Ivana asked: Okay, I wanna surprise my Mom for her Birthday. If I buy a kindle, do i have to pay money for every book i read?
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August 31st, 2010 at 1:30 pm
Yes, the Kindle is just the reader; you still have to buy the ebooks.
September 3rd, 2010 at 2:12 am
Yea, but they’re usually cheaper than the ones you buy at a store.
September 5th, 2010 at 5:01 pm
Yes, but you can have free book samples. Check the link below
Cheers
September 6th, 2010 at 1:13 am
Yes, you have to pay extra for books, but books on the Kindle are cheaper than actual books. All books for the Kindle can be found here:
I own the Kindle 2, so let me give you some of my opinions. It is a great device, and I’ve to say I love it! I think I’ve read over 30 books with my Kindle, no glitches so far! And since Kindle books are cheaper than actual books, I think I’ve saved around $120 on buying books already.
One of the reasons I love my Kindle is that it has helped me improve a lot on my efficiency and utilize my time. Before I have the Kindle, waiting time like when I’m waiting for friends or waiting for shuttle bus or some thing like that is simply wasted. Now I just need to bring the Kindle 2 along with me, and all my favorite books are inside it. Another thing I like the most is the text-to-speech function, which means I can “read” books without even holding or looking at the Kindle. Now I like to use this function when I’ve myself busy on some boring things, say when I’m on the step machine or doing some housework…
I like reading and at the beginning I did miss a bit on the feeling of reading books. But now I love to hold the Kindle, the e-ink seems to work very well, it is really like reading books… Now I often read with the Kindle for several hours but I don’t feel tired… And I now prefer to manage all books inside the Kindle rather than my never big enough bookshelf… And like to do bookmarking, annotation, dictionary lookup without any additional thing but a Kindle.
There are quite a lot of free books (tips: if you’re outside the U.S. all the books will have US$2 added, but when you choose to download to computer when you check out, the $2 will be waived, and you can copy the books to your Kindle through USB cable), and many Kindle books, magazines and newspapers are cheaper than the actual paper version. I remember I read these reviews about the benefits of the Kindle when I decided to buy it:
Hope it helps
September 8th, 2010 at 1:58 am
You have to pay for books, but there are some websites like these two, where you can find more than ten thousand free books for the Kindle:
I love my Kindle 2 very much. If you’re thinking about getting the Kindle, I’ll say get it and you won’t regret. Right now I’ve read over 10 books with the Kindle, and I really like the idea that I can bring and store all the books with the handy device. Besides, it uses the e-ink technology, it is really clear like reading books; and even I read with the device for long hours, I don’t feel tired. The internet browsing comes handy as well when I want to look for information on some specific area. My only complaint is the white case, right now all the Kindles are in white color… I think it will be cool if I can have a black or deep blue color Kindle
Yes, Kindle books are cheaper than hard copies. I suggest you to read this review from a top reviewer who is also a book lover, it outlines quite a lot of benefits of the Kindle and also why it is worth especially at the end of the review:
Hope this helps.
September 9th, 2010 at 10:53 am
Yes, you need to pay extra for books, though they are cheaper on the Kindle.
Read this article, it is written by a person who tried a number of ebook readers. It is also the best review on the Kindle that I’ve ever read (note that the Kindle 2 now supports PDF natively):
September 11th, 2010 at 10:54 pm
yes you need to pay extra for books but dont worry they are not very costly and also there are many free books available
September 13th, 2010 at 10:48 pm
Yes, you have to pay for books. But there are also quite a lot of free books you can get on the device, as you can see here:
Hope it’ll help you decide.
September 14th, 2010 at 7:03 pm
Yes, you need to pay for books, but they are cheaper than actual books.
And see here for the recent update of Kindle reader: