Kindle 2

The book I read to research this post was Kindle 2 for Dummies by Greg Holden which is an excellent book which I bought from kindle. The version of the kindle I have is the kindle wifi which I think must be the equivalent of version but a lot of what is in this book I think applies to it. If you need to conserve the battery power you can turn off the wifi. Some versions of the kindle have 3g which means you can download ebooks direct to your kindle free of charge. It also means you have limited internet access. You can use the 3g version to send text messages via sites like gmail or yahoo. A couple of good sources of ebooks are http://manybooks.net and http://freetechbooks.com . These sites give away ebooks which normally would cost quite a bit. You can convert from most ebooks formats to the kindle format with a program called mobipocket reader. There is also another program called stanza which does the same but in addition to working with windows works with the applemac. If you find this post interesting you might be interested to know I have done a post on the kindle fire at
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If you go abroad you may find there are charges if you download anything on a 3g version but it's still completely to access your content on the kindle. They do newspaper subscriptions which in addition to being cheaper than in the shops are good for the environment. Apparently when kindles were first released they were so popular that they sold out and some people were selling them secondhand for $50 over the published price.