Kindle: Amazon's Wireless Reading Device | 
| Brand: Amazon.com
Category: Amazon Devices
Buy New: $359.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  5569 reviews
Sales Rank: 1
Color: Bisque
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.7
Model: D00111
UPC: 892685001003
EAN: 0892685001003
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 3 to 4 weeks
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| Features:
| • | Revolutionary electronic-paper display provides a sharp, high-resolution screen that looks and reads like real paper. | | • | Simple to use: no computer, no cables, no syncing. | | • | Wireless connectivity enables you to find, buy, and read instantly—whether you’re in the back of a taxi, at the airport, or in bed. | | • | Shop the Kindle Store directly from your Kindle. | | • | Buy a book and it is auto-delivered wirelessly in less than one minute. |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4990 more reviews...
 Wow, this is good. November 23, 2008
For a constant reader this is just the greatest product. I never go anywhere without the Kindle with me. It is easy to use, easy to view (especially with the print being able to be enlarged) and compact and easy to carry. I love it. It could be improved by changing the "next page" and "previous page" configurations a bit. I recommend this to any reader.
 Kindle unstable November 23, 2008
The software appears to be buggy. Frequent lockups that require me to remove the back and reboot using paper clip.
Also, need to shrink size of right side buttons. To many inadvertent page turns. Also missing a lot of classics. eg No Pearl S. Buck
Greatest thing in reading books since ? November 23, 2008
I have been watching this product for nearly a year and wished that for the money I could have seen one. However, after watching Oprah on Oct 24 with Jeff Bezos, I purchased one that evening. I thought it was too good to be true and the Kindle has lived up to every one of my expectations. Not only am I am avid reader, a wannabe novelist and a gadget person, I am also into what's good for the environment. I was sold when I realized how many trees I will help to save over the years because of the Kindle. Some people are complaining about the money. But, for what you will save in hardback prices over the years, and if you get approved for an Amazon Store Card to pay for it over 90 days, there really is no excuse NOT to get one. Thank you Jeff Bezos and Amazon personnel for your effort to make my reading experience enjoyable and different.
I like Kindle November 23, 2008
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I like Kindle very much. It is better then regular book on subway train. I spend more than two hours on subway train every work day. This is my main reading time. When stand in the crowed train reading Kindle, one hand is enough (when turn page for regular book, I need two hands). When it is too dark to read the regular book, I still can read Kindle.
The Kindle is expensive. But it is not expensive compare with other kind of electronic devices. And the reading materials for Kindle are cheeper than regular books.
I get reading material faster and easier than get regular books. I have space problem to hold my books, but no problem for Kindle. I have difficult to find out a book from hundreds of piled books in my room, but search any article on my Kindle is easy.
The selection of reading materials for Kindle is very big.
I hope there are some (or more) Chinese reading materials for Kindle.
eReader with a hook November 23, 2008
The Kindle is one of many similar devices available. The hook that sets it apart from the rest, for me, is the ability to download a free sample of just about everything available for purchase. One can sample a new author without incurring any expense and if you like what you read you can then buy the full copy. No other device that I know of offers that option. The wireless connection is also unique I believe and an excellent feature but at least for me it places second behind free samples.
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