Kindle Review

Kindle Review

I never travel anywhere without my library.

One of the down sides of RV living is the lack of the space necessary to house your book collection. Whether your tastes run to Romance, Mystery, SiFi, or Science and History, there are always books you can't let go of. All this can be solved with an electronic book such as an Amazon Kindle or a Sony.

Both devices allow you to buy books online or get free books from places like Project Gutenberg. The Amazon Kindle Wireless Reading Device allows you to purchases books at the Amazon book store and have them sent wirelessly to your kindle. Imagine - you browse the Amazon book store, read reviews of books written by other readers and get recommendations based on your previous purchases. Then you download a free sample of the book, check it out and purchase it if you like it. All this while you sit in the passenger seat cruising down the highway.

Most of the best sellers are available for the Kindle Wireless Reading Device usually selling for about $10.00. Some books cost less some cost more but most are a considerable saving over the hard cover or paperback price. Amazon online allows you to sort books by price, some Amazon titles are ever FREE! If you purchase from your computer, your title will be automatically downloaded to your Kindle the next time you turn it on with the whispernet feature turned on. Whispernet can be active or inactive to save power. If you're just reading the battery charge will last up to two weeks. Only four hours will give you a full battery charge.
Kindle Wireless Reading Device

The Kindle includes the battery charger unlike the Sony which charges extra for the charger. Another advantage of the Kindle Wireless Reading Device is that when the battery has finally "had it" it is consumer replaceable where as with the Sony you must send it to a service center for battery replacement.

Both Kindle and Sony allow you to adjust the size of the text. Although they have different proprietary formats, both readers will support text and PDF files. Yes! You can download all your PDF books from your computer. But the neatest thing about the Kindle is that it has a web browser which allows you to surf the internet.

The bottom line is the Sony is sexier looking but the Kindle allows you to do more.

Kindle Wireless Reading Device