Here is a post I have been meaning to write for months. My Kindle is great. I love it. for reading it is amazing. It is so light to carry and every kilogramme counts when you are peddling up a hill. I usually use it in large print which surprised me initially. I have read some brilliant stories on my travels, many of which were recommended and many of which have been classics i have always meant to read. I really enjoyed Anna Karenina or Shackleton's story of the south pole and Heidi all of which were free and unexpectedly brilliant. I have enjoyed getting to know some of my favourite authors better, Frances Hodgson Burnet, for example, turns out that her other stories are a bit weird! Yesterday I finished The Woman in Black, which was deliciously spooky. I have loved having gift vouches to spend and really enjoyed The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton, which was so good i started at page one again immediately after finishing it.
I love my kindles dictionary. It is so convenient I use it lots. I love being able to look things up from the older and therefore free books. I love being able to check the origin of words or look up definitions I am not sure of when Christof asks the meaning of something.
I have even managed to download books in German to read which I have enjoyed wrestling with.
My Kindle is also fantastic because it does Internet. However I do have to qualify that. It does some websites that it likes slowly and only when it has signal which, especially in NZ isn't very often. I can sometimes update my blog, sometimes book hostels, sometimes check other things, which has been invaluable to me travelling. It doesn't, however, like hotmail. It is also a bit fiddly to type on, so please excuse all my mistakes.
I have music on it to which has been amazing. I was too technologically inept to get the music on it myself so travelled for many months without until Tim rescued me. Thanks Tim. Then one evening i was feeling a bit down and I remembered my music and played it. It was super like being at home surrounded by familiar things, like being able to wrap myself up in my favourite quilt and sit in my favourite sofa. I so appreciated it. Music is also brilliant for cycling in the rain,keeps you going.
In America my kindle broke. I was distraught and really realised how much I need it. Amazon were great and I called them and they replaced it. No problems.
Thank you all for getting me my kindle- it really is the perfect present.
Amazon, don't get big headed! an order search by price option would be great. I know the website has it. I would also like more books available- am often amazed by what isn't available. Books with pictures would be fab I haven't dared by a travel book as I think it wont have maps. Would be nice to choose the order in which music is played and the best improvement would be an international amazon account so that I can buy books available to German users for example. It would also be nice to load pictures from my camera. A better Internet connection but since its free I have no complaints!
I love my kindles dictionary. It is so convenient I use it lots. I love being able to look things up from the older and therefore free books. I love being able to check the origin of words or look up definitions I am not sure of when Christof asks the meaning of something.
I have even managed to download books in German to read which I have enjoyed wrestling with.
My Kindle is also fantastic because it does Internet. However I do have to qualify that. It does some websites that it likes slowly and only when it has signal which, especially in NZ isn't very often. I can sometimes update my blog, sometimes book hostels, sometimes check other things, which has been invaluable to me travelling. It doesn't, however, like hotmail. It is also a bit fiddly to type on, so please excuse all my mistakes.
I have music on it to which has been amazing. I was too technologically inept to get the music on it myself so travelled for many months without until Tim rescued me. Thanks Tim. Then one evening i was feeling a bit down and I remembered my music and played it. It was super like being at home surrounded by familiar things, like being able to wrap myself up in my favourite quilt and sit in my favourite sofa. I so appreciated it. Music is also brilliant for cycling in the rain,keeps you going.
In America my kindle broke. I was distraught and really realised how much I need it. Amazon were great and I called them and they replaced it. No problems.
Thank you all for getting me my kindle- it really is the perfect present.
Amazon, don't get big headed! an order search by price option would be great. I know the website has it. I would also like more books available- am often amazed by what isn't available. Books with pictures would be fab I haven't dared by a travel book as I think it wont have maps. Would be nice to choose the order in which music is played and the best improvement would be an international amazon account so that I can buy books available to German users for example. It would also be nice to load pictures from my camera. A better Internet connection but since its free I have no complaints!
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