The Kindle can read Word documents, which is nice, but what is nicer is you can email those Word documents to your Kindle for .10 cents.
You can also publish a book on Kindle in a matter of minutes. As an experiment, I put a number of my
writings (some never published) in Kindle format, then uploaded them to be published. Now anyone with a Kindle can buy it for .99 cents; I was going to make it .01, but .99 is the minimum for some reason. I think you make .35 cents for every dollar sold. You can't check them out here:
It's almost silly to buy books on the Kindle when there are literally thousands of classics in public domain. I've been downloading a lot from
FeedBooks.com and
ManyBooks.net. These books look just as nice as the ones you pay for.
One of the things I love about the Kindle is reading newspapers, blogs, and magazines; I like to keep books on my shelf, but newspapers and magazines are pretty disposable. Reading them on the Kindle works out great; I save a tree, and the navigation on them is pretty nice. It would just be nice to have more to buy.
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Have you tried downloading ebooks or audio books from archive.org to your Kindle?
I've never been too excited with Archive's selection, so no; as for audio--I can't stand audio books...except for Sarah Vowell ones.
Hi, I'm a librarian and I am looking at getting a Kindle for my birthday next month. Thanks for the review, I really enjoyed it.
Can you upload adobe pdf documents into the kindle? I always have lots of professional articles to read and I was hoping to read them on the kindle instead of printing them or just reading them on my computer.
I have yet to experiment with PDF files, because I have not heard very good things about the conversion. It is possible to email PDF's to your Kindle, but if it's a complicated file (with hyperlinks, photos, columns) you probably won't be happy with the results. If it's a simple document, I think you'll be fine.
Do you know if the Kindle can handle Microsoft library documents (.lit)?
I've never tried a .lit file, but if it doesn't you should be able to reconvert it pretty easily. Take a look at this forum:
http://www.amazon.com/tag/kindle/forum?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx1D7SY3BVSESG&cdThread=Tx313YFDWBE01X3&displayType=tagsDetail
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