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.

What to Do If Kindle Is Frozen & Will Not Turn Off or On? Charge the Battery If the Kindle does not have enough battery power, it can freeze up. Plug the Kindle into a wall outlet and ensure the indicator light is on, which means the battery is charging. Allow the device to charge for a few minutes; then, attempt to navigate on the screen. Soft Reset If the Kindle is still unresponsive after being charged, it may need to be reset. Unplug the device from the wall charger. Move the power switch, and hold it for 15 seconds before releasing. Hard Reset If a soft reset is ineffective, you may try to reset the Kindle from the back. Charge the Kindle completely (about an hour). Unplug the device, and open the back. Locate the reset button, a small hole denoted by the word "Reset." Gently insert an unfolded paper clip into the hole, and hold it for 10 seconds. Restart the Kindle

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 enjoy getting library books on my Kindle and Kindle Fire. Your local library probably provides this service and can instruct you on how to do it. Normally it is completely separate from regular book lending although it is the same in spirit - for instance three Kindle copies are stocked, but they may all be in use and you have to wait. You receive an email when one is ready, and go to the website to check it out and download it. For practice you might want to search out one that is available, check it out and get it onto your Kindle, etc. I find this particularly useful for really large books. Unfortunately when I read Stephen King's latest brick, I got the actual copy before the ebook was available. It is so much easier to read a Kindle in bed than a 900-page book!