Thread: To Kindle or Not to Kindle?

Coffee table books, reference books, nat geo etc are still good in paper, but fiction, biographies etc, it's kindle all the way.

I also bought a leather cover with an inbuilt light - $40 well spent. Can read at night, back of the car etc.

Originally Posted by Sir Wilson

I also bought a leather cover with an inbuilt light - $40 well spent. Can read at night, back of the car

I didn't know you could download those kind of Magazines on the Kindle

nook tablet is now 200USD - Barnes & Noble unveils 8GB Nook Tablet for $199, slashes Color to $169 -- Engadget

much better value for your cash than the kindle

and a good device to read ebooks on is better than the dead tree book

If you want to read books, get a Kindle. It doesn't pretend to be a tablet or any other form of computer. Its screen is perfect and is suited to people who like books. If you want a silly toy to mess about with in a bar, get a tablet.

"shut up. You hate America yet are ok being enslaved by it. dumbass."

The above is a most helpful comment which accompanied a well deserved "red". I had praised the Kindle. I must not praise anything American. I will remember this as I try to become a better person, day by day.

One day I may be as literate, eloquent and as well informed as the man who provided the advice to me.

^^ Name the redder.

Originally Posted by benbaaa

^^ Name the redder.

No point in naming him. Hopefully, he will confine his remarks to other matters in future. I feel sorry for him as the poor bugger has probably never read a book in his life.

Originally Posted by buriramboy

They don't look very big for 'long time' reading

body same size as a paperback

but
you
can
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the text size

Originally Posted by benbaaa

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can also download it from cnet plus review and alternatives

I'm still waiting for those cnuts to release the Kindle Fire in the UK

Kindle Touch is ordered. Since they only ship within the US, it has to go to my brother, then get re-wrapped and mailed to a friend in Manila with access to the US mail system, then I have to go to Manila to pick it up. So, it will be a few weeks. A review will follow once I get it and take a test drive. Thanks again to all those who posted constructive comments.

^Thanks, FS. I missed that, but would have gone my route anyway, as duty would have been over 100%, doubling the cost. No duty the way I'm bringing it in.

Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton

^Thanks, FS. I missed that, but would have gone my route anyway, as duty would have been over 100%, doubling the cost. No duty the way I'm bringing it in.

I have all the stuff my kids purchase online sent to a good friend in the Bay Area, she repackages them and then sends through the normal mail Have never been hit with a tax.

Hope you get it asap as you will enjoy it.

^You sure as hell would get hit with duty here. I have NEVER had a package come through in 15 years without a charge. If it is medicine or electronics, 100% + depending on the whim of the thief handling the transaction..

Yeah, my Kindle attracted charges of about $100, postage and import tax.

I was not referring to electronics. Clothing and the such marked as gifts have never been touched. Cathay Pacific sent some cosmetics to them as compensation over a problem on their return flight from the states. They sent it Fed Ex, after I told them to carry it from HKG to BKK and then post it from here. Fed Ex wanted 150 bucks in charges and I told them to take it back. Then rang Cathay here, and they paid the charges.

Amazon charges you upfront for the import costs- if they charge more than necessary (which they did in my case- I believe they charged $50 and it was ~$30) they refund it later- at least there's no going to the post office to pay and pick it up.

^Doesn't work that way here. Once a package hits the local post office, they slap on whatever charge they want. I had a book box from Amazon about two months ago; must have weighed five kilos. Picked it up at post office - no charge - nada. Last month, had an Amazon book box come in - one hardback - 40 peso (29 baht). Also last month, one book box with one small paperback for my daughter - 80 peso (baht 58). Last month - one small paperback, but for some reason sent Fedex - delivered to the house - 880 peso (baht 600) - refused to accept - returned to Amazon. Amazon had been pre-paid postage for all of these shipments. There is no system at all.

^

Mine was delivered FedEx and bypassed the local post office- does FedEx go through the local post office in the Philippines? If so, that's pretty beat- there's no way you could avoid excess charges.

^Not sure. I never send anything here except Amazon. Documents that require quick turnaround come DHL or Fedex - never had charges on documents. On the very rare occasion I get something other than books or documents sent to me, I use my back channel.

^

Yeah, Thailand is hit-and-miss as well- I just had a $150 pair of sunglasses that came through with no import tax as the shipper put a declared value of $20 on them- of course, had they been lost the max insurance claim would be $20, but I've had very good luck over the years using FedEx, USPS, etc- the only thing I haven't gotten in over ten years of shipping things over was a pair of socks sent by my mom from NY (and I'm still not convinced she didn't screw up the address).

Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton

^Doesn't work that way here. Once a package hits the local post office, they slap on whatever charge they want. I had a book box from Amazon about two months ago; must have weighed five kilos. Picked it up at post office - no charge - nada. Last month, had an Amazon book box come in - one hardback - 40 peso (29 baht). Also last month, one book box with one small paperback for my daughter - 80 peso (baht 58). Last month - one small paperback, but for some reason sent Fedex - delivered to the house - 880 peso (baht 600) - refused to accept - returned to Amazon. Amazon had been pre-paid postage for all of these shipments. There is no system at all.

There is, too. It's the "How much can I screw out of the white boy" system that exists all over Asia.