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Wonderful Kindle 
A man asked me yesterday what was so great about the Kindle and didn't I miss the feel of a "real" book? This is what I told him.
1. I travel a fair amount and I like to take a lot of books. With the Kindle I can take as many as I want and I don't have to worry about overloading my suitcase. The Kindle lives in my purse, so where ever I am, I always have a choice of reading material.
2. Font resizing- crutial for those of us with "older eyes". Getting eyestrain, enlarge the font. Problem solved.
3. No more donating books to the library, saves trees, space in my house. It is also lighter than many books which makes reading in bed much more comfy.
4. Instant gratification. Like an author, down load their books, immediately.
Wouldn't be without it.
It's the best!
I've never had so much fun reading. I don't have to strain my eyes because I can adjust the print size. Kindle is small and handy to carry and use. I love it! I would buy it again, in a minute. I look forward to many years of great reading with it. This is my first experience with a reader, so my purchase of Kindle was a result of the great reviews I read. I haven't had a chance to use all the features, but am sure I'll be even more impressed when I do. Have fun and enjoy if you decide to buy.
Love my Kindle
This reader is amazing! I love to be able to look up the words I am unsure of the meaning. It is easy to use. Not having shelves of books around will be great.
Great product. Publishers could take better care with graphics. 
I just got a Kindle for my birthday because I'm running out of room for books in my house. Also, I like to lie on the couch to read and some of those hardback books are too big to hold for very long in that position. The Kindle can store something like 200 books and is pretty light. The best thing about the Kindle, though, is that you can go online at any time with it. It isn't the best web browser, but you can look up information on Wikipedia, etc. and there are no monthly fees for online access. It uses Whispernet, which is a cell-phone network. Just like a cell phone you can see how good your connection is with a bar display. Again, no monthly connection fee is awesome! It will be great to use on those road trips when I get into conversations with my son about various topics. A lot of these conversations end with, "When we get home, look that up online to find out what it means", etc. Now, we don't have to wait.
The biggest problem with Kindle is the display of pictures. The Kindle does four shades of gray and can display very nice graphics. But some book publishers seem to be fairly lax when it comes to migrating their photos and graphs to the Kindle. For reading most fiction, this is fine, but history books have lots of battle maps, and photos. I don't have much experience yet, but a fast look at a couple of books in the Liberation Trilogy disappoints. (You can download the first part of any book for free, directly to the Kindle. Full book downloads through Whispernet usually take less than a minute). Also I tried an issue of Analog Magazine on the Kindle. I had not read that mag in many years, but I remember that every story had an accompanying illustration. I was very disappointed to see that the Kindle version had no illustrations (except front cover)! The stories were nice to read, but no illustrations is just inexcusable. I don't think this is the Kindle's fault: it seems to be mere laziness by the publishers.Also, I don't think big format picture books would work well on Kindle because the screen space is too small.
So, with that caveat, I think the Kindle is great.
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