I utilize FB daily, and my friends list is minimal. My privacy settings are set to friends only...not friends of friends, so that helps limit my info that gets out. DD1 had gotten a request from BIL's step-daughter (DD's step-cousin twice removed?) and she was vexed about it. They HATED each other growing up, and have never spoken as adults, so why add her? She then culled her list to only those people she actually likes and cares about. I've seen some people with hundreds of 'friends'. Really? OTOH, I am a pubic employee, so a LOT of my info is accessible. My salary, my emails (work), my phone & address. Even the employee benefits I have, so you could find out my doctor, but not my medical records, how much I have in my retirement account and how much I give to charity. So, I guess this is why I'm not as freaked about the whole thing...I agreed to give up a significant amount of privacy when I accepted my job.

Oh I see - you just want the regular one, not the cellular one. With the cellular one you actually can buy 30 days of service at a time through Apple store and have that type of connection. You don't need to find the wi-fi hot spots or tether to your phones data (you would have to have a smart phone with data for that to work anyway) - but they are so much more. iPads are REALLY nice. REALLY REALLY nice! LOL. But I have to admit - 99% of the time I do use my iTouch because it fits in my pocket. It is really amazing how easy it is to type a message on. Great for Facebook, email, etc. Works great at McDonalds and other free wi-fi hotspots. The camera on the newest generation of iTouch is actually pretty decent. Great for pictures on Facebook and super simple to take video. Even has a flash (LED) . It doubles as a flashlight. Very handy in the dark! :) I put the Kindle app on it and have a few books on it so I have something to read if I am stuck waiting somewhere. I also keep notes on it - so my grocery list is always with me. Here is a link that might be useful: iTouch

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. :-)

Vladimir, here are the promised pics. Sorry they are so bad, but it is dark and rainy today. Thank God for cozy greenhouses! I pushed the dracaena out of the way for its close up. The box has a seal along the inside to make it "weatherproof" but the signal comes through just as strong, it seems. I will have to unscrew it to get inside there if the router needs to be reset or anything. This is a view of the back side. I see why my husband peeled off that price tag now lol. I think he mounted it there because it was easiest, not sure if there were any other other reasons. Hope this helps!