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Kindle Wireless Reading User Review...

By Douglas H. Haden

 

An update is at the end of this review.

What can I add to what's been said by the 7,081 reviewers before me? Three things: first, why I almost didn't buy a Kindle Wireless Reading; second, some less heralded Kindle features; and third, whether or not I regularly use Kindle to read books.

I read a large number of reviews, blogs, and critical commentaries. Despite their overall more or less high evaluations, I focused on a few comments that concerned me. Chief among them were:

**I realized I'd been reading only the one-star and two-star reviews. I started reading the four- and five-star reviews. Many contained useful, often rumor dispelling information.

**"You can't share a Kindle book." Untrue. You can have up to six Kindle Wireless Reading sharing all the books on your account. My wife and I are currently reading the same copy of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol independently using our two Kindle Wireless Reading. Kindle even keeps track of our individual places in the book.

**I was concerned by Amazon's snatching the 1984 and other Orwell novels from customer Kindle Wireless Reading. What I didn't know is Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos apologized, promised not to act so precipitously in the future, and returned the novels with their annotation files (this document is all over the web, search for `Bezos apology'). The apology doesn't make up for the rash act and his promise doesn't cover all future issues. But I believe Amazon will ride the rocky road of evolving e-book law and practice with the rest of us. Amazon seem to understand their and our interests in this area are much the same.

**For some reason, I thought moving my own documents to Kindle was limited and cost money. It is nearly unlimited and you can do it for free if the 10-cent Amazon fee bothers you.

**From my reading I became convinced Amazon had withdrawn text-to-speech under pressure from the Authors Guild. They haven't. They have permitted authors and publishers to restrict the feature for their publications. That lets the marketplace decide the matter. Does an author want to lose sales by eliminating text-to-speech for their book to please the Guild?

I found simply backing up Kindle Wireless Reading files to one's computer greatly mitigates many what-if/might-be fears. Such information plus taking just a bit of salt while reading complaints (did the screen crack when it was dropped just 5"? maybe, but mine didn't) made me comfortable enough to order a Kindle Wireless Reading.

Descriptions of some of the Kindle Wireless Reading 2 how-to books provide good lists of Kindle's undocumented or less-advertized features: see the mobi book Kindle Shortcuts, Hidden Features, Kindle-Friendly Websites, Free eBooks & Email From Kindle: Concise User Guide for Kindle DX, Kindle 2 & 1, Kindle for iPhone & iPod Touch (Kindle Manual) and Emberson's The Kindle 2 Cookbook: How To Do Everything the Manual Doesn't Tell You.

Over the past decade and a half, I bought several e-book readers. They generally worked but I just didn't read books on them. I tried. What mattered now was, would I read books, especially novels, on the Kindle? The answer is yes.

I use the kindle to read novels, look up words in the internal dictionary, make notes in books (especially nonfiction books), extract text from books and documents to place in my notes and e-mails. I use it to wirelessly search Google and Wikipedia. I like the hundreds of thousands of books available from Amazon and the many hundreds of thousands of free books available. To date, I have not used Kindle Wireless Reading to check books out of libraries and I haven't used its other than book-reading capabilities such as e-mail.

I recently bought a second Kindle Wireless Reading for my wife.

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Update 11/14/09:

I have had two problems of interest. My Kindle rebooted without obvious (to me) cause. It booted to a Main screen containing only the imbedded dictionary; all my content was gone. My content was available from my Archived Items but I'd loose all reading points since I last had Whispernet on. I tried a manual reboot and all my content reappeared along with my reading points, clippings, and the like. Why did Kindle Wireless Reading reboot? Don't know. I was reading with my hand holding the upper left corner of the Kindle Wireless Reading and my finger may have done something to the power slide switch.

Later, I discovered my Back switch worked everywhere except in returning from the dictionary to the page I was reading. Again, a reboot fixed it and the Kindle Wireless Reading has functioned flawlessly since then (as in 100% reliable).

What I learned: With Kindle, as with so many digital devices, give it a chance to be robust, try rebooting a time or two to fix problems. At least now and then, turn on Whispernet to enable the system to backup your variable data.

Do the foregoing problems change my 5-star rating. No. I have trouble with every complex device I integrate into my life. After a while, the device seems to settle down and problems disappear.

I added the Kindle app to my iPhone. It works great.

I really like my Kindle Wireless Reading. I'm reading much more than I had been. Maybe because the Kindle is easier to hold than a book. And... when I go to a place where I may have to wait, I just take the Kindle knowing I have several different books onboard to read.

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