I've had a kindle for several months now and absolutely love it. I like to read at night so I bought the lighted cover. Now I don't have use the table lamp and keep DH awake. I take it everywhere with me, doctors or dental appts, etc.

Go to ereadernewstoday.com, and sign up for their newsletters. They let you know what books are free that particular day. Once you choose a book to read, you go to the kindle store (on your kindle), look it up and download. I've downloaded numerous novels from there, that were free or 99 cents.

Good luck and good reading!

I picked up a Kindle last Thursday at Best Buy. I've been researching between the Nook and Kindle and there were so many more reviews for the Kindle than the Nook. I really like mine! I also picked up the executive jacket to protect it and I can hold it just like a book.

Thanks luckygardnr for that tip on free books. I'm going to check it out. I've been wondering if there were any websites that would tell you of the free or cheaper books to download.

I don't know how to lend books to others, I'm interested in that too. More research! Happy reading!

I've had mine for almost a year now. It goes everywhere with me in my purse...no more staring at the walls while waiting for DR's appts, hair color, nail salon...even long lines.

I don't have a Kindle yet but read mine on my iPod and iPad. I use the Amazon App. Someday I may get the Kindle. Books on the Knob is also a site to find free books. Free books sometimes don't stay free for long so check carefully before downloading. Below is the link.

Here is a link that might be useful: Books on the Knob

I don't have one of these but curious on how it downloads on to it. Can anyone explain how it works?
What is the average price of a book and how many will it hold?

I got my Kindle for Christmas and haven't stopped reading yet! There are hundreds of titles for free on Amazon, as well as on other sites, just search free kindle books. When you are on the Amazon site, sort the books from lowest to highest, then the free books "rise to the top".

As far as sharing, the only way that I have found is to de-register your Kindle then re-register it in a friend's name, then you can access their library. It is a bit complicated, and of course the friend must share passwords. Haven't done this myself yet, because there are so many books for free, and they change daily. Enjoy!!

I got a Nook a month ago and I love it! I chose it over the Kindle because you can only download books from Amazon onto a Kindle. I can download library lending books & I can get classics from the Gutenberg project for free. I could also buy books from Amazon if I so desire. I'm basically frugal and don't want to be locked into just buying from one company, so the Nook was a much better purchase for me.

I've been pleased with how easy it is to read it too. You can easily change text size if you desire. So if you have any doubts about an e-reader don't worry.

I have the Kindle app on my iPad and iTouch - works great!

I am in love with my kindle as well. In the three months I have had it, I have over 300 books on it. More on my iPad. I have found the iPad heavier to hold when reading. One of my favorite accessories is my Oberon cover. My Amazon cover (no longer sold) was nice leather but the clip method caused rebooting/battery issues. The Oberon covers are expensive but nicely tooled and very special. Only problem is deciding which to buy.

Here is a link that might be useful: Oberon

Joann it is very easy to work. There are two types of kindles. One is Wifi only and that one you need a Wifi set up on your computer to work. The other is Wifi and 3G which is more expensive but you can download books from anywhere....all you do is turn your kindle on, select get books and start searching. It takes a couple of seconds to download a book.

Many good books are totally free. Some are free for a few hours only so that the author can get some positive reviews. Books in a series....you may get the first book free and have to pay for the rest. Books are far cheaper than paper and hard copies. They usually range in price from 99 cents to ten dollars but I have to say the most I have paid is about 8 dollars. You can archive them after you read them and get them back anytime you want to or just keep them on your machines bookshelf. A Kindle holds thousands of books.

You can organize books into authors etc., change the font size, bookmark your pages to keep track of where you were last, and now even play simple games on your Kindle.

The thing I like best about any ereader is that there is no musty smell from older books. My nose used to run constantly when I read an older book. It is a real treat not to have a drippy, itchy nose. Storage is also easier as there is less clutter in my small house without the books.

Kindle apparently is setting up a feature where you can lend some of their books to a friend in a limited way. Only so many times and the book on your friends ereader will expire in time. I haven't heard much about that feature.

Readers can rate the books and write reviews so you can get a very good idea whether or not to bother reading the book. So far I am very pleased with the books I have read. Many were free and I have probably bought about ten books, mostly those were popular autobiography books.

Thanks for the link! I'm going to check that out right away. I know there is a guide in my Kindle, but asking is always easier. LOL

I now read before I go to bed. I'll have to see if Best Buy has the accessories in Canada. I didn't get the plug for the wall, just the USB cord. I want the plug. When I bought my sons for Christmas, he got the USB cord and the plug. They now charge $9.99 if you order the Kindle (which I didn't see!) or $19.99 alone.

I've had my Kindle over a year. I do like it, but also have many regular books which I read too. I buy from our library's used bookstore where it's cheaper than K. I go back and forth between K and "real" books.

I tend not to carry the K with me, but rather transfer K books to my iphone so I can read while waiting in a doctor's office, for example. I do like the K for traveling. Just have to be careful not to leave it in an airplane pocket and don't leave it out in a hotel room.

Joann, it downloads whatever book you buy in just seconds through a free wireless system. I understand some areas don't access the system, so you'd have to check that out. Books run from free, 99 cents on up to $9.99 or $12.99.
Many of the free or cheap ones are Christian fiction, romance or fantasy, but not all. Also the classics are free--Sherlock Holmes, Ben Franklin's autobiography, Jack London, and so forth. One nice thing is that you can download to your K the first part of a book to start it to see if you like it, then buy it or not. I don't know how many books the K holds--thousands or something like that. You can remove books from you K and they will be held in your Amazon account. They are always yours.

I also got a "skin" for my K. decalgirl.com has an amazing selection of skins. Just remember as nice as they look, the biggest section is on the back where you don't see it. But I like it because it protects the case of the K.

You can go to kindleboards.com for help and more info--it's the KT of Kindlers! LOL!

My ereader tablet is the Pandigital Novel and I absolutely LOVE it, use it every single day and read each night, one of the reasons I did pick the PDN was becuse it has night read and I need no light at all for reading in bed it is well backlit. I love that I can also go online, surf, email, watch videos on it and listen to my music and use it as a digital photo frame,plus I love to play the games on it. for the price it was the best choice for me. Several in the family have kindles, I just wanted mine to do a lot more.

I have several sites I have found that have a great selection of free books, since the PDN uses epub they are very easy to find but some of the sites do offer Kindle format including these
feedbooks

Smashwords

The eBook Reader Blog
I check that blog monthly since they list new free ebooks and there is a ton of great info there.

Pandigital Novel

I'm going to paste in a bunch of previous stuff I've written here at the KT about the Kindle.

But, before I do that, I will add that a while ago, Kindle activated the "loan a Kindle book" feature. Most, but not all, books can be loaned. (The same is true for the Nook books.) To loan one of your Kindle books, go to Amazon.com and then go to the Kindle Store and then to Manage Your Kindle. (Or, from the Amazon home page go to My Account and then to Manager Your Kindle.) You'll have to log into your account, and then you will be able to see a list of everything you've downloaded to your Kindle. Click on the little "plus sign" next to the name of the book so that the information will expand. If the book can be loaned, you'll see a button that says "Loan this book." When you click on the button, you'll get another screen where you enter the e-mail address of the person to whom you want to loan the book. You can type a personal message, too. Then, the recipient must "claim" the book within 7 days. You cannot read the book on your Kindle while the book is on loan. The lending terms are set by the book's publisher, but most can be loaned only once for a total of 14 days (same terms as book loans from a Nook). The recipient of the loaned book doesn't have to have a Kindle - they can read it on their computer, BlackBerry, iPod, iPad, etc., by using the free Kindle app.

Anyway, here's the old stuff I've posted that may have some information of value to you...
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Posted by lindsey_ca on Sat, Sep 18, 10 at 23:27

My husband and I each have our own Kindle, and we both love them. We have the 2nd Generation, with the 6" screen and the 3G and WiFi. In other words, we have global access for downloading new books, magazines, etc. Yes, we can be in Europe and still have the ability to get new books wirelessly downloaded to our Kindles via Amazon's Whispernet system.

You are not just limited to "printed" books on a Kindle. Amazon has another web site, Audible.com, where you can purchase and download audio books. The audio books are available in four different formats, so you can get them for your iPad or iPhone in addition to the Kindle. (Go to the web site to find out more about what devices they support. I know they can be played on the Dell DJ mp3 players.)

Because of the size of the audio books, you don't download them directly to your Kindle (or iPhone, etc.). You download them to your computer and then transfer them to your device. You can listen to quite lengthy samples of the audio books before you purchase, to see whether or not you're going to like the narrator's voice.

You can also download books onto your computer from Google Books and convert them to Kindle format using a free program called Calibre.

You transfer the Audio books and Google Books (that you download to your computer) onto your Kindle using the Kindle's USB cable.

You can also transfer mp3 song files onto your Kindle, and play them while you're reading a book on your Kindle.

You can transfer PDF documents to your Kindle using the USB cable, or you can send them wirelessly to your Kindle, but there is a 15-cent per MB charge for that. (They're transferred for free using the USB cable.)

You can go onto the Internet with the Kindle.

You can send personal documents to your Kindle as an attachment to an e-mail (your Kindle will have it's own e-email address - username@Kindle.com - which is based on your Amazon account), and Kindle's "Personal Document Service" will convert them to a compatible Kindle format. Currently, the types of documents you can send are:

Microsoft Word (.DOC)
Structured HTML (.HTML, .HTM)
RTF (.RTF)
JPEG (.JPEG, .JPG)
GIF (.GIF)
PNG (.PNG)
BMP (.BMP)
PDF (.PDF)
Microsoft Word (.DOCX) is supported in the experimental category.

Again, there is a 15-cent per MB charge for this, but if you don't want to pay the fee, you can e-mail them to username@free.Kindle.com and the converted document will be sent to the e-mail address that you use for your transactions with Amazon (where they send you your order confirmations, shipment notices, etc.). Then, you can transfer the document from your computer to your Kindle using the USB cable.

Oh, about sending PDF documents to your Kindle -- if you send a PDF as an attachment to your Kindle e-mail address, the document will be received still in PDF format (yeah, I know that's redundant - Portable Document Format format). But, if you want the PDF document converted to a "regular" Kindle document, put the word "Convert" as the subject line of the e-mail.

There is a commercial currently playing on TV that shows a man with his iPad and a woman with her Kindle, side by side in chaises next to a pool. The guy is getting all sorts of glare on his screen, making reading difficult. He leans over and looks at the screen of the woman's Kindle, and asks her about it. She tells him that the Kindle is great for reading in full sun. And it IS. No glare whatsoever.

OK, there are two different size Kindles -- the Kindle DX and the Kindle (Latest Generation). The Kindle DX is the larger one, with a 9.7" diagonal screen. It has the 3G and wireless coverage, and holds about 3,500 books. It's $379 and comes in your choice of white or graphite (dark gray). You can still purchase the 2nd generation Kindle DX (white only) for $359, but it's worth it to spend the extra $20 to get the latest generation. The Kindle DX is not available as a Wi-Fi only version.

The Latest Generation Kindle has a 6" diagonal screen, and holds about 3,500 books. You have your choice of white or graphite in the Wi-Fi only for $139, or you can get it in white or graphite for $189 with 3G wireless and Wi-Fi. Unless you spend your entire life in a Wi-Fi hot spot, splurge the extra $50 and go for the 3G+Wi-Fi version.

It is so easy and handy to carry the Kindle with you. No more reading ancient, uninteresting magazines while waiting at the doctor's office, or waiting to pick your kids up somewhere. In fact, you'll almost find yourself hoping that folks will be late so you can continue reading!

You can download, for free, the Kindle app for a PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry, and/or Android. You can buy a book and have it on up to six different devices. So, you can be sitting in a very dull work meeting, reading a book on your BlackBerry. When you're done with the meeting, you can grab your Kindle and go sit outside in the fresh air and continue reading the book on the Kindle, exactly where you left off reading it on your BlackBerry. Cool, eh?

There are thousands and thousands of free Kindle books on Amazon, and the books that have a cost can be as low as one cent. You can download a sample (usually the first chapter, but sometimes more) for free. Read the sample and if you like it, then you can buy the whole thing.

Many, if not most, but not all, books have a text-to-speech feature (this is something that the publisher has to enable, and not all do it for all books). This is different than an audio book. You have your choice of male or female voice, and there is a slow, standard, or faster speed choice. This is a feature that is considered to be experimental, and the voices do sound a bit "canned," but I expect Amazon will improve that in time. (Yes, if they make software updates, the updates can be downloaded to your Kindle.)

The Kindles have two speakers on the back, and they also have an earphone plug, so you can listen to mp3 songs, audio books, or text-to-speech either using the earphones or through the speakers.
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Posted by lindsey_ca on Sun, Sep 19, 10 at 1:34

There is nothing to prevent someone from reading on a Kindle while in the bathtub. In fact, although I haven't read my Kindle while in the tub, I think it would be so much easier than reading a paper book while in the tub. You can hold the Kindle in one hand, and use your thumb of that hand to go to the next page, and the next, and the next, etc. With a paper book, it's difficult, at best, if you're using only one hand, to turn the pages and hang onto the book. So you have to keep both hands dry while in the tub when reading a paper book. That's a disadvantage, as far as I'm concerned.

The problem with getting books from the library is that you have to go to the library to get them, and then you have to go back to the library to return them. If you ever want to read the book again, you have to go back to the library again to get it, and again go back there to return it.

With a Kindle, you go to the Kindle store wirelessly, from where you are, no matter where that is, and download the book you want. If you've downloaded a book and then delete it from your Kindle, it's still part of your Kindle account on Amazon and you can download it again without paying anything.

More and more local libraries are closing, which is a shame, and more and more of those that are remaining "open" are reducing their hours. You can get Kindle books 24/7/365.
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Posted by lindsey_ca on Sun, Sep 19, 10 at 16:51

My husband recently suffered a back injury, which resulted in an extremely painful bulging disc. He could barely move. He couldn't go to work - he had to stay home and get as much rest as possible. He had to be on his back with his knees up on one of those tempurpedic wedge things, or on his side with his top leg bent at the knee and up on a body pillow. He's not one for watching a lot of tv, but he does love to read. But, he tends to read books that don't come in paperback -- his books are huge thick hardbound things that are heavy. Try holding up a heavy book for hours at a time while you're on your back or side. Doesn't work well. But a Kindle is light enough that you can hold it for hours and hours and hours while you're in virtually any position. And as I said before, you can hold it in one hand and still advance pages. My Hubs has said that having a Kindle is what saved his sanity during that recovery time.

For those who live alone, how would you get to the library to check out and/or return books when you're ill? With a Kindle, you can get books 24 hours a day, every day.

I love to knit, but I don't always have knitting patterns with me when I decide to knit something new/different. So, I've put several knitting patterns into Word documents, then had the Kindle "Personal Document Service" convert them to Kindle format. So, now I'll always have knitting patterns with me. And, yes, the patterns even have photos, too. :-)

You can increase (or decrease) the size of the print on a Kindle, and you can also change the screen orientation from portrait to landscape.

Many Target stores already sell the Kindle, and I think all Target stores should be carrying them soon. And, I think it's Best Buy that is going to carry all three -- the Kindle, the Nook, and the Sony e-reader; so you can go into the store to check them out in person.

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Posted by lindsey_ca on Sun, Sep 19, 10 at 19:52

"As for fines...I could keep a book for months for less than I could buy one at ten dollars a pop."

I have absolutely no idea what library fines are now. But, no matter what they are, I'd be willing to bet that they'll be increasing. Because of the proliferation of e-books, people reading newspapers online, etc., fewer folks are using libraries; not to mention the reduction of government monies being directed to libraries. An increase in late fees is one way of trying to make up some of the deficit. Just like the Post Office increasing the price of first-class stamps all the time...

"(I'm a pretty fast reader, though, and don't tend to read a lot of 'heavy' literature or non-fiction.)"

The last time my reading speed was measured was when I was in the 7th grade, at which time I was reading 785 words per minute. I know I read a lot faster now. (The average person reads 300-350 words per minute.) If I had to rely on a library for books, I'd be there constantly.

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Posted by lindsey_ca on Sun, Dec 5, 10 at 2:17

"With the Sony you can read books, newspapers and subIscribe to magazines."

And with the Kindle you can read books, newspapers, and subscribe to magazines. You can subscribe to newspapers, too. You can even choose from newspapers from around the world, not just from the USA.

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Posted by lindsey_ca on Sun, Dec 5, 10 at 19:02

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. :-)

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Thanks for all the info everyone! My husband and I went to the Titanic exhibit this morning, then went for a late breakfast. Before I left the house, I downloaded a free book via the website post above, and I only had my iPhone with me. I opened my Kindle app (I've had it almost a year now, but kept forgetting about it), and in one minute, the book I downloaded to my Kindle, synced with my phone. And when I opened the book I have been reading since the night before last, it opened to the page I was reading last night. No bookmarks or folding pages required! Now I can't wait to finish this book, so I can read the next book.

I've only come across one book that was not available to Canada. A crossword book, I believe called Words. Or is it like hangman? It looked like fun, until I went to download it. Hopefully the author gives us permission to buy game books too.

It's really nice to have Kindle on the iphone as well because you can read during the odd 10 minutes here and there that we often have to wait. I never thought I would read on the iphone--the screen is so small--but actually it works pretty well and you can alter the font size.

There is nothing to prevent someone from reading on a Kindle while in the bathtub.

I always take my Kindle into the hot tub...sealed inside a plastic zip lock bag.
Wegman's pharmacy puts prescription drugs into a great zip lock bag - the Kindle fits perfectly inside these bags(almost as if they did it on purpose :)

I've copied and saved this whole thread to my computer to study later.

thanks

they do make a special sealable plastic holder for them so you can read in the tub or at the beach or pool but I found in the school supplies section at walmart a clear plastic pencil case type thing that has the zip close like a zipper close food bag but it is a very heavy gauge plastic and it works perfectly for my PDN so would fit a kindle too, I picked up a couple of them they were so inexpensive.

I dragged and dropped a .pdf file to my Kindle! It's so easy! And it looks like it was made for the Kindle. This is good because my G12 camera doesn't have a hard copy book, it's only a .pdf format. So, I can put it on my Kindle and take that with me on some photo shoot days. I have one for my DSLR camera too.

I use the Kindle app on my iPhone, as well as a couple other ebook readers. I debated buying a dedicated ebook reader, but I always have my cell phone with me, so it's more convenient. I think everyone I know who owns one loves it, though.

Thanks for all the interesting information, everyone! My DS is giving me a Kindle for my birthday next month.

Since seeing this post I've downloaded 14 free books to my Kindle (I have several paid for ones as well). Many are classics that I've never read. So, if my 12 hour cruise through the Panama Canal next month gets too boring, I will have plenty to read.

Debby, how did you drag and drop a PDF into the Kindle. It would be nice to have my camera's user manual handy as well.

I'm going to go check out the iPhone app now...

Jodi-

We were at the hair salon Saturday both getting hair cuts, I had my Pandigital Novel with me to read and play solitaire, there was a man there with a regular Nook not the color, a girl with a kindle and one of the gals that works there came over to look at mine and ask what it was, she had just bought the new Ipad. She loved mine and said she wished she knew about it before she spent the money on the Ipad.
Just goes to show how many people are using these things now days. I love this kind of technology!
Plus it helps feed my solitaire addiction LOL

How do you put games on the Kindle?

Also, I meant to add above that I've been bringing my own reading material to the doctor/dentist's office for years. I must be ahead of my time. LOL

I would love to have my Kindle show the cover (in b&w) of the book I'm currently reading as the screensaver image instead of Beecher-Stowe, Dickinson, Twain, etc. Some of the images Kindle uses are kinda creepy looking.

Anyone know if that is possible?

Jodi-

I do not have a Kindle I have the Pandigital Novel and it comes pre loaded with games including solitaire
I guess you just get the Kindle games from places like this
Free Kindle Games from Books on the Knob

"kindle games"

Amazon running 99-cent Kindle game special

find more by gooling Kindle games

Jodi you might try looking at some of these results
Kindle Screensaver

alisande, I just went to amazon's kindle store and there were several free games. You just choose to "buy it" and it sends it right to your kindle. I have several word games that are really fun.

Thanks Raven. I had heard that messing with the screen saver worked on the Kindle 2 but not the Kindle 3, which is what I have. And sure enough, I read many, many comments about how difficult it is to hack into the K3. But ... it appears someone managed to do it and posted the hack on Kindle Boards. I'm not going to try it until I get back from vacation. I'd really hate to mess up my Kindle right before a two week opportunity to read.

I also saw that, like me, others think the standard K3 screensaver images are creepy and/or annoying. :-)

Jodi-

Jodi, to drag and drop, plug in your Kindle with the usb cord. When the prompt comes up and shows "open to view files", click on that. Now go into your computer and find the file you want to put on your kindle. Simply hold your mouse on it and click then drag into over into the kindle file. OR, you can right click and copy the file, then go to the kindle file and right click and paste.

Ahhh, that's the problem, I have yet to take the USB out of the box. I've done everything through Whispernet or online. Cool thanks Debby.

Cool! Thanks, guys!!

Jodi, how to you charge your kindle if you haven't taken the USB out of the box? LOL It comes in handy.

The battery is supposed to last one month with the wireless turned off and 3 weeks with it turned on. I keep mine off unless I'm looking for a book. I'm just upset that when I bought my son his Kindle, he got the wall charger too (the USB plugs into it), and it no longer comes with the Kindle, you pay $19.99 for it. I didn't notice that when I ordered mine. If I had noticed, it would have only been $9.99. I would prefer to plug it into the wall.

Good question Debby. Actually I have the charger that plugs into the Kindle at one end into the wall at the other. And now that I think about it, the cord is a USB that is plugged into the wall plug. Since I don't charge the Kindle through my computer, I forgot that the cord is actually a USB. I stand corrected. :-)

Jodi-

Silly girl! LOL

I love the graphics on my Kindle. But for those of you who don't care for them you could use one of those plastic protective screen covers on your Kindle and then just tape your favorite photos or picture on top.

Ok, you all have me almost convinced to buy myself the Kindle. I just downloaded the app to my iphone. That's all I've done on it so far! The battery is low so I'll have to play with downloading books on it later.

Lindsey, I love the idea of putting knitting patterns on it! I scanned some of my pattern pics with the materials list into the computer and printed them in photos, then put them in "brag books" to take with me to yarn shops so I would have the info to buy yarn, or not duplicate patterns, but I've always carried my knitting bag with a bunch of my favorite patterns in it, and my needles when we traveled. Luckily, we don't fly! When we took the train, I vacuumpacked each skein of yarn seperately for a sweater I was working on, and put them in the suit case. I could take out one at a time, and it would puff back up to it's original shape to work with. I knitted 2/3 of a sweater in 10 days that trip! But that bag is HEAVY! With the kindle, I could just carry that, my needles & accessory kit. Hmmm, guess I'll have to check the ccard balances. Trip to KS for a funeral=4 day weekend, gas, food, room. Trip to S. Ohio for bluegrass festival = room, gas, food, tickets, cd, banjo, music stand, & 3 instrument stands. Have to think about it.

Tami

Tami, the battery life is excellent too. I think it is on all the ereaders. A girl at work has a Kobo (bought at Chapters) and went to BC for a few weeks. Where she goes there is no electricity or phone service. She read by the lake every day and her battery was still 1/2 charged. The Kindle has a 4 weeks battery life, 3 weeks if you have the wifi turned on, which you don't need to leave on. I only have it on to download a book. Then I turn it off again.