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Kindle: Amazon's Wireless Reading Device | 
| Brand: Amazon.com
Category: Amazon Devices
Buy New: $359.00
Rating:  4984 reviews
Sales Rank: 1
Color: Bisque
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.7
UPC: 892685001003
EAN: 0892685001003
ASIN: B000FI73MA
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Revolutionary electronic-paper display provides a sharp, high-resolution screen that looks and reads like real paper. | | • | Simple to use: no computer, no cables, no syncing. | | • | Wireless connectivity enables you to find, buy, and read instantly—whether you’re in the back of a taxi, at the airport, or in bed. | | • | Shop the Kindle Store directly from your Kindle. | | • | Buy a book and it is auto-delivered wirelessly in less than one minute. |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4979 more reviews...
 Like books? Change your life forever. October 12, 2008
Seth Davidson (California)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The benefits of using a Kindle have been accurately described in detail by numerous reviewers. For book lovers who are considering the switch and are concerned about cost, usability, imminent upgrades, and other issues, there's a very simple argument for why the Kindle will change your life forever.
The Kindle will free you (mostly) from the hideousness of having to own paper books.
All book lovers are in a sense book haters. That hatred stems in part from the awful problem of "What do I do with my books after I've read them?" Books clutter your home. Your office. Your bathroom. They are bulky, heavy, unsightly, smelly, and quickly overflow even the most capacious bookshelves. Only the most clueless think that books are an attractive way to decorate a home.
Although a few hundred well placed and well titled hardback tomes will spruce up your library and lend a certain elan by impressing visitors that you read Dostoevsky as well as Hawkings, for the most part your book collection is an albatross of dusty, stinky paper that all the non-readers around you despise.
The Kindle does for your book collection what the CD did for your vinyls and what the iPod has now done for all your CD's: it will clean up your home and your living space and will free you from the drudgery of dealing with hundreds of items that you never use.
This is a perfect lead-in to the second source of book hatred, but by no means the last. Most books will never be re-read, at least by you, and if you're really a reader, many of the books you buy and most of the books you're given will never be read at all. Every ten years or so you may take a trunkload down to Half Priced Books, but for the most part book readers end up being book hoarders as well. What is more senseless than hoarding books you'll never read? What an extraordinary waste.
What's worse, those unread books sit on your shelves or lay by your bed as a reproach.
They cry out, "You've not read me yet," and each time you see them you feel guilt, a guilt that actually makes it difficult to read the books you like. "How can I read that trashy novel when I've yet to read 'Team of Rivals' that my brother so thoughtfully sent me?'"
The Kindle will cure your book guilt by tucking all those titles into your Amazon account so you never have to look at them or be bothered by them. You can download the complete works of Shakespeare for $1.99 and never look at it again, knowing it's there and knowing you won't have to move your children's beds out into the garage in order to make room for the entire boxed set. When you're ready to read, they're ready for you: it's like free, consensual relationships with no strings attached.
Books often serve the unwanted function of guilt induction discussed above, and serve as their own obstruction to further reading in other ways as well, primarily through the curse of place holding. Place holding is a simple concept, and the bane of every reader. As soon as you put the book down, you have to mark where you stopped. Then you have to remember where you stopped in order to pick it back up. This is no big deal if you're only reading one or two books at the same time, but what if you're reading ten, or twenty? What if two years have lapsed in between peeks?
Do you really have twenty little tasseled bookmarks to remind you where you stopped with each one? Of course not. You have to thumb through the book and try to remember where you left off by trying to recall what it was you last read.
With the Kindle, it takes you to your last stopping point and you can plunge right in. You'll gradually remember what you read before as you continue. It's lightning fast, seamless, and allows you to dabble in multiple books in a way that paper books never could.
Book hatred, however, is most acute when it comes to travel. How many times have you miserably lugged your bags, your briefcase, your knapsack, through terminals, trains, or crammed into tiny overhead bins all because of your books? Books are the thing that make much travel meaningful, but are also the one thing that can positively ruin your trip.
You can't take enough books, so you either have to rely on the vomitous offerings of airport bookstores, or pack before you go. Yet even the most judicious pre-trip selections never quite fit. The book wasn't as good as you hoped, or you're in the mood for something else, or you finish it quicker than you'd expected. All of these scenarios occur all the time, with the result that you're left with heavy, useless paper to haul from one end of the world to the other.
Kindle saves you from the awfulness of having to travel with books. In the few months I've owned mine, I've had several people in airports ask to see it. Readers notice, and they get it. "This guy is reading. He's got several hundred titles to choose from. He's got one small suitcase. Damn."
These and a dozen other annoyances at paper books eventually shut down my lifelong love of recreational reading. In a moment of desperate hope, I bought a Kindle. The flame roared up. The rekindled romance is burning very, very brightly with an all consuming fire. And I just finished the Brothers Karamazov. Take that, paper.
Amazon Kindle October 12, 2008
D. Payne (West Virginia)
As a frequent airline traveler the Amazon Kindle is a blessing. It is lightweight and easy to carry and I never run out of a book to read. Downloading a new book is quick and easy. This is one of the best investments that I have made in a long time. I highly recommend this item to anyone.
The library of the future... October 12, 2008
T. Morrissy (New York)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
When I was first introduced to the Kindle by my pre-teen son I figured the Kindle was another 'hot' gadget destined to fade over time.
I adore the feel of a book, the smell of the pages, the cover art, the sound of the pages turning as I read. How could a computer like device ever give me the same joy?
The answer is YES it does. After a few moments reading on the Kindle I felt as if I was reading a book. The pages look and read like a real book. The best part is you have all your reading material with you in one thin book. Image your out and about waiting for someone, in a car line to pick up, in between your weekend games...you can pick up your Kindle read the paper, read your book or instantly download a book your friends just raved about. And, if you forget your glasses (for those over 40) no problem. You can simply change the font size and start reading.
Fantastic money-saver and convenience for serious readers!!! October 12, 2008
Judith Corey Kempton (New Orleans, LA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've had my Kindle for 5 months and have taken it on 2 week-long Carribean vacations as well as reading non-stop at home. Its fabulous, easy to see and read, small and handy, with extremely quick downloading of books. I've read over 30 books in that time.
Its more than paid for itself a few times over with the saved shipping charges plus the discount price for new books.
Plus, its wonderfully convenient not having to lug around books or wait weeks for sellers to deliver a load, etc.
Even for the casual but fairly constant reader this is a MUST.
A few books I've wanted were not yet on Kindle, but this thing is so convenient that I'm going to wait for them - there's SO much to choose from its no problem!
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