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Plenty of free e-books in Mobipocket format show up fine on Kindle.

The Kindle has many flaws, but it does allow you to read a few different non-DRM formats.

Typically ebook readers are larger than PMP's with larger screens. If you're going to read for a few hours, then the screen of a typical PMP becomes pretty eye-straining (due to size, contrast, and brightness).

Hack let you convert encrypted Mobipocket files that were intended for another reader so that that work on Kindle.

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DX user's guide

You can leave this guide at any time by pressing the Home button on your Kindle. If you prefer to read the Kindle DX User's Guide side-by-side with the device, ...link to new window

Amazon Kindle Guide

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Kindle, Free Google Books Guide " Kindle Review – Kindle 3 ...

This Kindle Google Free Books Guide will help you convert Free Google Books (both ePub and PDF formats) and read them on your Kindle (1, 2 or DX) ...link to new window

Your Unoffical Guide to the Amazon Kindle

News, information, and how-to advice on e-books and the Amazon Kindle wireless reading device "Unofficial Guide" to the Amazon Kindle! "Every book ever printed in ...link to new window

MobileRead Wiki - Visual Kindle Guide

Amazon Kindle 1 & 2. This is the home page of the Visual Kindle Guide as created by This guide has step-by-step instructions with pictures to show you ...link to new window

xkcd: Kindle

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Amazon.com

Online retailer of books, CDs, videos, DVDs, toys and games, electronics, kitchenware, computers, and more. ...link to new window

Kindle 2 User's Guide

Kindle User's Guide. This section provides an overview of Kindle and highlights a few You can leave this guide at any time by pressing the Home button on your Kindle. ...link to new window

Your Guide to the Kindle E-Book Reader - News

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The Kindle Fan Guide

The Kindle. Fan Guide. An unofficial handbook for Amazon's. awesome the original Kindle (1,400 MB instead of 115 MB). The Kindle 2 offers a completely new ...link to new window

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Amazon Introduces Two New Aggressively Priced Kindle eReaders

Amazon released its third-generation Kindle July 28, and the device's "experimental features," including a Web browser, hint at its possible future directions. ...link to new window

Kindle 3 quietly adds microphone: voice-control coming?

Amazon.com has introduce its new generation of Kindle eReaders, which feature a new electronic-ink screen, a 21 percent smaller body while still keeping the same 6-inch-size reading area, and a 15 percent lighter weight at just 8.7 ounces than the previous generation. Amazon says the new Kindle also offers 20 percent faster page turns, up to one month of battery life, double the storage to 3,500 ... ...link to new window

Amazon Kindle Features Hint at Future Direction

Here are the 20 most and least economically stressed counties with populations, according to The Associated Press Economic Stress Index. ...link to new window

Amazon Will Launch New Kindle in August

G allatin Valley, Mont. — I was driving south from a campground on the Gallatin River south of Bozeman when I saw a hitchhiker. My first inclination was to pass him by; and I did, but I looked at him carefully as I drove by. He was a young guy bearing a large backpack. He was a big guy, unshaven for several days, but something about him looked very sane, and I pulled over and let him catch up to ... ...link to new window

20 Most, Least Stressed Counties

New Kindle focuses on price, not color display Ildiko Juhasz Amazon announced on Wednesday that it will release its next generation Kindle August 27. The new Kindle will keep its black-and-white display instead of adopting a color screen, like some thought it would do to compete with Apple's iPad. The new Kindle will instead focus on price and general improvements. ...link to new window

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