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My wife really gave me a killer gift for my birthday — no, not a car. But it’s something I had definitely been wanting for myself, but was trying to be practical about the price. It’s an Amazon Kindle. I’ve had it for about a month now, and I figured I’d do a little gear review for you here of the Kindle.
In case you haven’t come across it yet, the Amazon Kindle is an ebook reader from Amazon where you can take hundreds of books around on this tiny device and read them on an easy-on-the-eyes screen. That alone saves your back from lugging a hardback book on your next business trip. And then when you finish that hardback mid-trip, you have to go buy a second book and then lug BOTH of them home with you. What a royal pain.
Not with the Amazon Kindle ebook reader. The Kindle has a free wireless internet connection (yes, completely free — you’ll never get a monthly bill or any charges for it). And it works just about anywhere a cell phone works. It’s called Whispernet. And since your Kindle is associated with your Amazon account, once you’re done reading that first book, you just open the Kindle Store on your Kindle and you can browse tons and tons of titles and hit “buy” right then and there — within a few seconds you have a new book to read. No downloading it to your computer and then syncing it to your Kindle. Just bam — and it’s there. I wish Apple would release a Whispernet service for...
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