Ocelot

i pre-ordered a K2.0 for myself... i'm tired turning pages on the Subway. I love hardcovers, but seriously, they're really taking up the space and damn hard to carry around. Never a fan of paperbacks (only borrow, never buy if there's a choice, unless it's instructional books).

The damn jacket for the Kindle is $30 Sorry, my Kindle just gonna be naked until there's a cheaper jacket (if it's on on back order that is).

Anybody know any cheap alternatives to Kindle jackets? It doesn't have to be pretty, good enough to cover up the Kindle so that it doesn't get banged up in the backpack.

Ocelot

Exactly... Complete Sherlock Holmes, carry that around with you all the time, priceless (not that people care, but just one example).

Ginwen

I preordered a K2.0. I bring a ton of books anytime I go on vacation even a short one so hopefully this will have a positive impact on the weight of my luggage. Anyway, that's my excuse, but I also just want it.

Jay G.

Although I don't have a Kindle, I just downloaded "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" from www.freekindlebooks.org and opened it with Mobipocket Reader in Windows. This is a collection of short stories, and has an index that allows you to jump to a specific story. So depending on which free book you download, they can have indexes and possibly other features.

Also, I think a lot of the reviews for the "Complete Works" collections are cross-referenced from the print editions, as has happened with this Sherlock Holmes collection:
http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Sherl...dp/B0013XW2F4/

I will say, however, for Sherlock Holmes specifically, this Illustrated Kindle edition may be worth the $4, considering most of the the free versions won't include the original illustrations.
http://www.amazon.com/Sherlock-Holme...dp/B0012D1CMY/

Jay G.

Just browsing the Kindle Store on Amazon, I see that there's a number of free books offered via their service.

For one, you can likely find a free version of public domain books published by "Public Domain Books", like this version of Dracula:
http://www.amazon.com/Dracula/dp/B000JQUBRM/

However, if you check the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" section, you'll see a number of non-public-domain books that are currently free, such as The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death by Laurie Notaro
http://www.amazon.com/Idiot-Girl-Fla...dp/B00125JO6I/

And The Foreign Correspondent by Alan Furst
http://www.amazon.com/The-Foreign-Co...dp/B000GCFW00/

There's also some romance novels floating around in there.

drmoze

Not true at all. Most of the free collections I have for my Reader are nicely formatted, with illustrations, a clickable table of contents (to go directly to different stories), etc. I have a bunch of these collections, like the Wizard of Oz books, Sherlock Holmes, a few Edgar Rice Burroughs series, etc. The mobileread site has many of these ebooks posted in their forums that have been formatted even more nicely by various contributors.

movieking

Another question for any PRS-505 owners: do any of you use a storage card, and if so, how successful are you? I know that the specs say that it can handle a 16G card, so I tried mine in it. It takes forever to load anything. I probably only have 2 gigs of stuff on the card, and I've yet to see it load. It actually ran out of power at one point when I decided just to let it go until it loaded. What is the realistic limit that you should have on a card if you really want it to load?

Cory02

Just ordered a Kindle 2 today and it should be here tomorrow (splurged for the $3.99 one-day shipping). I know its sounds odd, but as someone that reads quite a bit going to e-Books will be a huge change.

Ocelot

thanks for the free books link, got all of them

Ocelot

For the Sherlock Holmes, i went with this one:

http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Sherl...=pd_sim_kinc_2

Simply b/c it got more rating than the Illustrated one.

Ocelot

You can order eBooks while the Kindle is in transit

Ocelot

IMO, the following free books should be added to your Kindle

A Dangerous Man: A Novel [Kindle Edition], Price: $0.00
Six Bad Things: A Novel [Kindle Edition], Price: $0.00
Caught Stealing [Kindle Edition], Price: $0.00

Cory02

One step ahead of you. Ordered a couple books yesterday after I ordered the Kindle.

Jay G.

Note that the majority of those ratings are for either the paperback or hardcover editions, so the fact that it has more ratings doesn't actually tell you much about the Kindle Edition specifically.

M Polo

Gave in and just ordered myself a Kindle 2 w/ the leather cover. I love having the actual books but I travel 5 days a week all year long and I just figure this will be the best way for me to read books, news, etc.

I look forward to it getting here on Thursday. Also I second picking up those free books by Charlie Huston. Excellent books, excellent writer.

Deke Rivers

actually the convenience of it along with the clear crisp type has caused me to read more than I ever have

Ocelot

i just loaded the thing with enough free books to last me an entire year... I don't think Host for $10 is a good deal. Just pay few more bucks and you can have the hardcover. Of course, few bucks is few bucks, still a better buy on the Kindle, just that lending your copy to a friend after you're done is tricky...

Ocelot

i know.. damn, bad impulse buy... shoulda went with the illustrated one

meglet

My first Kindle arrived yesterday, and e-books are such a huge change for me that I still have 3 paperbacks on order, out for delivery today.

And Deke is right about the benefits of the nice clear e-ink. I tend to read cheap paperbacks, and the print always looks fuzzy to me (yes, I've had my eyes checked.) The type on the Kindle is perfect, plus you can increase the font sized if the default size is too small for you.

Web

I got my kindle 2 yesterday. I wish it wasn't so wide. I thought it would be the size of a paperback but it's bigger. Not a big deal, just a wish. I'm finding it hard to get used to. What I like in a book is being able to see how much more I have to read or when the chapter ends. Can't really do that with this. It's kind of lifeless. And because all books look the same on here, it's like all one big book to me. Sometimes I like reading different editions of the same novel. The print is different, the feel is different, etc. But that would be pointless on this. And I don't like that. I don't get the same sense of accomplishment after reading that I do with books. But I'll keep trying.

JimJ

Ordering a Kindle as soon as my tax check gets here (probably Monday, shouldn't be later than Tuesday). I'm just hoping it's still in stock by then.

meglet

Can't help you with the chapter thing, but the bar across the bottom when you're reading a book is the indicator of how far along you are.

The little row of dots under each title in the home page is also an indicator, although I haven't quite figured out how to interpret that one yet. Something to do with how long Kindle thinks that book is compared to the other books, and then how far along in that book you are.

I have to admit, after 4 days I'm still not quite adjusted to reading on Kindle. I was able to change the font and line spacing to get more words on one page, which helps it look more familiar to me, since I'm used to paperbacks where 2 pages worth of words are visible at once. The width of Kindle doesn't bother me, but after a while I find it's too thin to hold comfortably in one hand and hit the page buttons with that thumb. I picked up the Amazon Kindle cover on a coworker's recommendation, and with the front flap folded back, it's now the perfect size for comfortable one-handed use.

My plan for this weekend is to spend as much time as possible reading my Kindle so I get very used to it. Sounds like a hardship, really.

darkside

I have the eReader version of this with me at all times. A must have for me. I've probably read it through a dozen times the past 10 years or so.

Ginwen

It has taken me a few days, but I'm getting adjusted to mine and now I think it's pretty cool. Mobileread.com was a big help for things like library books (which require some tools to use on your kindle) and free books. I got a couple of "books" on Mobileread that basically consist of links to hundreds (or thousands maybe) of free books and stories you can get wirelessly on your kindle (including the complete sherlock holmes, with illustrations and well-formatted).

meglet

The Kindle app for iPhone was released today. No Kindle required, you can send samples and Kindle books straight to the iPhone. (Currently you can't purchase directly from the iPhone app, unless you are buying from the end page of a sample.)

As a Kindle owner, I find this little app a great compliment to my Kindle. Thanks to Whispersync both devices remember my place in my book, and it's nice for the times I don't have my Kindle with me, such as when I was only supposed to be running some quick errands and then ended up stuck at the pharmacy for an hour without my Kindle.