Anyone bought a "Kindle"

Has anyone bought one of these "Kindle" e-book things? I'm thinking of getting one for the missus this Xmas. When I went on to Amazon.co.uk to purchase it, they redirected me to the U.S. site (amazon.com) as my delivery address is in Ireland. This has made me immediately suspicious. Why do they want me to purchase from the U.S.? I noticed that books are generally dearer from this site. Can anyone shed any light and which site would they recommend to purchase from?

Seen them advertised on tv over the weekend, £80 something, I remember a friend paying £112 from amazon last year, How much doe's it cost to down load stuff ?, What do you do ? Open an account ?

£89 delivered free in the UK,

Underdog wrote:£89 delivered free in the UK,

Reg knows where you can get electronic bibles, take ages to read that and loads of fiction.

Topdog wrote:
Reg knows where you can get electronic bibles, take ages to read that and loads of fiction.

Forgot about them baby's, Put you off reading for life, Electronic or otherwise

3rdforum wrote:Has anyone bought one of these "Kindle" e-book things? I'm thinking of getting one for the missus this Xmas. When I went on to Amazon.co.uk to purchase it, they redirected me to the U.S. site (amazon.com) as my delivery address is in Ireland. This has made me immediately suspicious. Why do they want me to purchase from the U.S.? I noticed that books are generally dearer from this site. Can anyone shed any light and which site would they recommend to purchase from?

I remember when I was on the other forums that the Tenerife ex-pats that tried to buy one were also directed to the US and had to buy them from there. I think they all received them OK. I bought 2 a few months ago as early Christmas presents for me an Mermaid. I've registered mine and it's ready to go to download books. There are I think, 3 types now. Mine were £111 each which is the 3G version with a keyboard and you can download as long as you are in range of your router. There is a dearer version that has GPRS which you can download books anywhere rather than having to be in range of your router, this clocks in at £149. The newest one is £89 and doesn't have a keyboard but still has to be in range of your router.

The Lone Ranger wrote:

I remember when I was on the other forums that the Tenerife ex-pats that tried to buy one were also directed to the US and had to buy them from there. I think they all received them OK. I bought 2 a few months ago as early Christmas presents for me an Mermaid. I've registered mine and it's ready to go to download books. There are I think, 3 types now. Mine were £111 each which is the 3G version with a keyboard and you can download as long as you are in range of your router. There is a dearer version that has GPRS which you can download books anywhere rather than having to be in range of your router, this clocks in at £149. The newest one is £89 and doesn't have a keyboard but still has to be in range of your router.

Should have called them "SWINDLE"

Aw, All that queer talk puts me off, Router , Keyboard, Il nip to the shop, And get my Daily Mail, Car Magazines delivered, Few books for christmas, Thats me,

Underdog wrote:Aw, All that queer talk puts me off, Router , Keyboard, Il nip to the shop, And get my Daily Mail, Car Magazines delivered, Few books for christmas, Thats me,

Top Shelf probably does you Steve

Dont need top shelf mate, Still fending them off in real life,

Underdog wrote:Dont need top shelf mate, Still fending them off in real life,

With an Iron

Mary, You wouldnt last 10 minutes in my shoes, You have to learn to pace yourself, Leave the Mans stuff to them that know, Oi, Your Pinny's slipped,

Underdog wrote:Mary, You wouldnt last 10 minutes in my shoes, You have to learn to pace yourself, Leave the Mans stuff to them that know, Oi, Your Pinny's slipped,

One is enuff mate, you fight the girls, leave the mens stuff to us Lads

you can get them in tesco too or curry's then you don't need to worry about delivery

Mischief Maker wrote:you can get them in tesco too or curry's then you don't need to worry about delivery

Tesco's deliver and so does our local Curry shop, had a Vindaloo the other night

Mischief Maker wrote:

2 OUT OF EIGHT IS NOT BAD THOUGH.

Thanks everybody for all the help. It's not the delivery I'm worried about, more the reason behind the fact that they sent me to the U.S. site. That means ( I think) that I would have to buy the books from that site as well which is dearer.
Mischief Maker, Tesco don't do them here only Currys and they are charging 199 euro for them

What you two on about ?. Your in the wrong place you fools,

Underdog wrote:Dont need top shelf mate, Still fending them off in real life,

I'll tell you a little story - Max Bygraves.

I WILL TELL YOU A LITTLE STORY, DWARF'S BUNGALOW

we have a kindle, all the old stuff that was written by dead people is free, but we were told you can get the latest books for free if you download Torrent so we now want to know what that is. Otherwise all the books are the same price as those in the shops its just an easier way to access them especially if you are travelling you dont want to use your weight allowance on books.

I would be interested in this torrent you mention

BOOK LIBRARIES

Use them or lose them !

I wonder if Andrew Carnegie would have given away free Kindles?