I'm in Lurve
Jul. 10th, 2008 10:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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.
