I thought that I would bump this old thread. I was surprised with a Kindle for Christmas and it doesn't disappoint! I love reading on it so far and its very cool. Once all of the features are up and running in Canada (which will hopefully be soon!) it will be even better. To me the best things about it are:
1. downloads books fast. In less than a minute easily I'd say.
2. you can read PDF's on it pretty easily. In the US you can email them to a dedicated Kindle address and they convert them. Here I had to plug it in through a USB and move it over. Either way if you have a lot of these things to read its a nice addition.
3. I read multiple books at a time, and this always holds your spot. Again, just a nice additional feature!
4. No more going outside for the morning paper, or hoping that the paperboy has made it or didn't throw it off into the snowbank!
Some drawbacks as well. For some reason in Canada you don't download photos in the newspaper...which means no ads (awesome!) but that also means no photos accompanying articles (not so awesome).
The kindle can also do audio books from audible.com if you're into that sort of thing. I usually buy these on iTunes if I want one for a drive or something like that, but I guess for some people this might be of interest.
Overall, I think that its awesome. Once they make these full colour and with all of the images and everything included they'll be an absolute must have!
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