samwise
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Kindles and covers
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Fantasie 19
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+1 ...
Last time I looked I had 43 books on my Kindle and hadn't paid a penny for any of them.. I read Harry's book too.... well worth checking regularly for their bargains...
agurney
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I've over 300, but a fair few are PDFs such as navigation tables, technical manuals and music (staff) rather than downloaded from Amazon. They're pretty good for audio books as well.
alan_d
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I'm pretty sure that Which recently reported that e-books were cheaper from Amazon than elsewhere.
snooks
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No experience of the Kindle light case but I assume they are heavy too, I believe there was a version that used the internal battery for Kindle too but then the battery won't last a month
True the light does use the battery, but my wife's kindle still lasts longer than my iPad...even with the 3G turned on.
The light in the case adds a couple of mm to the thickness, but lots more pounds to the price. My wife loves it though, and she can read in bed with our baby asleep in the cot next to her with out the room lights being on.
I can read my iPad, but at night I turn the brightness right down on the ipad and on the kindle app and the battery lasts for longer
Bandit
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I have the original Kindle keyboard wifi model.
Great bit of kit, you can read it in direct sunlight, its the only way I read books now and long life battery.
The cover i have has an led light which allows you to read in bed with a partner asleep or on a plane with the lights out or in a french hotel when the lighting is so useless you cant read a book or a magazine.
The cover also protects the kindle from knocks and scrapes.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kindle-Keyb...=fiona-hardware&ie=UTF8&qid=1336718943&sr=1-1
Great bit of kit, you can read it in direct sunlight, its the only way I read books now and long life battery.
The cover i have has an led light which allows you to read in bed with a partner asleep or on a plane with the lights out or in a french hotel when the lighting is so useless you cant read a book or a magazine.
The cover also protects the kindle from knocks and scrapes.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kindle-Keyb...=fiona-hardware&ie=UTF8&qid=1336718943&sr=1-1
colind3782
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+1 to an LED head torch.
samwise
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I hope you all realise that the dash to the Kindle is destroying ( has possibly already destroyed) one of the great social activities for cruisers -- the book swap. I can't at the moment see a way of turning "Come up and see my Kindle sometime" into an invitation to a sundowner and story swapping,
I have to fess up, I've got one!
I have to fess up, I've got one!
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Conachair
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Is it though? I haven´t looked. But half a dozen rubbish books onboard for the swaps will keep you in something for the cockpit. You are allowed paper and kindle at the same time
I did a job in the british library the other day. Just won´t be the same with a small room and a handful of kindles
Conachair
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Isn´t there a message or something when you download which states that the price is fixed by the publisher, not Amazon?
lustyd
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I doubt it given that Amazon have just started an antitrust case against Apple for that very behaviour. Apple put the publishers in charge of pricing and take a fixed cut and Amazon don't like it.
Looks to me like they are all price fixing but hard to decide which is the best form of price fixing!
Conachair
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Sorry it´s the mail.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...pple-book-price-fixing-case-happen-weeks.html
Just skimmed it but looks like the message was correct, the publishers set the price high and apple won´t let anyone discount to less than they charge.
But maybe soon...
lustyd
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Not quite correct, Apple have no influence over prices outside their own store. The reason for them getting the publisher to set the price is because that's how the entire store works with music, apps and books. Amazon are annoyed because the publishers are pressurising them into the same deal where for years Amazon set the price they charged (and used their might to ensure they we cheapest).
Conachair
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But they are getting done for price fixing with five major publishers?
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/12/b...ook-prices-shaking-rivals.html?pagewanted=all
That sounds like influence.
Might not be great for the world for amazon to clean up on the ebook front. But we don´t care, we just want cheap books
NornaBiron
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I'd love a kindle but can't justify the expense of buying one and then purchasing books (I know that there are a lot of free books out there too) when bookswaps are abundant where we are in Greece. We currently have 130 books on our shelves waiting to be read. We love bookswaps - and the sundowners that inevitably go with them - and are lucky enough to have adequate shelving to store the books that we swap.
