family (provided the Kindles are all under the same Amazon account).
- It costs 99USD or even less depending on the country.
- It saves a lot more space having a Kindle than filling up tons os shelves with paperbacks.

I am using it because I live in a country where it is very difficult to buy German books.
Now I can log into Amazon Germany, buy the book I want and within minutes it will appear in my Kindle. Previously, I would have to wait for weeks for a German paperbook to arrive (and it would cost me 2-3 times the cost of the book due to transportation costs).

My personal opinion as a user, Amazon did a great job with this Kindle model. And the price is right, too.

~S~

+1

I've had mine about a year now and I've bought two of the new model; for my wife and my sister-in-law @ Christmas.

Remember when you whine because was hit by a tank in the Il-2?

http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/1114/tanksb.jpg

:)

Sokol1

Kindle? Nook? iPad? Can't stop the onslaught of progress... Can't wait till we plug our brains into the Virtual 3D world of online gaming... WW2: Total Immersion... Put on the sensory feedback suit.... Set the timer and go back in time... Mentallly and physically...

May require some form of medication... But what the hell! :twisted:

Reality and mortality suck!... Who's with me?! Raaaid?!!

:grin:

Downloaded onto the Kindle app on my Windows phone. Where it is very easy to read. Thanks for the link Dano.

RedToo.