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GSNfan said:
Buy it from from E-bay, i just checked and there are many, all brand new.
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Thanks, but having tried to follow up your suggestion, I can't seem to strain out all the American sales. No doubt this stems from my never having bought anything from eBay in my life, and I hesitate to impose upon you further, but if you can spare the time, I'd be grateful if you could point me at an British seller who will ship to France.

Cheers,

R.
 
Roger Hicks said:
Thanks, but having tried to follow up your suggestion, I can't seem to strain out all the American sales. No doubt this stems from my never having bought anything from eBay in my life, and I hesitate to impose upon you further, but if you can spare the time, I'd be grateful if you could point me at an British seller who will ship to France.

Cheers,

R.
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I searched but unfortunately i could not find a UK seller. This seller from US seems pretty decent. In case you pay by paypal you won't have much to worry. Its also brand new and factory sealed: http://cgi.ebay.ca/ALL-NEW-KINDLE-3...783?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e61f39347
 
Roger Hicks said:
Well, I'd buy a Kindle today if I could -- but I can't. I can pay for one, in dollars, with a very long delivery time and the likelihood of having to pay customs and handling fees. None of the UK stores seems willing to ship to France, despite the enormous advantages of easy shipping and no extra taxes. Does anyone know of a store in the UK that would ship to me? Note that in France they use the AZERTY keyboard, so even if I could get a French Kindle, it would drive me crazy.

As usual with Amazon, there's a nasty taste in the mouth from trying to deal with a company that wants to be a monopoly; will use every means it can to be a monopoly (including proprietary formats); and either fails to understand, or disregards, the fact that within the EU there is supposed to be free movement of goods and services.

Cheers,

R.
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Mine came from Amazon - it is so quick and easy to download both free and paid for books from them, so I am sorry you are having such difficulties.

mangie
 
Do you have an itouch or iphone? If so, you can d/l the Kindle app and go from there. My wife has an itouch with the Kindle app and she is perfectly content to using it for reading books. I offered her a Kindle, but she is happy with her itouch.

I have an ipad with Apple's ibook and Kindle apps. ibook seems slower to me than the Kindle. One cool thing is we can share books between our devices if bought from amazon.
 
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wjlapier said:
Do you have an itouch or iphone? If so, you can d/l the Kindle app and go from there. My wife has an itouch with the Kindle app and she is perfectly content to using it for reading books. I offered her a Kindle, but she is happy with her itouch.

I have an ipad with Apple's ibook and Kindle apps. ibook seems slower to me than the Kindle. One cool thing is we can share books between our devices if bought from amazon.
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Thanks for the suggestion, but I have no iAnything and no need for one. Well, apart from this application, and I might as well buy a Kindle at that point.

Cheers,

R.
 
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John, I agree the kindle 3 contrast is low, but I wonder if it's by design to minimize fatigue? It is odd though, needing a reading light in low light, however, it's the same as with a real book. I do plan to get one of those lighted kindle covers. When they're on sale ...

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2010/04/ipad-kindle-ebook-sleep.html

mabelsound said:
Contrast is terrible, compared to paper or a computer screen. But it will improve with time, I think. The Kindle 3 has much better contrast than the Kindle 2.
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Roger,

Not sure how exactly we'd go about doing this but I'd be happy to re-ship one to you from my address here in the UK. Amazon will let you send to an address other than your credit card billing address. We'd have to go on trust and pray that the vagaries of the international postal system didn't intervene, but it would be no problem. I've sold gear on here with no issues, and also on ebay under the user ID terao1970.

This post is brought to you in the spirit of the "lets buy Keith an X100" thread :)
 
I have the kindle and a Ipad. With the ability to add all the wonderful books from Amazon, use the app on the Ipad to transfer all the books from my kindel, which is also a back-up. I get the best of both worlds. There are many apps available for the photo-phile from iTunes.
Best money I have spent for tech.
 
One of the great advantages of Kindle is that in general you get 5 copies of every book you buy (although this does depend on the licensing deal Amazon have with the publisher). With the wide variety of Kindle soft devices this means you can always have your Kindle books with you, or you and your partner/kids can be reading the same book at the same time. Being a bit of a gadget junkie (in my defence I look after this technology for a living) this means I have all my books on my Kindle3, iPod Touch, iPad, Home Mac, Work PC, and Android phone and they all stay in sync. Find myself reading a few pages on my phone whilst I wait for the bus or whatever, its great to always have a book with you without having to remember a physical copy.

As to being tied in to Amazon's proprietary format, you're not really. Check out some free software called Calibre - lets you manage and convert books from virtually any eBook format in to Kindle format. And all free of charge when you're on Wi-Fi or plugged in via USB.
 
I'm sure it has been said before; I like having a shelf full of books to lend to friends, to take up space in my apartment.

Kindles and the like are more environmentally friendly though. So I am torn.

If i don't buy books though it puts people out of work. What to do?
 
Roger, I bought a Kindle last year. My primary reason was to avoid adding additional clutter in the form of new books. I haven't had any readability problems using the screen, but it is nothing like the screen on this Mac. I waited until Amazon seemed to have enough Kindle books that I'd be likely to buy.

But, I'm still buying traditional books, even if they are available in Kindle format. I guess I just like holding and handling books. And my Kindle holds a queue of unread books, just like my shelves.

in the end, I'm just likely to buy more books, in both formats, than I did before the Kindle.
 
I read a lot of sci-fi/fantasy novels, so I bought a Kindle last year to cut down on shelf storage for all those books since my apartment is small, space is limited. It's been great, but like others have said, I'd only use it for straight up reading.. photo books are better in printed form IMO.
 
I have several dozen books on my iPad, including a couple of books about photography. In practice, I rarely read physical books any more.
 
10 years, maybe less... 95% of books will be electronic format. Everyone will have an e-reader, and 5% will be hold outs who like the tactile feel of books (or some such...) Need to put film in my Minolta Hi Matic AF2... gotta roll.
 
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feenej said:
I'm typing this, and I'm on rff on my daughter Kindle. Free 3g web browsing.
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This is the big secret of the Kindle: it includes a web browser and with the free 3G, it means that you can access the internet when travelling without paying the iniquitous data fees that come with, for example, the iPhone. I've just been in Rome for a few days and, if I'd used my iPhone 3G data, I would have had to pay over £3/MB (double outside the EU). Kindle = free.

I've had one for nearly two years and find it very useful for travelling, but rarely use it when at home: books are better. Having said that, anyone looking for an interesting read can buy my latest book in a Kindle edition: PM me for details :D
 
Terao said:
Roger,

Not sure how exactly we'd go about doing this but I'd be happy to re-ship one to you from my address here in the UK. Amazon will let you send to an address other than your credit card billing address. We'd have to go on trust and pray that the vagaries of the international postal system didn't intervene, but it would be no problem. I've sold gear on here with no issues, and also on ebay under the user ID terao1970.

This post is brought to you in the spirit of the "lets buy Keith an X100" thread :)
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That is an extremely kind offer and I will send you a PM.

Cheers,

R.
 
Ade-oh said:
This is the big secret of the Kindle: it includes a web browser and with the free 3G, it means that you can access the internet when travelling without paying the iniquitous data fees that come with, for example, the iPhone. I've just been in Rome for a few days and, if I'd used my iPhone 3G data, I would have had to pay over £3/MB (double outside the EU). Kindle = free.
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I ordered my Kindle in Spain, and while I am in Europe I can only access the Amazon shop and the English Wikipedia but not the Spanish (!) Wikipedia or any other web page at all. I have not been to the UK or US since, access may be better over there...
 
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