Posts Tagged ‘books’

I ordered a Kindle as soon as it was announced that us UK peeps would be getting one and yesterday it finally turned up from USA. Hoorah!

Now i’ve only had a quick play because i’m putting it up for Christmas for my prezzie. Anyway, very impressed! I bought an ebook (Coraline) from Amazon last night and it beamed it straight to my kindle. I’ve also got a collection of eBooks on my computer that i’ve sent to it and all seem to be displaying just fine. I’m fast running out of room for my book collection so this should hopefully be ideal. The screen is very easy on the eye as it sin’t backlit like a compute screen, it really does look like you’re reading paper.

Some would argue, why would you want to carry around hundreds of books? Same reason you carry around thousands of songs on your iPod, so you have you’re whole collection with you because you can’t predict what you might be in the mood for reading/listening to in the future. Plus i sometimes like to read more than one novel at the same time.

You can even have your newspaper sent to your Kindle every morning and i believe some magazines too. I don’t think the UK version can read blogs unlike the US version yet but i’m sure it will only be a matter of time.

If you have any ebooks that need converting to a Kindle friendly format then i’d strongly recommend using Mobipocket creator. It’s free and very quick and simple to use. You can find free books at:

http://www.planetebook.com/
http://www.gutenberg.org
http://thekindlewarehouse.com/free-kindle-ebooks/

If like me you’re a book lover but you’re running out of shelf space then this could be just the thing!

I think i’m starting to become a little too dependant on my iPod. Actually these books are great, they are from iTunes and every so often your bookshelf gets updated for with more books. Just go to the iTunes store, look in applications and search ‘classics’ (only works on iPod Touch and iPhone).

Classics – A collection of Literary Masterpieces
Works on iPod Touch and iPhone
£2.99 (i think it’s $2.99 in the US cos it’s cheaper there)

1. Treasure Island
2. Pride and Prejudice
3. A Christmas Carol (illustrated)
4. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (illustrated)
5. Gulliver’s Travels
6. The Time Machine
7. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
8. The Call of The Wild
9. Flatland (illustrated)
10. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
11. Robinson Crusoe
12. The Jungle Book
13. The MEtamorphosis
14. Paradise Lost
15. Hound of The Baskervilles

…and more coming with free updates.