Well the Kindle has arrived............

[craft1948]

I've finally given in and bought a Kindle which is now on charge. As I am absolutely useless techy wise I hope some of you good people will be on hand to help me not fire the bloody thing up the wall when I can't figure it out............

[ethandron]

here's another type of cover, could make it yourself if you're handy with a needle and thread:
http://www.folksy.com...ok-Style-Beach-Reads-

[ethandron]

take your word for it dave, am a technophobe :(
it was the problem of everything 'freezing' inside the kindle that put me off, i think bednobs had to get to her own computer to sort it out...but i could be wrong about that.

[Maydup]

Like you Craft I bought my Kindle this week too.

I found it quite straightforward to use and was pleased to discover the USB connection hooked into the power plug! I've downloaded a couple of free books and had a go browsing the web. I will definately find it more beneficial when I'm out and about rather than when i'm at home I think.

I've decided to purchase books via my laptop as I don't feel safe making credit card transactions via an unprotected Kindle (ie no firewall and an open connection available to anyone should it get lost of stolen) So am thinking in terms of deregistering form the Amazon connection.

Places to download free books other than Amazon include Gutenberg, freekindlebooks, bookdepository etc