I finally managed to download the Kindle manual to my computer and it is so much easier for me to navigate on the computer that on the Kindle. I found a good Kindle board and have joined. Thanks for answering, I understand that someone as challenged a I porbably is annoying to a technically oriented group. Wish me luck!

While I was in Virginia last week, I saw my Aunt's kindle and was very impressed, so I ordered one! LOL! I can't help myself, had to have it. Anyway, my DD suggested that maybe you could get downloads from the public library. I don't know if it's possible, but I'm willing to look into it. I'm sure if you could, it would only be a loan for the standard amount of time, but why not? Had anybody else looked into the library for this application? Laurel

Fran1523 -- Nook owners can lend each book only ONCE, for a period of 14 days. And if you "make the offer to lend" a book but the recipient doesn't accept it within 7 days, or rejects it altogether, you cannot lend it to anyone else. You cannot retract an offer to lend once the offer has been made. The lending feature will be available to Kindle owners very soon, so it is no longer an "advantage" for the Nook. Taigen -- The following is from the Amazon web site: "We are excited to now ship Kindle to Canada. Customers in Canada will enjoy: Books in Under 60 Seconds: Think of a book and you could be reading it in under a minute. Free Wireless: Free 3G wireless lets you download books right from your Kindle. No monthly fees, service plans, or hunting for Wi-Fi hotspots. For non-U.S. customers, there are also no additional charges for wireless delivery in or outside your home country. See Coverage Map. See Wireless Terms and Conditions Growing Selection: Over 530,000 English-language books to choose from; plus U.S. and international newspapers and magazines are available for your country. Because publishers give us eBook rights on a country by country basis, available titles for your country will vary from our current U.S selection. We are actively working with publishers to get the rights to all titles for every country and adding this selection every day. Check the Kindle Store to see available titles. Low Book Prices: New York Times® Best Sellers and New Releases are $11.99, unless marked otherwise. You'll also find many books for less - over 135,000 titles are priced under $5.99" I don't think it's that any particular publishing house won't allow any of its books to be sold to Canada (or any country other than the USA), but it's more on a book-by-book basis. It's just a matter of time before all books available in the USA will be available in other countries. But, as it says on the Amazon web site, you can check the availability of books at any time, so if you're thinking of getting a Kindle, look to see if books you'd want are available. Nooks cannot be sold to anyone outside of the USA, so even with limited e-book availability, the Kindle is obviously the better choice. Nook owners keep mentioning the ability to get library books on their Nooks. I've searched for information on the Barnes and Noble web site, but cannot find anything about this. So, the only comment I can make is that if you have to go to the library to "borrow" the book onto your Nook, I don't see any advantage to that at all. It's so nice, with the Kindle, to be able to download books wherever you are at any time of the day or night. And I would imagine that you only get to have the library book for a specific period of time, and I don't like that at all. When you buy a Kindle book (or download a free Kindle book), it's yours forever. Even if you delete it from your Kindle, you can still download it again for free because it's in your Amazon Kindle account. Kindles in the USA have a one-year warranty. Kindles sold to folks in Canada have a one-year warranty. Canadians would have to send their Kindle to the USA for warranty service. I'm in California, and I'd have to send my Kindle elsewhere in the USA for warranty service, so we're even on that one. :-) Murray's Mom -- LOL! We have at least 800 physical books here in the house (hardbound and paperbacks; and, no, we haven't read all of them), but that didn't stop us from getting Kindles! We have the 2nd generation Kindles, so ours hold approximately 1,500 books each. The latest generation Kindles hold at approximately 3,500 books each. It's a heck of a lot easier to carry 100 books with you on a Kindle than it is to haul 100 physical books around with you! In fact, that's one of the driving reasons when I bought a Kindle for my husband. We both love to read, and when we go on vacation, we both always take books with us. But Hubs pretty much only buys hardbound books, and he tends to buy HUGE (thick) books. Try hauling four big, heavy, hardbound books in a carryon when you're flying somewhere. Ouch. Carrying a Kindle is a breeze. You can pretty much always have the Kindle with you, so you can read whenever you have a few minutes free - like waiting for a meeting to start, or while waiting for a bridge to "do its thing." We have two bridges in Sacramento - the Tower Bridge is a vertical lift bridge, and the I Street Bridge is a metal truss swing bridge. If you get stopped at the I Street Bridge as it begins "its thing," you're going to be there for at least 15 minutes. The Tower Bridge takes about 7-8 minutes. Many medical offices don't have magazines in waiting rooms now because of the risk/potential of passing germs, so if you have your Kindle with you, you get to read what you want to read while you're waiting. :-)

I'm on my second Kindle, and it's genuinely one of my favorite possessions. Thoughts on your questions: Whether you buy the 8 or 10 inch version, you'll be able to adjust the print size to whatever you prefer at the moment. Personally, I find that I like to "up" my print size in the evenings; perhaps my eyes are tired. Reason to go with the 8" -- it may be a bit lighter, and if you're a lay-on-your-back reader like me, you may appreciate that slight difference. Reason to go with the 10" -- you'll "turn the page" less often. My first Kindle reached the same point you're describing: The battery wouldn't hold a charge. I'd fully charge it, and I could get all of 30 minutes of reading out of it. Thing is, all rechargeable batteries have a limited lifespan ... eventually every rechargeable battery will reach the point you're describing, and -- for a Kindle -- it's better to get a newer, nicer model than to replace the battery. Kindles are becoming cheaper and nicer ... my original Kindle cost over $300 and wasn't as nice as the $99 versions available today. Someone else mentioned a Fire. If you're a reader, I'd avoid the Fire. Because the Fire does more things, its battery just doesn't hold a candle to the Kindle's battery. When my current Kindle was new, it'd hold a charge (with heavy use) over three weeks (assuming the wifi's turned off) ... a Fire's battery charge is measured in hours. When you get any new rechargeable battery, you need to allow it to "run down" 100% the first time you use it ... it kind of "sets up" the battery for a longer lifespan. When I got my new, current Kindle (3-4 years ago?), I was surprised at just much faster it was. Now it may be reaching the end of its lifespan. Last thought: Moving all my books and categories from the old Kindle to the new was super easy (and I have over 1000 books). I can only assume that a game would move just as easily.