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2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
 My Kindle is easy to read with it's choice of font sizes., 2008-10-09
I love my Kindle, I find it easy to hold and when I am reading late into the evening; I find the size of the font in helping me to focus on the words. I really enjoy the option to try out a book before I purchase it. I know you can do this on the computer, but it is so much easier for me in my easy chair. The only issue with the kindle is that I cannot share the books I read because I don't actually have the book in hand. I won't share my kindle! It stays with me.
3 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
Kindle, 2008-10-09
I absolutely love my Kindle. The Kindle saves me from having to carry five or six books with me whenever I travel. It is easy to read and navigate. The cost of reading material is a bit more than I would like, but I do want authors to be paid. I have also found that books like the Harvard Classics are .99 each! Terrific value.
I have three slight criticisms: the internet search feature is very cumbersome. Also there is no easy place to rest my hands and fingers on the side or bottom without hitting a key. The third is that there is no way to mark or save searches in the store to get back to my place. I would also like to see Kindles in different colors.
My other wish is that I could buy Kindles for family members with parental controls to prevent downloads that are charged to my credit card without my express authorization for each transaction. I would buy several more Kindles if I could limit purchases.
2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
kindle observations, 2008-10-09
The Kindle is everything it claims to be and using it has changed my reading habits for the better. I am an enthusiastic user. That said, I would make the following comments:
As a visual person I don't find it very stimulating - gray page, one font, pictures more tantalizing than legible. I miss those cuties wearing expensive watches I used to see in the NY Times. But I don't miss being surrounded by yards of processed trees after my morning read of the paper. I look forward to future kindles with color and images.
The ability to highlight and clip and save same on my computer is one of the most valuable features for me. I was famous ( or infamous) for marking up my books and tearing out pages of newspapers - no more, I've reformed thanks to Kindle.
I am not much of a best seller reader and a lot of books I want to read are not ebooks. I'm assuming that's the price I pay for jumping on the ebook bandwagon early and hopefully even less popular books in time will become ebooks. Even at $10 a book it's bit pricey for my budget but I've discovered a number of free ebook sources and with the help of a program called Stanza ( for Apple computers) converting them to a Kindle book is easy.
My biggest technical complaint is that for me, a right-handed reader, the "previous page" bar and the left "next page" bar ( small in comparison) sit under my left hand when I read. These should be reversed so that a nudge of my left hand turns the page instead of going to the previous page. in other words its more convenient for me to turn the page with my left hand instead of my right but the way its set up now I too often find myself on the previous page instead of the next page.
One I lost my Kindle for bout half a day - being small it's easy to do. I was quite bereft until it was found in the depths of a sofa cushion. That says it all. If you're any kind of reader I guarantee the Kindle will be your inseparable companion in no time flat.
2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
your personal portable library, 2008-10-09
The ease with which you can download books by itself is amazing but the notion that you can carry al the books you would ever need for a long trip makes this Kindle a great tool.
Business books , fun reading whatever the mood you are in the literature you want or need in all contained within this device.
so far so good, 2008-10-09
I bought my Kindle so I would not have to carry multiple books with me when I travel. It works better than I'd expected, frankly, and the convenience of only having to carry one small "thing" is great. A few problems I've identified so far: many of the books I'm interested in (not on the best seller lists) are not available, even though I can buy them from Amazon. The right hand "next page" button is too large, and located where I would rather be holding the device. I often push it and go to the next page by accident. The QWERTY keyboard (used in the "search" mode)is crude, and lacks a simple navigational arrow. The only way to edit seems to be to backspace. And you can't adjust the contrast. But the positives outweigh the negatives. I love it.
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