Kindles

[Gulliver]

... yes and ,I can also store up to free 5 Gb of personal documents/pictures on it using Amazon 'Cloud' (you can pay a small fee if you require extra space.)I do this regularly as an extra backup facility in addition to my external backup drive,knowing it can never be lost.
I also never have to worry about newspapers as I have a subscription to The Independent. Don't need my laptop to read the paper-just my Kindle.

For anyone wishing to try one,you can always download a free App from Amazon,(called Kindle for PC) which is how I first started getting to grips with E-Readers.It sits on your PC Desktop,and you can download a regularly changing selection of some free books to it -look in Kindle Store-Free Books ,as well of course other purchased books in seconds. Downloading the Kindle App will give you an idea how the Kindle concept looks and works.

(Yes,I really did highlight the free parts above- and no,I do not work for Amazon !).
Happy reading !

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[alf corbyn]

i like books

[John Pruden]

greatest things ever i can talk to myself {at last} download the books {for free} and away you go?jp

[Duke Drennan]

Another feature, if you don't want to pay for and download a book, is that they connect directly with your local library. Books can be downloaded from your library for free with something like a 2 week period before the download expires. You can also swap reading material with other tablet readers. My wife does this all the time with her Nook tablet. Me, I prefer to watch the fitba at the weekend, check and write email, and, in general, browse the few sites that I frequent. For the cheap cost of a wireless router at home, it's amazing what you can do without even switching on your computer. Routers are so easy to get up and running too. Simply plug your Internet connection into the router, open the software that comes with it, set your password and choose the security level you want, WPA2 is the highest level, and voila, everything else in the house is connected online including tv's, DVD players (to download Netflicks movies), printers, and any other device that offers online connection. All without a single cable. Just as laptops signaled the coming eventual demise of Desktop PC's, tablets are now overtaking laptops in the convenience stakes and to no surprise. With the ever spreading availability of free wireless, tablets can be taken anywhere and used.

[Colin Hawken]

Why have people got to take these things with them? They get on the Bus with a mobile phone jammed under one ear.They drop money in font of the Driver and grunt. The Driver has to guess where the Passenger wishes to go. That has to be pig ignorance. Buses now are being equipped with free WI FI,whatever that is. The Bus Driver won't have a chance of getting any sense out of these idiots. I believe in the future humans will be mutes.They will have forgotten how to speak. I believe there are cases of people sitting in the same room and texting each other rather than speaking. In the days when I had a car I then always had a mobile phone with me,for obvious reasons. For health reasons I no longer drive.I was on a Bus sometime ago and some guy was talking in a very loud voice on a mobile phone. He gave his name,address and bank account details.Anyone could have written this down and cleared his bank account. Guess he was trying to impress with his financial wheeling and dealing. After he'd got of the Bus the general consensus of opinion was "What a bloody idiot." I still have a mobile phone,not quite sure where it is.It's in my flat somewhere. It most certainly does not go to the Pub with me.

[Ron B Manderson]

Oh Dear!!
must be terrible to be left far behind.
Ask my wife she keeps getting me to buy these things for her.
All the fancy mobile phones now

I asked her if she would rather have a pressy from Ann Summers. Still await the answer, but the look I think said "NO. " mind you I may be wrong.
The stiches in my face and back don't hurt too much.

Mine ? just a £15 pay as you go that goes ring ring , then I answer it. Good old Tesco's
Ron the batcave