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willow_25Oh, yes, my Kindle came yesterday!! And it is made of awesome!!
I charged it overnight, then read the directions (which come up on the reading screen, no manual needed) on my way to work this morning. It took a while to get used to the buttons, and the little mechanism that allows you to select text and get menus, but I think I've got it now. I guess the advantage of my commute is that I can just sit there and play with stuff for a while, and have it all figured out before work.
So, you can download your newspaper, favorite blog, magazine, or book. You can surf the web. You can e-mail pictures and text documents to it. And, as I might have mentioned before, I purchased books for it prior to its arrival. They were loaded when I opened the box. It can also play music, but I'm a little fuzzy on how much music it will hold, and how you get it on there. I was thinking that the amazon mp3 downloads might be able to be sent directly to the Kindle, but it doesn't look like it.
I think they might be trying to discourage creative Kindle usage - I had to go to Amazon's special Kindle site and poke around in the extended instructions to find out about music files. Oh, and if you e-mail yourself files there is a fee, but if you hook the machine up to your computer to download files, I don't think there is.
And that's all so far about my new toy. Except that the screen is very easy to read and look at, which I probably should have mentioned at the start. In soft/twilight lighting, the cursor is hard to see, though.
I charged it overnight, then read the directions (which come up on the reading screen, no manual needed) on my way to work this morning. It took a while to get used to the buttons, and the little mechanism that allows you to select text and get menus, but I think I've got it now. I guess the advantage of my commute is that I can just sit there and play with stuff for a while, and have it all figured out before work.
So, you can download your newspaper, favorite blog, magazine, or book. You can surf the web. You can e-mail pictures and text documents to it. And, as I might have mentioned before, I purchased books for it prior to its arrival. They were loaded when I opened the box. It can also play music, but I'm a little fuzzy on how much music it will hold, and how you get it on there. I was thinking that the amazon mp3 downloads might be able to be sent directly to the Kindle, but it doesn't look like it.
I think they might be trying to discourage creative Kindle usage - I had to go to Amazon's special Kindle site and poke around in the extended instructions to find out about music files. Oh, and if you e-mail yourself files there is a fee, but if you hook the machine up to your computer to download files, I don't think there is.
And that's all so far about my new toy. Except that the screen is very easy to read and look at, which I probably should have mentioned at the start. In soft/twilight lighting, the cursor is hard to see, though.
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Date: 2008-07-10 04:58 pm (UTC)Although it supports unprotected Mobipocket books (.MOBI, .PRC), plain text files, and HTML and Word documents, Kindle also uses its own proprietary, DRM-restricted format (AZW). It does not fully support Portable Document Format (PDF), but Amazon provides "experimental" conversion to the native AZW format. Users may also convert PDF files to supported formats using third-party software.
Searching for software for it gave no results - probably because it's a closed architecture: you can't add new programs to it as you can with a normal computer. However I did find one interesting post you might want to check out regarding how to view PDF files on the Kindle.
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