Kindle advice pls?

[erastes]

OK – feeling better!  Took some time out to destress and to remind myself that Dad’s gloom and doom and pure bloody misery isn’t personal (and other things…) and with a packet of fruit gums and some tv I feel recharged.  Thoroughly enjoyed Downton Abbey and I can’t believe I cheered inside when Mary and Matthew kissed. I have a nasty feeling she’s going to sabotage that relationship though, silly girl.

Oh – did my target of 5000 words this week, first time in weeks. So I can enjoy my two day’s off—barring frantic phone calls from Dad—without guilt. Total words 47k – next milestone – 50k. Tomorrow I shall get on with some reading and beta-ing.

Kindle: UK users – worth getting?  I’ve been given a lovely gift certificate which is nearly enough to get one, and I am getting to the stage where I need one, for reviewing purposes – any snags I need to know about please?

And the red ones are the hallowe’en eggses. Off to bed. It’s really 11 pm in my head stupid hour change.

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Comments

[aishabintjamil.livejournal.com]

Read the fine print in the agreement that comes with it very carefully. I've not taken the time to do so myself, but from what I understand, you're more renting the books than buying them. I've seen reports of a couple of instances where there was some question about whether they had permission to see a version of a book, and those books got yanked off the machines of people who'd already bought them.

There have also been a lot of privacy questions raised. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has a handy guide to those: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/01/updated-and-corrected-e-book-buyers-guide-privacy

also its worth remembering that as I understand it some content will be unavailable if you don't have signal to perform license authentication. I'm uncertain if this may apply to books you've already downloaded. I'd check that out before I bought.

I had some gift-card money to use a couple of months ago, and decided in the end to go with a netbook rather than an e-reader. It lacks a few of the features an e-reader has for reading actual e-books (bookmarking, highlighting, etc.), and it's slightly larger/heavier, but I feel I have more control over it. I don't rely on someone else's server being up and available to continue using my content.

What happens if next year Amazon decides that it wants to re-work its licensing scheme? Will it bring along all the older purchases, or is there some find print in the user agreement that will let them just shrug and move on? Personally I'm not feeling trusting.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

ok - have decided against the Kindle, for those and other reasons and have bought myself an Android.

[aishabintjamil.livejournal.com]

Hope you'll keep us posted on how you like it. I was looking at an Android device last week, but that purchase is on hold kind of indefinitely. We were burgled on THurs., and I'm now spending all my disposable cash on replacing the laptop which got taken. I'm still leaning toward it, if/when I end up buying an e-reader/tablet.

[seraphim-grace.livejournal.com]

you might be better off with an android
they're cheaper, run more and the kindle software is free, the problem with kindle i found is that it won't run books that aren't from amazon, ie no pdfs
but an android runs both the kindle software and pdf software which are both downloadable for free

however you can't buy the android direct from amazon

but in other news, i saw this and thought of you
http://chzhistoriclols.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/dadt.jpg

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Great LOL.

There is this one for £99 - worth it do you think?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003USHQJM/sr=8-2/qid=1288601237/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&qid=1288601237&sr=8-2&seller=

[seraphim-grace.livejournal.com]

i have an eken m001 and after bricking it three times it and i have come to a happy compromise, i do what it says and don't ask questions
but that brand is notorious for bricking

the best thing to do is actually search for it on yahoo/google and see what other people say, you might find that there are simple fixes for what's wrong with it - there was for mine

[mysid.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday!!

(But between the "stupid hour change" and my being several hours behind you, I guess you'll get this late. Sigh. Sorry.)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you dear!

[amnavarro.livejournal.com]

Happy late birthday! I have the American Kindle and it works like a charm. It even stores some music if I feel the need.

Congrats on meeting your target this week. I've decided to particapate in NaNoWriMo this year. Not going to stress just write from my outline.

Cheers!
A. Michelle

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you! And good luck with the Nano! I'll be replying to the EAA requests at the end of the month