All About Kindle

 

Do you know about kindle?
Kindle is an electronic paper media reader weighs 10.3 ounces, the size of the DVD has not been opened with the ergonomic design of the wedge. Kindle has a 6" screen with a resolution of 800 x 600, and electronic ink display. Kindle's computer type keyboard has buttons on both sides for easy page forward/backward. The battery lasts more than a week with Wi-Fi off, has an indicator light, and charges fully in 2 hours.

What is the use of kindle?
Kindle can store up to 200 books including audio books, magazines, newspapers, and blogs from more than 180,000 items, downloaded in less than 4 seconds, with 24/7 access to the Amazon store. Kindle's EVDO hi speed data network connection(as in phone) is free, so there's no Wi-Fi is required.

Kindle features include auto bookmarking, dictionary, highlighting and note making. A search button on the bottom searches the reader's own library, Kindle store, Google or Wikipedia for each topic or author.

A USB cable allows transfer of files from PC to Kindle or vice versa. There's a SD card for extra storage and listening to music. With Kindle Now you can ask a questions, hit submit, and within a few minutes, you get some. Free response is sent to your Kindle.

About Kindle’s Benefits

1. Good quality ereader using E-ink; Kindle’s is one of the best ereaders, like Sony, BeBook and Bookeen and using the E-ink technology reading on the Kindle does not strain your eyes.

2. Price; Basically the best pro from Kindle above other ereaders is the fact that a low price. This is logical, when you by a Kindle you are locked in to the Amazon website to buy your ebooks. Therefore Amazon does not need to make a profit on the ereader itself.

About Kindle’s Disadvantages

1. Battery use; Compare to other ereaders the Kindle’s battery does not last long. This is caused by the Wifi/3G connection, which drains the battery faster. Kindle’s battery last for a few days, with other ereaders the battery last for up-to 10.000 pages turns which can be a month worth of reading.

2. Locked in; With the Kindle you can only buy books at Amazon. Amazon has a wide range of books available, but a lot of books especially from Australian Authors are not available for Austrian Customers. Why? The protective Australian market, where ebooks are not allowed to be sold outside Australia unless the Australian publisher who holds the rights agrees, causes this.

3. Proprietary rights; Simply means, you do not own the books after you buy it on Amazon. 

4. Content limitations; Open ereaders as BeBook, Iriver and Bookeen allow you to put your own content on the device like pdf, txt or doc.  On a Kindle that is not straight forward and you have to pay to put your own content on the Kindle. In the open ereaders you buy your books where ever you want. 

Other things you need to know about kindle

1. Price restrictions. Amazon is not necessary cheaper than other ebook sellers. Current price are set by the publishers and have to be sold at a minimum. Amazon cannot sell out these prices anymore. This is called the “agency model”.

2. When you prefer to buy direct from Amazon. There are Australian resellers but they ask for a premium price. The Australian resellers buy kindle at amazon for the full price and charge a premium to make money. There is no benefit in doing this for you and a shorter warranty because it starts at the time the reseller has bought the Kindle him self. No other service is given when you have a problem, you will need to go to Amazon when it has problems. Shipping from Amazon only takes a few days.