Hello you Kindle Users - Advice please

[DTCwordfan]

Many thanks for your birthday greetings two days ago.

My family comingled together and have assembled £140 of vouchers on Amazon for a Kindle. (I do love reading and the prospect of travelling with just the Kindle is alluring)

Would you go for their standard model at £111 or their 3G one at £152?

I have wifi here and most of my cafes I use have it as well. Travel wise, my overseas trips have cut back, but the USA would require covergae, though again I have no issue with wifi coverage on my PC

Do I hold back for their colour model which I have heard is coming....and if so what sort of price am I looking at?

I gather you can download newspapers - the advantage of colour would be for magazines etc....but I can live with b and w, if it is, say £50 plus more than the 3G......

Many thanks in advance.....

Are there any free Kindle books too?

[SlackAlice]

Not wishing to divert you from a Kindle but have you considered a Sony ebook reader?
I looked at a Kindle late last year, but was put off by the fact that any books you purchase can be removed by Amazon for reasons of their own.

[bednobs]

loads of free books. personally i would (and have gone for) the 3g one - it was really useful when i was in hospital and there was no wireless.
There's been rumours of a colour one for a while and you could be waiting ages

[atika]

Hi i dont know much at all about the kindle but from what i heard i think its worth it to pay an extra £12 as you have £140 worth of vouchers already for the 3G Kindle as in the long term i think its worthwhile that depends on how much you read and whether you think you really need the extra 3G i have heard about the kindle 4 which is very likely to have colour but it gives no infomation about the price, i think that the purpose of a kindle is to read not the appearence (colour) so i personally think that it isnt really worth it to pay extra for colour. I am quite sure that some websites offer you free kindle books to download however whether the websites are 100% safe and trust-worthy i am not sure, hopefully that might of helped you and all the best in buying your kindle.

[gingejbee]

You may find this useful (from Computeractive):


http://www.computerac...compared-proper-books

[DTCwordfan]

thanks for your input, all of you!

[hc4361]

You don't need 3G. You can buy/download your books over wifi at any time.

I love my Sony eReader.

[DTCwordfan]

Can you put your own documents on it - I write a lot for technology and also have a novel on the go, as well as another in the planning phase? say a conversion from a .doc or .rtf file?

[bednobs]

not sure - you can put pdf's on them

[hc4361]

I can on my Sony. I can download documents (or books, music etc) to a memory card and use that in the Sony.
Or connect my Sony to my pc and transfer to the inbuilt memory if I prefer. No wireless or 3G, but I don't need it.

[modeller]

The advantage of the 3g it gives you Free Internet access. It is a limited access but I use it to access Google and Wiki for doing crosswords when WIFI is not available. The keyboard is fiddley but for occassional use when I can't get to a PC it's ok and its free. All the other ebooks charge .
I also bought the protective cover which has a built in light . It also makes it easier to hold especially in bed. As and when a colour Kindle becomes available which is a long way off, it will be much more expensiuve.

[modeller]

PS There are thousands of free books in English and foreign languages.
They are books which are out of copy-write and from new authors who are trying to get known. The Kindle can hold 3500 books and they are always available to you from Amazon.

[maclarencat]

I agree you should buy the lit cover. Perfect for reading in bed and the cover makes it feel more like a standard book. I got mine at Christmas last year and I still love it. If I am going away I just download lots of books to keep me going. Amazon have lots of free books and ones at 69p and 99p

[hc4361]

I have the lit cover for my Sony

[rov1100]

Colour models should be in the shops quite soon. That will mean the b&w versions will drop in price.

http://techcrunch.com...cted-before-holidays/

[rov1100]

I don't know if there's a catch but Kindles are going for less than £12

http://techcrunch.com...cted-before-holidays/

[rov1100]

See advert on right of this reference ie bidwiz