Not to be outdone by Barnes and Noble dropping nook prices, Amazon has a new price on their latest edition, 6″ Kindle with global wireless. It’s now $189.00, with free 2-day shipping. These announcements are good news for people who’ve been wanting an ebook reader!
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It was too tempting; I bought one yesterday when the price dropped to $189. It will be delivered to my door on Wednesday 🙂
I just read an article that LP is releasing an e-reader with a built-in solar panel.
http://solarlighting-s.com/solar-e-book/
The technology is slowly catching up with my needs…
Tetsubo
A solar panel would be nice for charging while you’re out camping. Even at 20 grams (0.0441 pounds) which isn’t very much, I don’t think I’d want it connected to the ebook while I’m reading. It doesn’t say if you can disconnect it from the reader but I bet you can. Pretty cool!
I had to wait around the house for UPS to deliver my Kindle 2 E-reader. It finally arrived around 2pm and I started reading the manual. I wanted to see if I could go online with it to get my email. After fiddling around trying to get my password entered correctly with the small keyboard, I logged into my Gmail account and read and sent emails. It is slow; about as slow as dialup, but useable in a pinch. I then went to my CopperMountainMesa.com Website and it loaded correctly and the pictures on the site were viewable. On both the email and website the navigation was somewhat awkward but I believe that’s because I’m not used to the keyboard; in time I’ll have that down. I went to the Kindle site at Amazon to find free books. The Kindle was already setup with my Amazon account and I didn’t have to do anything. I found that it was difficult to find the section for free books and I ended up going online with my computer to get the titles I wanted, and then enter them into the Kindle books search on the Amazon Kindle site. I downloaded three free Star Wars ebooks in minutes and without any hassles. Tomorrow I’ll start reading an ebook. All in all I found that the Kindle 2 is all that I expected; and getting my email and the web, even being slow as it is, was a big plus!
@Bob Congrats on your new toy!
Thanks Julie!
I like new toys 🙂
@Bob I’m glad you’re happy with your new Kindle. I personally think everybody needs an ebook reader of some type.
@Janet
Now all I need to do is find some good ebooks to read 🙂
Thanks!
@Bob I suggest you start with Watchers by Dean Koontz. It’s a great book!
@Bob Take Janet’s advice. I did. I enjoyed the book 🙂
I like Koontz! I’ll give it a go and download it.
Thanks!