When the Kindle 2 was announced, then began shipping a year ago, I happily gave my Kindle 1 to my daughter. She has been cheerfully downloading both books and knitting patterns (for on-the-go knitting) since then. About a week and a half ago, she announced that it had died. When we contacted Amazon, we eventually [...]
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Current Kindle Pricing & Deals
Kindle DX – $489 Kindle 2 – $259 Kindle 2i (International) – $279 Refurbished Kindle DX – $399 Refurbished Kindle 2 – $219 (Good price as still under Amazon warranty) Refurbished Kindle 1 – $149
READ MORE »Kindle Rebuttal-Going on two years and counting
I don’t usually deal in a public argument, but I guess I’ve read one Kindle-Killer article/post too many. Then when I saw this on Twitter, I just couldn’t resist. People who own Kindles and who are book readers are fully aware of all of the Kindle’s shortcomings and limitations. One thing that they realize after [...]
READ MORE »New Fee Structure on email to your Kindle
Per Amazon and posted on their site here, as of Monday, 5/4/2009, there will be a new policy for documents sent wirelessly to your Kindle. They are charging $ .15 per MB (rounded up). I never heard of anyone who got charged on the previous fee structure, but am pretty confident that they used the [...]
READ MORE »Sony eReader & Google, so NOT a Kindle Killer
There was a flurry of articles this week on how the partnership between Sony and Google offering 500,000 free public domain was going to challenge the Kindle’s dominance and headlines went so far as to call it a Kindle Killer. My first reaction was a very puzzled “Huh?”. Its great to be able to get [...]
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