Amazon Kindle

[Scalesy]

Any thoughts? Experiences?

[Grumpy1954]

I have a penpal in US thinks they're the best thing since sliced bread. Thinking of having a look at one myself.

[John LE]

What is it? A cheap version of the iPad?

[Hideous]

Electronic book. Supposed to be the best one available at the moment.
Ordered one, hasn't turned up yet.

[Pipe & Slippers]

Work colleague has one and I borrowed it for the night- very good and very easy to use!!

[Grumpy1954]

Book reader, very portable. Suppsoed to be to books what the Mp3 was to music

[Ben_]

my mate had one and didn't really get on with it, i had a quick go one and think for the money its a good buy.

considered an ipad?

[WilliamLX]

iPad can do a lot more, but is less suited to book reading as the bright colour screen uses power constantly. The Kindle (plus other ebook readers) use a different display technology that only uses power when you 'turn' a page, so last much longer on a single charge.

[spennny]

Have a look at the Android tablet 2.1,

[Ollie]

I have the Android Kindle App on my HTC Desire. It's obviously not the same reading experience, even with the screen brightness turned down due to the different technologies involved but I have played with one in-store. They're OK - hold lots of books, charge lasts a long time, but quite expensive as they're still 'new' technology. Despite loving technology, I have to say I still prefer holding a real book (which you can get from the library for free if you wish!) when reading.