Monday, August 8, 2011

Amazon Kindle - Good E-Reader

Purchased Kindled, directly from Amazon, had few doubts, how it will work here(In India). Finished reading my first book in kindle, in fact my first Asimov book also.
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  • Inline access to dictionary
  • One click for taking notes or highlight
  • Access to Wikipedia-in fact to other sites also
  • Very easy to nav, from pg to pg
  • Books download pretty fast - few minutes hardly.
  • Play mp3
  • Adjustable font size, zoom image
  • Very light,easy to hold,read and page turn(It fits neatly in my jacket)
  • Device comes with 3G connection - so no need to worry(Amazon has tied up)
  • Text-TO speech - helps, for checking pronunciation
  • Reads PDF directly
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  • Flicker during page turns
  • Need external light for reading
  • 3g connection is not seamless
  • Very less choice of Indian mags and newspapers