Amazon Kindle (4th Generation)

Would be better with a wider selection of fonts – I have had my Kindle for over two years now and I still love it to death but if there was one thing I'd want to change it would be the selection of font, which is very limited in Kindles and I find this has not changed with later models so it is still not a reason for me to upgrade to a new model of the Kindle in any way. I actually prefer having the buttons rather than the touch function.

Great way to read – I am a read-a-holic, love books, so I was skeptical that I would like a Kindle. We bought the base model so that we could try them, 1 for husband, 1 for me. I love it. Because you click on the side to turn the page, you don't have to scroll pages up & down like you do on a computer. I have found it to be easy to use, easy to load books from… Read more

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I throw it in my bag or in the car to take wherever I have to go & thus I always have a book with me without the bulk. Easy to use, charge lasts a long time, not heavy. Not very easy to read the last page before you read the whole book, but it can be done!

May be 5 stars but too soon to tell – I love it. I have over a thousand books at home but I travel a lot and thought this might be a good way to bring books along on my travels. Well, it has hardly left my side since I bought it. I love the classics and they are all free so I have not even registered my Kindle because I don't believe I need to buy a book online. I just download… Read more

free books from my computer (in two languages, English and Chinese) and read away. I only gave it four stars because I am not sure how it would hold up in time.

I tend to read several books at one time and leave them all over the house opened and face down. Now I just click a book's title and it opens to the page I last read. I love that.

I keep it in a cloth pouch which I carry across my body so I can hardly feel its weight and its there for me to read a few pages or chapters while I'm at the bus stop or on the bus, anywhere. It turns itself off if I forget to turn it off when I returned it to the pouch.

It's my first e-reader so I cannot compare it with other products but I am happy with this one. Compact, light, bookmark.

Poor design and cheap build – Thus is my second kindle, the first with the keyboard was well thought out. This model is hard to hold. Also the RHS page forward button lost its click and eventually stopped working. I do love the whole kindle concept, but for over a $100 this model was rip off. That it. Concept hard to hold comfortably

Im converted!!!! – I didnt think that I would ever buy a kindle as I like books too much. But for mothers day this is what i requested after listening to a friend at work rave about hers. Within five minutes of getting it I was hooking it up to the wifi and downloaded books within about 20 mins. I love it, very light, i didnt buy a light with it. I would… Read more

suggest to buy one as it isnt a bright screen and you will find that you will use it. I didnt want to spend the extra but will be doing this in the next few weeks.

Im a big reader at bed time and my hands would get sore from holding up think books and struggling with reading turned pages, the kindle solves this as it is so small and light.

I havent even purchased a book for money yet, i just put free kindle books in the search and you can download certain books for free but will buy books once i cant find anything great to read. You can make collections, which i have one called "'books read''and a ''childrens section''. simple, easy use, light, small and think it is quite fancy, well worth the money.

Never dreamed they could improve on books! – I admit to being a book nerd, and was very skeptical about e-books. My parents bought me a Kindle for Christmas, and I love, love, love it! I travel for work, and now I can take up to 1600 books with me, and it's lighter than most paperbacks. The battery lasts for weeks of heavy use (sometimes hours per day). I can get fine literature even in… Read more

the middle of nowhere, and with my credit card information stored with Amazon, it takes about 3 minutes. Great selection of books online, countless are free, and easier to get those hard-to-find selections.

I do recommend getting a cover that makes a triangle stand. This way, reading is hands free! Great for reading while eating, lying in bed, or even nursing a baby.

The dictionary feature is fantastic... just scroll down to a work, and the definition comes up immediately on the page! Just click again to get the full definition, and you never lose your page in the book. I am learning so much more, when previously I would just take an unknown word in context and move along.

This will never replace books for me... especially animal field guides, childrens books, photography books, and other collectables. But the reading experience has improved so much, I am literally reading twice as much now. Simple to use, lightweight, easy on the eyes, and will pay for itself in book prices. The flight attendants make me turn it off during take off and landing! :-)

A good way to store and read books, with one or two qualifications – This is the basic Kindle, with no keyboard. It has a monochrome paper-like e-ink screen which is really quite good on print media, although photos are another story, being slightly blurred. Diagrams and maps often don't show up very well either. The on-board user manual strongly suggests you have to have access to a Wi-Fi network, but that… Read more

isn't so, you can load it with books through a PC and supplied USB cable. Also, many pubs and clubs offer free Wi-Fi on the premises, although you still need your Amazon/Kindle account.

My screen has not cracked, but given the high reported incidence of that, Kindle is one product I'd try to buy from a shop-front retailer, so I had someone to go back to if it broke. Bear in mind that, under uniform Australian consumer laws, the retailer cannot refer you to Amazon to avoid a claim.

Unfortunately, Amazon themselves are not up to pace with their own hardware. Many newer books are not available in Australia because of publishing restrictions.

A big concern is that cheaper Amazon Kindle store books are usually full of spelling and grammatical errors, which leave you wondering what you paid for. True, there are refund, review and feedback mechanisms in place, but it shouldn't happen in the first place. Good screen look, easy to use, portable, access to other types of e-books Extremely variable quality of Kindle e-book offerings, from good to utter rubbish