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Title: Who knows about Kindles?
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Published: May 31, 2015
Author: Me
Post Date: 2015-05-31 19:11:34 by Chuck_Wagon
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Okay. My mom (81 years old) has been a very avid reader ever Nonetheless - I think - for either her birthday or Anyone know anything about these cute little beasties?
since the sun burst into flames. So about once a week
she goes to, yes, the library.
She likes mystery, history and romance.
Decades ago I bought her every Agatha Christie novel
that I thought she had not read. (I missed on a few -
she HAD read them.)
Christmas - I am going to buy her a Kindle.
Being an avid reader as she is - she is the perfect
candidate for one.
Any help would be appreciated!
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#2. To: Chuck_Wagon (#0)
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I have one,and I love it. Mine is the Kindle PaperWhite version,and the screen is backlit so there is no real glare and you can still read if the lights are out. Adjustable font sizes for people with vision problems,and you get all sorts of free book downloads from Amazon if you are a Prime member. Besides that there are several places on the web you can download books for free. I probably have 50 or so free books on my Kindle right now. BTW,amazon is always running a sale of some kind on different Kindles. I think I paid $79.95 for mine a couple of years ago on sale,but have seen it on sale for as long as $59.95. Just looked a few minutes ago and they are running at $129 and up.
My mom has a Kindle in her future... Sounds like the 'PaperWhite' is the way to go...
The upscale ones have features the paperwhite doesn't have,but I'm cheap and the paperwhite does everything I want it to do. I was to read books on it,period. Nothing else. Make sure you get her a Amazon Prime Account. That way she gets free books,movies,and tv shows from amazon,plus free shipping on anything they sell and ship.
Okay.
#23. To: Chuck_Wagon, sneakypete (#22)
Get a Barnes & Noble Nook... they're less expensive than Kindle and don't have the embedded "special offers" pop-up advertising: Plus if there's any problems, you can take it to a real person at the nearest Barnes & Noble Bookstore instead of faceless Amazon online. (yeah... B&N stores still exist... I saw one just the other day in downtown Houston when I was going for rehab for my new leg... but I haven't seen a Waldenbooks, Borders or Daltons in a coon's age... they must've gone belly-up or something)
You,and she will be happy. There is about a 2 minute learning curve,and then it's gravy all the way. Make sure you get a case for it when you buy it. That way she can throw it in her purse and not worry about the screen getting scratched.
If your mom doesn't have WiFi (or a neighbor willing to let her connect), she'll have to bring the Kindle to your house to get new content or go somewhere with free WiFi like a restaurant or a public library. For $70 more, you can get the 3G Kindle Paperwhite. That makes the Amazon cloud storage for books much more attractive. Unless she has WiFi or easy access to it, go for the 3G option for $70 more. You won't regret it. Then it will "just work", any time, anywhere. One less thing to explain to her. Also, it will make it easy to move books to/from the Cloud, use the dictionary and translator features. And it is a real bargain at that price anyway. One of these days, Amazon will start charging for the 3G service yearly, like they do for Amazon Prime. But if you buy one now, you'll be grandfathered in no matter what. BTW, the Paperwhite is exactly the right choice. Your mom doesn't want apps or web browsing. And I think a Paperwhite can do email and very limited web browsing as well but for that, you'd have to jailbreak it so I wouldn't recommend that. BTW, you can always save web pages as PDF documents and email them to your mom that way. So you could clip web pages she'd like and send them to her free Kindle email account. She couldn't reply easily (unless jailbroken and then not too easily) but you could send her bits of different stuff like emails or most any document that you want her to see. You can also send her (unprotected) ebooks via email.
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#19. To: sneakypete (#2)
...but have seen it on sale...
#20. To: Chuck_Wagon (#19)
Sounds like the 'PaperWhite' is the way to go...
#22. To: sneakypete (#20)
I'll buy the darned thing. 
Replies to Comment # 22. The upscale ones have features the paperwhite doesn't have,but I'm cheap and the paperwhite does everything I want it to do.
#27. To: Chuck_Wagon (#22)
Okay. I'll buy the darned thing.
#29. To: Chuck_Wagon (#22)
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