WHY ALL THE BUZZ ABOUT THE AMAZON KINDLE
The Amazon Kindle is a portable reader that wirelessly downloads books, blogs, magazines and newspapers. While the concept of a portable reader is not new, the Amazon Kindle has 6 features that make it especially noteworthy. After reading these you'll learn that the Amazon Kindle is a great start and must have for anyone interested but it is not perfect (see our Gotchas section).

1) Amazing Display - Easier to Read than Paper
It's uses a technology called e-ink that is so far superior to PDAs, computer screens even the iPod that once you see it in person you understand why it's getting so much attention.

This display is a crisp, high-resolution electronic paper display. It looks like real paper. It reads like real paper, even in bright sunlight.

In fact for some people it's actually easier to read than paper because it's so crisp. Remember, because paper is porous, ink is always a little smudgy looking when you look at it up close. The Kindle also lets you control the text size on demand which makes it a perfect option for mature eyes.

2) Amazing Selection - Over 90,000 Books and Counting
You can get books for your Amazon Kindle book that run the breadth of all current popular titles (all the best-sellers plus some) plus a back list of books to rival a local library. With a capacity that can hold up to 200 books (the equivalent of four shopping carts full), the Amazon Kindle lets you carry your personal library with you.

Because the Amazon Kindle is a portable, 10 ounces (the weight of two apples) and has a laser-accurate search function.

Imagine being able to carry around 17 encyclopedias including on-demand, free, instant access to the Wikipedia.

Next time you travel take with you not one but several travel guides to refer to, along with language dictionaries, maps and a stack of books to read for pleasure...in the space of a pad of paper.

If you have kids, the Amazon Kindle is an education life-line with over 1,300 books from toddler to “tween” to teen/young adult and beyond. When out and about, the Amazon Kindle is the perfect alternative for video games and DVDs.

3) The Kindle is More than Books - It's Newspapers, Magazines and Blogs too.
In addition to books, Kindle owners can subscribe to newspapers, popular magazines and blogs such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Atlantic Monthly, TIME and Fortune. The Kindle Store also includes top international newspapers from France, Germany, and Ireland, including Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine and The Irish Times.

Subscriptions are automatically delivered wirelessly to Kindle overnight so that the latest edition is waiting for when you wake up.

Monthly Kindle newspaper subscriptions are $5.99 to $14.99 per month, and Kindle magazines are $1.25 to $3.49 per month. All magazines and newspapers include a free two-week trial.

The Kindle Store also offer more than 300 blobs such as Slashdot, TechCrunch, BoingBoing, The Onion, The Huffington Post, and ESPN blobs. Blobs are updated and downloaded wirelessly throughout the day so Kindle customers can read blobs whenever and wherever they want. Wireless delivery of blobs costs as little as $0.99 each per month and also includes a free two-week trial.

4) Instantly Read the Books You Buy
All the books you buy -- whether you get them through the Kindle's wireless or connection or you get them while using your PC. Even better, Amazon backs up all your purchases. If you ever lose or break your Kindle you can easily recover your books through Amazon. Here's the best part -- if buy a book and don't like it, you can get a 100% no-questions-asked refund just by emailing them with the title within 7 days of purchase.

5) Doesn't Require a Computer or an Internet Connection
While you can always use your computer to buy Kindle titles from amazon.com the beauty is that you don't have to. You can also shop and use your Kindle through it's built-in cellular access through one of Sprint's high-speed data networks. This means you can wirelessly shop the Kindle Store, download your books, newspapers or other content you buy -- all without a PC, Wi-Fi hot spot, or syncing. And there's zero charge for the connectivity.

6) Kindle Lets You Read PDFs, Text Files And Other Documents...Even Pictures
Amazon Kindle supports Microsoft Word, HTML, TXT, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, PRC and MOBI files. You can transfer them yourself for free using the supplied cable or a SD memory card.

You can also have these documents and pictures emailed wirelessly to your Kindle. The cost is 10 cents per file. What makes this option particularly delightful is that you can authorize other people to be able to send documents to your Kindle. (You are assigned an exclusive email address such as YourName@Kindle.com)

An executive can have an assistant email business-related PDF, while a child can send their latest homework essay to their parents.

Imporant note about PDF support: If it's a simple PDF it will convert well to be read on the Kindle. Complex PDFs loaded with graphics and out of the ordinary formatting may not work quite as well.

To see a list of the specific book titles available
for the Kindle, click here

• Weighs only 10 ounces (weight of about 2 apples).

• No monthly bills, service plans, or commitments

• Save money on books. Most best-sellers cost only $9.99

• Plays MP3 files -- listen to music while you read.

• Plays Audible Audiobook files

• Free wireless, instant access to the Wikipedia.

• Allows for annotations in the text, just writing in margins. Annotations can be edited, deleted, and exported.

• Adjustable text size. Great for mature eyes (up to 20pt.)

• Attentive customer service.

• More than one Kindle can be registered to an Amazon.com account so you can share the books you buy with each member of your family on the account.

• Use the Kindle to read any of the 17,000 public domain books available for FREE from Project Gutenberg.

• Select from over 90,000 Kindle ready titles.

• Holds 200 books (and more if you use a SD card).

• Can email your Word documents and pictures (.JPG, .GIF, .BMP, .PNG) directly to your Kindle (10 cent fee per item) or download to your Kindle for free using the supplied USB cable.

• The screen's readibility is particularly noteable -- light years ahead of PC, iPhone or PDA.

• Can use an SD memory card to hold additional contents. Easy and quick way to transfer documents without a cable.

•Because the Kindle is light and well-designed. It feels "right" in your hand, the way a book does, sitting between the thumb and forefinger.

•Includes the Oxford American Dictionary for free so you can look up words while reading.

• Kindle customers can download and read the first chapter of most Kindle books for free.

• Additionally, a copy of every book you purchase is backed up online on Amazon.com so that customers have the option to make room for new titles on their Kindle knowing that Amazon.com is storing their personal library of purchased content.

• Kindle has a standard-layout keyboard that makes it possible for users to perform a universal search across the Kindle Store, your entire library of purchased content and the Wikipedia.org. You just type in a word or phrase and Kindle will find every instance.

• For some people the "next page" button is easy to accidently hit while holding.

• Books bought for the Kindle can only be read on the Kindle

• Not a touch screen. Must use the buttons.

• No backlight.

• Amazon does not sell the Kindle outside the United States.

• Whispernet only works in the U.S. If traveling abroad you can have to either download your purchases using the supplied USB cable or use a SD card.

• Can only buy Kindle books through the Kindle. You can't buy other products on Amazon while using your Kindle.

• When shopping the Kindle store, the keyboard is a little sluggish.

WARNING ABOUT THE KINDLE CUSTOMER REVIEWS ON AMAZON
If you read the negative reviews closely you'll find that most of these people do NOT own a Kindle. It's not a reivew. It's an opinion of a product they've never touched. For this reason many of these reviews contain mis-information. For example many say you can't read PDFs which is not true.
Click here to read the Kindle customer reviews.

Note that the Amazon Kindle Buyer's Guide is uncensored content that is NOT affiliated with Amazon.com. We independently evaluated and aggregated information without any influence from Amzon.

Sometimes people use the words amazonkindle, amazon kindel, amazon kendle, amazon kindl, amazon kindler, amzon kindle and amozon kindle. That's okay too.

If you want to preview the Amazon Kindle owners guide/manual, click here. There is where you can find the entire Amazon Kindle users guide and manual

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