The library borrowing is still an issue at the moment, but Kindle will be lending books from the library shortly....so I'm looking forward to that! :)

Is $89 for wireless 2nd generation kindle a good price?

It comes with free 3g.

Thanks in advance for answering.

Yes. Very. Buy me one. LOL

Just a hint: If you friend the Amazon Kindle on Facebook, they will give you the tip-off when Amazon puts on the good .99 sales! I picked up about 8 different books a few weeks ago that had been ranging anywhere from $5- $12 normally!

I meant to ask: Has anyone read "The Hunger Games"? I keep seeing people talk about this book and one of my friends recommended it to me but am I understanding correctly that this is a young adult series?

I love my iPad, which has a Kindle app (also iBooks, Google Books, etc.). It's been incredibly useful to sling a library's worth of books over my shoulder--I'm on the run a lot and never know in advance what I'll be in the mood to read when opportunity presents.

Medusa - Yes, it is the first in a YA series. I have not yet read it myself (though I did get the eBook already), but the ladies from my book group say it's gripping.

Just got my Kindle so it's the latest edition - but I got my baby one for Xmas so she has the previous edition.

We have both fallen in love with them. She can toss them both in her purse and we're on the go! As far as the ereader part - I echo everyone else who has gushed so far...


As far as something new to add - for those with Free 3G (Or if you're in a wifi area) they have an experimental browser that you can access from the menu screen when at the home screen. Just go to "experimental" and then click on Web Browser.

Be warned: it's craptastic at this point, but it will do when you have no other options.

Only reasons I mention it are because #1 it's FREE internet for now (that's right they don't charge anything for browsing) and #2 At least in Canada it's still free!!! Yeah to no international roaming / browser fees.

And it has great coverage - we were at a cottage on Lake Huron the past couple of weeks and do I need to say Isolated? Ok it's not completely isolated but the closest "town" was 10 miles away and it only had 8k people. Ok it was Isolated for this City guy... anyway that's not the point - We got Kindle coverage! Yay!!!! lol


eta: it had 8k not only 8 people lol big difference.

I just got an iPad a couple of weeks ago, and I just love it. How did I ever live without it? (I felt the same way about my first iPhone.)

Btw, check your local library's website for ebooks. I'm a librarian, and our library offers them. You can't get better than FREE, right?

I have a Kindle and an Ipad, and I greatly prefer the Kindle for reading. If I am traveling I take the Ipad as an all in one, but for home and short trips the kindle is great. It is very lightweight, easy to read, and is very easy to hold for my getting arthritis fingers. I can eat a meal and read, I never lose my page, and the battery lasts for a month!

Agreed on the battery, I've had mine since May and I have charged it ONCE.

Amazing futuristic series where youth fight in a "food Olympics" to feed their communities.

Another great series is FableHaven. It's for about 5-6th grade.

I have the cover with the built-in light and I *love* it! There was an issue with cracking, but they found and fixed the problem, so the new covers are just fine with no problems. I can't go to sleep at night without reading in bed, and my wife goes to sleep really early. It's been perfect for us.

I love my Kindle so much. I have the 3rd Gen with 3G and WiFi, and it's fabulous. I'm a voracious reader, and I often have 3 or 4 books going at once, so it's a lifesaver for me. I'm also a student, and every semester there are more and more textbooks available in ebook format. Every huge textbook I don't have to lug around with me is a big plus.

One of the things I love is the ability to read new authors I would have been unlikely to try or even find before. I adore the urban fantasy genre, but there's a lot utter crap to wade through in the genre to find the good stuff. With my Kindle, I can download a sample and read the first chapter or so at my leisure. Way better than trying to find the time to spend hours standing in the aisle of a bookstore trying to decide what I want to spend money on.

Ebooks also make it a lot easier to read authors who are self-publishing. Now, anyone can write a book and publish it themselves as an ebook and charge whatever they decide for it.

Does everyone know about Calibre? It's a great (free!) program to have if you don't want to be married to Amazon for your ebooks. As long as they're DRM-free, you can download an ebook in any format and use Calibre to convert it to a Kindle (or Nook, or whatever) friendly format and get it onto your Kindle. So if your favorite author is only publishing in epub format, it doesn't matter, you can read it on your Kindle anyway. I love it. http://calibre-ebook.com/