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.
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.
I didn't know you could download those kind of Magazines on the KindleOriginally Posted by Sir Wilson
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.
I got a Kindle Keyboard with free WiFi and 3G just after Christmas. Looks very smart in its leather cover. I spent a dfay getting hold of about 1,800 free books from the interweb (Demonoid and Thepiratebay), and I'm as happy as Larry. I also downloaded an application for my PC called Calibre, which makes things all neat and tidy. If the dodgy site you've got your books from doesn't supply authors' names, book covers or reviews, or whatever, Calibre will go off to the internet and find all that stuff for you. Then it attaches it all as metadata to your books.
Demonoid.me
Download music, movies, games, software! The Pirate Bay - The galaxy's most resilient BitTorrent site
calibre - E-book management
The sleep of reason brings forth monsters.
"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.
Which retard sent you that?
I must admit I dumped the Kindle and got the Fire. Love it as a book reader and a simple tablet/mail device.
I'll keep the Tab and the eee until the Transformer Prime HD or the Padfone come out, then decide which one to buy.
If you are going from no Kindle to just read books, the screen quality of the Kindle Touch is hard to beat.
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^^ Name the redder.
body same size as a paperbackOriginally Posted by buriramboy
but
you
can
change
the text size
good selection
also need a bit torrent client , after choosing the book on say the pirate bay, or demonide
to deliver the data to your computer
eg
Download - µTorrent - a (very) tiny BitTorrent client
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.
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Davis, the Kindle Touch is available for shipping internationally (it's advertised on the front page of Amazon- http://www.amazon.com)- I got mine to Thailand in three days.
Kindle Touch
Kindle Touch, Wi-Fi, 6" E Ink Display - for international shipment
Kindle Touch: Touchscreen e-Reader with Wi-Fi, 6" E Ink Display
There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
HST
^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.Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton
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.
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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.
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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).
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