Oh great and wise flist....

[gothams3rdrobin]

Does anyone have any first-hand experience with an Amazon Kindle?

My neighbour at work showed it to me on the website, 'cause he's looking to replace his books due to lack of shelf space. While I will always love books, and don't intend to stop buying them, I gotta admit I don't have too much room either. Plus there are times when something like a Kindle would be really, really useful.

Case in point, I need a copy of the A-text edition of Christopher Marlowe's 'Doctor Faustus' asap to continue with my studies. It's ranging from £5 to £8 depending on if I get it off Amazon.co.uk or pick it up in a shop - however, I could download it off kindle for under a pound.... Would never fully replace the hardcopy, 'cause it helps with those kind of books to be able to see both the prose page and the notes page at the same time, but still!

Tempted to download the PC version of the Kindle reader too....

Any thoughts guys?

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[moonanstars.livejournal.com]

I don't have one personally but the blood lady who is here every 8 weeks has one and several friends. They all love them for portability and battery life etc. It's apparently easy to find books for on it for the most part but it's not always cheaper to buy them that way. But you can download most of the classics either for free or for extremely cheap which is nice.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

I have one. I love mine, I love it to death.

And it is very useful. I have not stopped buying paper books but I will say that my Kindle has changed the way I travel. I no longer have to carry six books with me for a long flight and hating a book is much less of a worry since I can replace it more easily.

There are a ton of free books out there too. Anything older than whatever date copyright has been pushed out to, is likely out there for free, totally legally.

What questions do you have?

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

Free eBooks! \o/