Thanks for clarifying that Pam. I based my answer on the 4th generation kindles which is what I have. On these they all have wifi and you have to pay extra for the 3G connection. I guess some of the older models had the free 3G without the wifi. I do think they all use whispernet which seems to be the name of the software they use to put the book in your kindle library. It works over both wifi and 3G. My statement should have been that all kindles have some form of wireless connection. I'll look into joining a library somewhere else. In California our public libraries are so poorly funded they can't stay open full time and any money spent purchasing ebooks can't be used to purchase other needed materials.

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 tired of looking at Virginia Woolf -- but I don't mind John Steinbeck. He looks more approachable. :) Since we moved three weeks ago -- and my books are all in storage - I'm really grateful for my Kindle. I agree about it being difficult to go back and re-read, unless you have highlighted the section. I think there may be a way to look at page numbers instead of the weird "location" numbers. I saw something about it on Amazon but haven't had time to explore it. It's also hard to read Terry Pratchett books on the Kindle because when you look at/for the footnotes, you lose your place.

I've been a Kindle owner since the first month it was released and I absolutely love it. My reason for buying it was that my book collection was, and still is, out of control. I never expected to like reading on the Kindle as much as I do. However, I find I read faster and with less distraction than when reading a "real" book. Some of the advantages: From Amazon you can download the first chapter of books for free. These samples help me decide whether I would like the book before purchasing it. As long as you live in an area with good Sprint coverage, you can purchase and download any Kindle book at any time in one minute or less from anywhere -- no need to have a computer involved. It can be propped up while you are eating or doing something else that can be multi-tasked with reading. It can be read easily in full sunlight, just like a book. It is not hard on the eyes like reading from a computer can be. There are several choices of font for those who like larger or smaller print. When you have finished reading the book you can delete it from the Kindle but download it again from your Amazon library whenever you want to see it again. It is possible to download free books from various sources as well as purchasing book from Amazon. I have not done that but know others do. I'm sure there are other advantages that I'm forgetting right now. I do still purchase books for various reasons -- reference books, garden books, knitting books, and books that aren't available on the Kindle. Sometimes I purchase books just because I want to. My love for books goes back to babyhood, I think, and I'm as surprised as anyone that I can love the Kindle, too. If you have any specific questions I will try to answer them.