On Monday, 8th November 2010 at 16:23:09 (GMT -0500 EST), Bowerbird@aol.com wrote :
but of course it's not the hardware that makes the kindle attractive, not in the slightest. it's the e-book inventory which amazon offers.
Speak for yourself. I only use my Kindle and Kindle DX to read free books. I've never bought an e-book from Amazon, nor do I intend to. (There is the added offence to us European Kindle holders that we're even supposed to pay for downloading Amazon's "free" e-books, a couple of dozen euro-cents for every "free" e-book! And there's a rather heavy surcharge on Amazon's US price for every regular e-book, plus many of them cannot be purchased in Europe.) Still, even without ever purchasing any Amazon e-books, the Kindles are wondeful devices, and I couldn't go without them. (The iPad is wonderful, too, after it gets dark! I use Kindles in daytime, and the iPad in nighttime, and the iPhone while moving about -- Stanza app, naturally.) -- Yours, Alex. www.aboq.org [processed by "The Bat!", Version 4.2.10.12]