Me holding my Amazon Kindle Ebook Reader
Everybody will have their own reasons for loving the Amazon Kindle e-books reader, but here are the top 10 reasons I love it.
1.) You can get FREE books. Just try walking in to Barnes & Noble’s or Borders and getting a free book. It won’t happen. But Amazon has THOUSANDS of free books… and I don’t mean useless or worthless books either. I was able to get over 75 of my books free and they are books I would have bought, too, like Crime & Punishment by Dostoyevsky, Oliver Twist by Dickens, Pride & Prejudice by Austen…
2.) You can upload your pdf files to the Kindle and then read your pdf files AWAY from the computer. Until now, your only choice with a pdf file was to read it either on your computer or print it off. Now you can upload it to your kindle and read it whenever or wherever you like. No more being chained to your desk.
3.) If you can’t find the book you want free, chances are it is cheap. One of my favorite writers is P.G. Wodehouse. I found a collection of ALL of his 96 books for $4.95. Now I have every book he’s written (I think!) for just $4.95. If I had paid for each book separately in a bookstore it would have been well over $500.00
Get a Kindle Wireless Reading Device (6″ Display, Global Wireless, Latest Generation)
4.) I love reading before I go to sleep. But one of the things that has always annoyed me is that you have to hold your book open with both hands. Not so with the Kindle ebooks reader. Small and stupid as this may seem, now I can lie on my side and hold the kindle with one hand. Not only that, you can take it to lunch and read it while you are eating or drinking because you can hold it with one hand.
5.) If you want a book, forget the hassle of going to the library or book store. Just log in to the “Kindle Store” from your Kindle (which connects from just about everywhere WITHOUT an internet connection) and download your book in SECONDS!! For someone as lazy as me, it’s a dream come true.
6.) If you read a quote or paragraph that you really like, with a regular book you can highlight it with a highlighter pen. On the kindle you can select whatever text you want and save it to what they call “Clippings”. The great thing about that is that now you no longer have to search through a book you haven’t read for a long time to find your highlighting… you can go straight to “Clippings” and find exactly the quote you were looking for in seconds!
7.) I’ve moved a lot in my life. And other than a piano, books are just about the most thankless things you have to move, especially if you have a lot of them. Now, with the Amazon Kindle you can have hundreds of full length books and it’s as easy to move as your cell phone.
8.) As we get older, our eyes just don’t seem to be able to read as well. If you love reading and misplace your glasses, then reading becomes a chore. BUT, with the Amazon Kindle, all you have to do is just choose a larger font and instantly, you can read…even without your glasses.
9.) One of the features I love about the kindle is that you can download for FREE, the first chapter of just about any book…even the latest NY Times bestsellers. You can then read it and decide if you want to buy the whole book. It’s a lot easier to do this from the comfort of your living room than it is standing in the aisle at Barnes & Noble trying to read enough to decide if you should buy it.
10.) You can connect to the internet from your Kindle … and even though its functionality is primitive (works best for Text web pages), you can still access google and do queries to find out something or look up something… even in places that don’t have internet.
The Kindle uses the same sort of technology as cell phones and so you don’t need to find wi-fi or a hotspot in order to access either the internet or the Kindle Store.
See some pictures of my Kindle for a good idea of how it will look for you.
