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EDIT. Please now ignore the links below. The Kindle is now available directly from Amazon UK. Please Buy the UK Kindle HERE.
Americans have had the benefit of Amazon’s Kindle electronic book reader for years now but it is just recently that there has been a kindle UK and International edition. This article is specifically for those in the UK and Europe including Spain who want to get a Kindle for the best possible price.
If you want to buy the kindle UK edition then there is still only one place to get the kindle for the UK so to buy the kindle for the UK please click on the image or the text below it.
If you are registered with Amazon UK then you can sign in using your account. This is the American Amazon site where you can make your purchase. Although this is the International edition we still have to buy it from Amazon’s US store. Hopefully they will soon have it available to be shipped direct from the UK but at the moment the only way to buy a Kindle for the UK is through the US store. If you do not have an Amazon account then it is a simple process to make one when you make your purchase.
If you want to buy a cheap kindle for the UK then it means that if it is for a gift you should order it in plenty of time. Shipping will probably take between 5 and 7 days although I have heard of people getting items much faster.
Better to get it early than late, especially with the way the UK postal service is lately. Although I did just hear yesterday (Nov 5) that it seems that the postal strike is now not going to happen.
The UK Kindle edition really does open up a whole new world to those outside the US. This electronic book reader is absolutely fantastic. For older kids then it is a fantastic gift, especially for those that love to read.
It is as thin as most magazines and it simply uses 3G technology which cover basically the whole of the UK now and Europe. However, unlike with mobile phones you do not need to pay for the 3G service. It is included free for life with the purchase of the UK Kindle so all you pay is for the Kindle itself and whatever books you wish to buy.
It makes good economic sense if you are a heavy reader as the electronic books are much cheaper than the paper versions. Once you buy a book it is on your Kindle in less than 60 seconds which I find rather amazing. The screen itself has to be seen to be believed. It is amazingly like reading from paper and the technology behind it is quite baffling. How they can make it to look just like paper and not to have any glare I simply don’t know but that is exactly what they have done.
If you want the perfect gift for book lovers then the UK Kindle is absolutely the best gift you could possibly give.
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one of the things about reading a good book is that you dont notice the paper the ink, all those things. you are just into the story.
well the kindle does that. i was just cooking some canned soup while reading the ebook “Animals Make Us Human” i was so engulfed in the story that i didnt notice my soup, which i was right next to. it is was not until i smelled the chicken goodness that i remembered the soup 12 inches away from me.
it really is like reading from a book.
but i want to add somethings i have not seen others talk about:
1- it plays mine sweeper. i know for a $360 device thats not that big of a deal but it is cool to have when you need time to think about what you are reading.
2- others have mentioned that you can change font size, but there is something about that people forget to mention. you can do this on the fly as you read. this is cool because i do have some vision problems and so as the day goes on i can and do move to bigger text. and then smaller and back again. this is so easy to do. there is a button for it and everything so that you dont have to fish around with menus.
3- ok people have talked about the buttons being hard to press. it is not true the buttons are VERY EASY TO PRESS. but there is a trick. you need to press the side that is closest to the screen. that side is not harder to press than any other button. this means that you can hold it anyway you like with your hands on the outside edge and not press the button by mistake.
4- amazon service is really amazing. very well done. i posted on the forums that i was having problems with my text to speech (as i said i have vision problems so this is important to me) they CALLED ME to offer a hand. and have been extremely helpful and wonderful about working with me to get it fixed. this is not something people talk about in reviews but it is refreshing to know that for the length of the warranty this is the high caliber of service that we will all get included in the price. just amazing. again amazon well done.