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lol now thats just lazy ..

but like your style lol :D

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I believe(from what I have read about them) that they will read to you....so any downloaded book will become an audio book

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so you can be sent to sleep by stephen hawkings soothing voice :D

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And if you hear one you will turn it off straight away, its an awful sounding computer generated voice with a yankee accent :eek:

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well, if you can't be bothered to read it yourself that is all you deserve :)

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I listen to a lot of audiobooks whilst I am at work :p :)

Sure does pass the time

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I completely LOVE my Kindle, but didnt think I would when I was given it as a gift. The screen looks exactly like a paper and ink page and you can read it one handed, leaving a valuable hand free for a cuppa. Its given my overbursting book shelves a rest and saved me money on new books. whenever im somewhere that has wifi, I can shop for free books, which is a joy. The best bit is being able to change text size to suit you and you can use the cursor to get an instant dictionary explanation for any unfamiliar terms. It is the future!

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Could not have put it better myself. I actually left mine in the box for the first few days after I'd got it, such is my suspicion of modern technology. However, when I did start to use it, I couldn't believe how easy it was. Got it with me at the moment, so I can have a read when I go out for a coffee at dinnertime. Wouldn't be without it!

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I have to admit I DID look at them in Bury on Saturday........the concept of reading a heavy weight book in bed...without the weight appeals to me just a little......but I'm not sure about the Kindle......is it correct that it only takes the Amazon published books and PDF?.........I have looked on Flea Bay for alternative readers......hence the question for the techies........I think I would want something t hat would allow for colour illustrations as I would also use it for the children(they are really into reading, but being young, they also want the distraction of pictures).
I am going to need to do some more investigating I think.

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You cant write in the margins either Margaret

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Ooh Bernard, you don't do that do you?????Sacrilege.
I never write in the margins......even when I was studying I never wrote in the margins.....my study books were full of slips of paper with my own notes on.
I do have some study books that I bought second hand, and very cheap.....now they have notes in the margins.
I have to say I found them interesting, but still wouldn't deface my own books like that.

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In a way, you actually can add your notes to books and link them to specific passages in the book. It's a modern way of 'writing in the margins'.

I love my Kindle for leisure reading.

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Thing is any tablet is backlit so will be harder on your eyes(especially at night or in strong sunlight) than the e-ink of a kindle, the backlighting also means much much poorer battery life - hours vs weeks.

yes its a handy app on a smartphone/tablet but the screen on the kindle is what makes it such a useful tool. My friend has a 3G one which comes with free data so he also uses it to check up on websites and forums whilst commuting.

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fair enough but tablets do have brightness control etc and isnt the ability to surf the web on a kindle not realy supposed to happen and is an exploit which could get stopped with an update of kindle chose to

havnt looked into the surfing aspect somone brought it up on here before but when my mate was looking at kindle it said the only free internet access was to the book store not unlimited surfing anywhere

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it definately works for BBC news and a number of other sites