It also supports the following image formats: JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP. Unlike the Kindle 2, Kindle 3 is able to read PDF, as well as, AZW, PDF, TXT, MOBI, PRC, HTML, DOC. The battery life allows for 7,500 of page turns before the device's battery needs to be charged. The colors the device comes in are black graphite. The dimensions for the device are 7.5 in x 4.8 in x 0.335 in. Kindle 3's display comes with 4-bit monochrome with 16 levels of gray. Kindle 3 comes in a 6 inch monochrome eInk display with a resolution of 800 x 600. Kindle 3 comes with 4 GB of internal memory, but does not allow expandable memory by using a removable flash card. But for novels and books that need colour, the drawbacks may be too big for most people.On July 28, 2010, Kindle 3, also known as Kindle Keyboard, was released by Amazon. There's a great case for having heavyweight textbooks, legal tomes, field-service manuals and even tourist guides in a searchable electronic format like Amazon's. I'd want to pay less for an ebook, for starters, and I'd also want the right to give it away or sell it on if I no longer want it. Much as I like the idea of ebooks, I don't expect the Kindle to make much impact on global paper consumption, unless there are some fundamental changes. Crazy as it sounds, VAT is payable on ebooks, but not physical books. That covers the "extra operational costs" plus VAT, says a spokesman. Amazon is not keen to discuss pricing differentials, but says its $9.99 best-sellers convert to $11.99 or $13.99 in Europe. If I'd been buying in the US, then I would have got my book for less. There are no second-hand ebooks floating around…. But truth to tell, I'd rather have bought the massive 926-page paperback from .uk for £6.99, or a second-hand copy at prices as low as £1.47 (plus postage). The price from was $9.65 (£5.90), confirmed by email. Having just unpacked my loaner, I bought a book: Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver, the first volume in The Baroque Cycle. After all, it's much quicker, cheaper and more carbon-efficient to deliver a computer file by phone than put a book in the post. This takes the ball-park price for playing up to about $350 (£214).Īn ebook reader could, of course, pay for itself in a year or two if users could save money on books. To that, I'd want to add $29.99 for the smart black leather case, which makes it much more comfortable to carry a Kindle: it's sturdy but will benefit from protection. My Kindle arrived as a review sample, but a real buyer told me his final bill included $20.98 for Shipping & Handling and an Import Fees Deposit of $45. The change isn't in the device, which still comes with a US plug (though you can charge it via a USB cable): the change is that your Kindle will automatically work with a local Whispernet (3G or GPRS) mobile phone service. "Internationally available" means that if you buy a Kindle for $259, Amazon will ship it to the UK. Indeed, the Kindle's UK availability doesn't even represent a concerted attack on the ebook market, where Sony's Reader series is fairly well established. But the result is that the Kindle is far from offering a challenge to an MP3 player or mobile phone for anything except consuming books. Also, in the UK, web access is limited to Wikipedia: no Guardian, no BBC etc.Īmazon points out that the web browser and audio capabilities are currently free, experimental features, and are still under development. However, you can't even get a list of songs: they just play in the order you loaded them. You can even have the Kindle read books to you in a male or female voice, using text-to-speech software, or have it play music in the background: there are tiny stereo speakers on the back of the machine, or you can use headphones. No matter how much you stuff into it, the Kindle never gets any bigger. If you want to carry the whole Harry Potter series at all times, along with everything by JRR Tolkien, you can. You can also look up words in the Kindle's built-in (American) dictionary, or use its web browser to consult Wikipedia.Īnd while Kindle is a bit smaller than a book, its 1.4GB of free memory can hold a lot more words. A new novel downloads silently and automatically over the Kindle's mobile phone connection – Amazon's Whispernet – in a minute or less.
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