Amazon Kindle Review: Your Way to 60-Second Books!
If you’re an avid reader, treat yourself to Amazon’s newest wireless Kindle for 60-second books. You don’t need to have a computer and you can start using it right away. It measures just over 1/3 of an inch and weighs less than most paperbacks. There’s no software installation, no cables, and no setup to get started. You have access to over 50,000 audio titles from Audible.com; and more than 400,000 books, magazines, newspapers, and blogs, including more than 100 of the 114 New York Times best-selling books. Due to a recent improvement from Amazon, you can read up to a week on a single charge, instead of four days. If you turn off the wireless connection, you can read for up to two weeks. Battery life depends on wireless use, because when downloading content, shopping in the Kindle Store, in EDGE/GPRS coverage, or in low coverage areas, wireless use will consume battery power faster.
You can download books directly from your Kindle, without searching for access points. There are no contracts or monthly fees, and Amazon pays for the wireless connection. You can get free samples of the first chapter of the books before you buy them. The books you get from the Amazon store are backed up online in your own Kindle library. The Kindle is easy to hold and read. Amazon realized that people like to read in a variety of positions, so they placed page-turn buttons on both sides of the unit for easy access.
Audiobooks are downloaded to your personal computer, through your Internet connection, and then transferred to the Kindle using the included USB 2.0 cable. You can listen in private with headphones or listen through the speakers. If you don’t have your Kindle with you, you can still read with the free Kindle for PC and Kindle for iPhone apps. Whispersync technology syncs and saves the location of your reading over the Internet.
Are you planning to travel abroad? You can still get books in 60 seconds by downloading books in over 100 countries, including Norway, South Africa, Spain, Japan, Australia, Germany, the UK, and many others. Do you want to take personal documents with you? Your Kindle will have a unique email address, and by customizing it, other people can send you PDFs, Word files, and photos for a small fee. You can transfer MP3 files via USB by connecting your Kindle to your computer.
There is free access to the Wikipedia encyclopedia, as well as the New Oxford American Dictionary. If you’ve chosen to search for something in your Kindle library, in the Kindle Store, within a book, or on the Internet, simply type what you’re looking for in the search function. The Dictionary has a quarter of a million definitions and all you have to do is move the cursor and you will see the definition at the bottom of the screen.
Kindle’s 5-way controller lets you easily jump from one article to another and save the entire article to read later. You can add comments to your Kindle just like you would on the pages of a book. The Kindle notes the last page you were reading and opens it when you decide to read again. A zoom function allows you to fill photos to the full size of the screen. With all its many features, the Kindle is Amazon’s most desired, most gifted, and #1 selling product.
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