I have bought my kindle a month ago from Target in bellingham mall, blain. You can’t find Kindle in Canada retail stores, which sucks; and you can’t order it from amazon.ca, only from amazon.com, which sucks even more. If you order from amazon.com, it takes more than a week to get to you and you are entitled for the duties as well.
After trying kindle for a while, I have decided to return it. I have reasons, but in short, if you are not a heavy fiction reader, kindle is not a good ebook reader for you at all.
I got the 3G version so that I can look at some websites and read some news when in bus or skytrain. Forget about it. Surfing web using kindle took so much time that you probably will get to your destination before finishing a single article. Also it takes so much energy that using 3G browsing web for a little more than an hour will drain your battery out and you need to charge it again.
The other disadvantage about Kindle was its battery life, as Amazon claimed to run for 21 days or so, I couldn't find that promising. I have laid Kindle next to my bed for a week, and the battery was gone. I haven't used it. It is funny, Amazon claims that Kindle won't consume energy while showing a page but just when changing a page. I didn't find that truthful.
Kindle had a really nice feature that was able to show UNICODE fonts. It also had a nice feature that you can upload any PDF into it. You also could send your PDFs to Amazon, it convert for you to a kindle format and you could read it on your kindle. I tried it with a ebook about Drools, but I couldn't follow the book in great detail.
Another disadvantage is lack of light source with it. If you want to read it in a bus at night, or when it is getting dark, you will probably be in trouble. You need to carry a flash light or some small torch with you to read that.
I was expecting more from Amazon, hopefully with the next Kindle I will be an amazon kindler.
After trying kindle for a while, I have decided to return it. I have reasons, but in short, if you are not a heavy fiction reader, kindle is not a good ebook reader for you at all.
I got the 3G version so that I can look at some websites and read some news when in bus or skytrain. Forget about it. Surfing web using kindle took so much time that you probably will get to your destination before finishing a single article. Also it takes so much energy that using 3G browsing web for a little more than an hour will drain your battery out and you need to charge it again.
The other disadvantage about Kindle was its battery life, as Amazon claimed to run for 21 days or so, I couldn't find that promising. I have laid Kindle next to my bed for a week, and the battery was gone. I haven't used it. It is funny, Amazon claims that Kindle won't consume energy while showing a page but just when changing a page. I didn't find that truthful.
Kindle had a really nice feature that was able to show UNICODE fonts. It also had a nice feature that you can upload any PDF into it. You also could send your PDFs to Amazon, it convert for you to a kindle format and you could read it on your kindle. I tried it with a ebook about Drools, but I couldn't follow the book in great detail.
Another disadvantage is lack of light source with it. If you want to read it in a bus at night, or when it is getting dark, you will probably be in trouble. You need to carry a flash light or some small torch with you to read that.
I was expecting more from Amazon, hopefully with the next Kindle I will be an amazon kindler.
