<p>If you buy a book through fictionwise, can you download it to Kindle? I don’t know how the Kindle works and if there is some agreement with other ebook companies.</p>
<p>What’s weird is that The Thornbirds is available, but The First Man in Rome isn’t and they are by the same author. I didn’t check if they are both published by the same person.</p>
<p>My main worry is that my hubby will spend the 250+ on the Kindle, and I’ll still have to be sneaking books into the house ;)</p>
<p>*I’ll still have to be sneaking books into the house *
:)</p>
<p>[help with kindle](<a href=“http://www.fictionwise.com/help/kindleFaq.htm”>http://www.fictionwise.com/help/kindleFaq.htm</a>)</p>
<p>Oh, Awesome!! I have never been to fictionwise, I’m going to check it out!!</p>
<p>Good to know you can download from there too!! Thanks!</p>
<p>I tried one of these sites direct from my Kindle. It said it downloaded, but it didn’t open. As I said above, I’m going to try to do it to my PC and then transfer to Kindle.</p>
<p>Here’s a link to a list of sites which have free Kindle books.</p>
<p>[Free</a> Kindle Ebooks | The Kindle Warehouse](<a href=“http://thekindlewarehouse.com/free-kindle-ebooks/]Free”>http://thekindlewarehouse.com/free-kindle-ebooks/)</p>
<p>The manybooks site had a search function which allows you to see if the book is available in Kindle format for free on other sites. No luck with First Man in Rome.</p>
<p>We are a 2 kindle family. I’ve had mine for a year this December. I gave my husband his for birthday, recently. I am one of those people that have several books going simultaneously. So, I have the current fiction I’m reading, a non-fiction book on diabetes, and a Bible, which I also take notes in during the church service. With the kindle you can have 6 downloads of the same “thing” at the same time, assuming all the downloads are on the same account. So, for instance … I got my husband Dan Brown’s new book and had it downloaded to his kindle. I was then able to download it to mine and not pay an additional price. Once I read a book, I delete it now so it sits archived in my “virtual library” where I can pull it down again any time I want. Makes finding books easier as I tend to read a lot of the same authors, and I was getting confused on titles and books and what I’d already read. We have a ton of the free classics, which we are heartily enjoying. Both of us are reading a lot of literature we never read before or were too young to appreciate when we were in high school and were forced. 
I also get a lot of books from my favorite authors that are years old … or can’t be found in the store anymore. I pay anywhere from $3.00-$5.00 for those. I like the fact that the kindle’s not backlit. For me reading it is no more strain on my eyes than reading a book is … unlike what happens when I sit at a backlit computer for too long. </p>
<p>I wish it were easier to share books between friends, but unless you want to put multiple people on one account (and you have that kind of relatinship where you trust each other with the credit card), the kindle doesn’t really work well with that. </p>
<p>I throw my kindle in my purse; it goes everywhere I go. I seriously use it every day. It may be a luxury … but it’s a luxury that I am consistant with and don’t feel bad about having. Sure is saving me bookshelf space; it was getting ridiculous. </p>
<p>Always wanted to read Harry Potter (my kids grew up with those books), and I’ve been watching the movies unspoiled. Thought … wow, that’ll be great on kindle, not having to lug those big books around. But J.K. Rowling has not allowed her books to be published that way, so there are some books that you still can’t access.</p>
<p>Oh, btw, we lost our home computer for about 2 weeks this summer, and we don’t have PDA’s or I-phones. I used the experimental feature on my kindle, kept up with reading email in two separate accounts and in my yahoo account was able to send basic messages. Not easy to send, but doable. I was also able to do google searches and get the scores for my husband. Not as fast or easy (by any imagination) than normal internet access … but kept me from going stir crazy! Also means I’m not getting an iphone any time soon since I’m getting this access without having to pay a montly charge to have it.</p>
<p>zebes</p>
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I think this might be an operating issue with your particular Kindle. I’ve never had this problem with mine – I would contact Amazon.</p>
<p>I really like my Kindle. Our bookshelves were overflowing, and this just makes so much sense. My aging eyes appreciate the adjustable font, and the built in dictionary is great. I’m currently reading “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” for my Book Club, and there’s a ton of words I don’t recognize – mostly having to do with armor.</p>
<p>I think the “Tell the publisher you want this book on Kindle” button on Amazon is only to send a message to the publisher, but it’s no guarantee it will be made available anytime soon, if ever.</p>
<p>I bought a clip-on, flexible neck light to go on the Kindle cover I bought, and it works great for lighting up the Kindle screen. There are a lot of different style covers available – I bought basic black leather, but not the “official” one that says “Amazon” in the lower corner. Mine opens and closes like a book, i.e. hinged down the left side, and the cover can be folded in back for easier holding. Some are hinged across the top and turn into easel-like stands that hold the book up for reading.</p>
<p>CB–Thanks. I’ll try again and see what happens.</p>
<p>DD has the Kindle and likes it. The reason we went with Kindle over Sony had to do with the fact that her regular laptop is a mac. I can’t remember the technical part of it (I hate that stuff) but the Kindle was definitely mac friendly and back then -bout 2 years ago-there was some question about the mac.</p>
<p>Like EmeraldKity, I have an iphone and downloaded the free kindle app. I really like it. But I imagine its size isn’t for everyone.</p>
<p>Just for grins, I downloaded the B&N ebook application to my Blackberry. I had a nail appt, so I thought why not? I have an hour to kill. So, I downloaded the free edition of “A Room With a View”. With my reading glasses, I was actually able to read it. It was kind of a pain though, because, obviously, there isn’t much on each page and it takes about 70 clicks of the roller ball to get through a chapter ;)</p>
<p>My husband has taken the hint as is going to get me a Kindle. I sent him both webpages with information on both, and he is worried that, even though the Nook looks really neat and has great features, it might have some glitches that need to be worked out. It seems like Kindle has already gone through the growing pains, and is likely to be more reliable at this point.</p>
<p>Funny thing, at the nail place, I was sitting there with my phone, reading for the whole hour. The ladies must have thought I was nuts!!</p>
<p>D2 got a Kindle a few weeks ago, and received a lot of gift certificates to buy books. She is in heaven. We are thrilled too because we normally would have a carry on just for her books (too heavy for check in bag). We are going away tonight, she will just have a very small Kindle to carry this time.</p>
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<p>I sit with my iPhone at the nail place and either read a book on my Kindle for iPhone, or watch shows I’ve downloaded through iTunes. (“The Office,” yay!) Plus I can check my email. It’s wonderful!</p>
<p>Still don’t have a sense, though … I do like the Kindle on the iPhone concept but I can’t rely on that for all my reading, the screen’s too small. Should I go Kindle or Nook? I still don’t have a sense of what the advantage is of the Nook over the Kindle?</p>
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<p>I don’t think that really means anything, though. They might react if they got a TON of requests for a particular older book, but I don’t think they can really act on that. </p>
<p>I do like the one-click capability of buying through Amazon. Would the Nook have a similar set-up? </p>
<p>I’m just not finding out enough anywhere to understand the differences, side by side, other than that Nook is through B&N. </p>
<p>And is there a point to having email on a Kindle or a Nook? I have a smartphone already, so what good would the email bring me? I don’t need another address. Or am I missing something?</p>
<p>Funny coincidence – people here talking about Guttenberg.org and all the free books, and our local newspaper runs a little blurb about it, too. I checked out the site, but I don’t understand how it works – how do I get a book from the site onto my Kindle? (I know, I’m technologically challenged.) Do I download it to my computer and then somehow get it onto my Kindle? Since getting the Kindle I’ve only gotten books from Amazon.</p>
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CBBBlinker,</p>
<p>I, too, run on the technologically challenged end of things so I haven’t done much regardinging e-books from other sites. But I did notice if you go to Kindle’s message forum at Amazon there are tons of tech geeks who know all the ins and outs of everything. They are constantly posting how to do things, what can and cannot be done, and what sites work better than others. I just haven’t partaked … yet. :)</p>
<p>zebes</p>
<p>Note of interest:
In today’s paper it said Nook has sold out online as far as Christmas ordering. They can’t promise anything before Jan 4th for anything ordered after yesterday. They’ll give you a certificate that you can give as your gift, saying to someone that “you’re the proud owner …blah, blah, blah” but it won’t be arriving under the tree.</p>
<p>zebes</p>
<p>I bought one of those kindle how to books when I first got the device.</p>
<p>While I haven’t tried it yet, the author of the book says to type in the google search bar “Project Gutenberg Magic Catalog” which takes you to the collection that allows you to download free books right to the kindle without any cables.</p>
<p>I am going to try it right now.</p>
<p>See my last post…It couldn’t have been easier. Way easier to find the books I wanted through this Project Gutenberg than the free kindle books which took me a good long while to scroll through. I just downloaded the CIA Fact Book from 1994. You never know when I will need to pull that information up for casual conversation, right? </p>
<p>I got the directions from Stephen Windwalker’s “The Complete User’s Guide to the Amazing Kindle 2: Tips, Tricks and Links to Unlock Cool Features and Save You hundreds on Kindle Content”.</p>
<p>I think it was $2.00 from the Kindle store. I highly recommend it! I am still learning things from this ebook after getting it last month. There are hundreds of hyperlinks that you can bookmark, and a lot of info on how to get free content, or use features that aren’t so well known to the public. </p>
<p>Also, one of the posters (I think Pizzagirl?) mentioned that she didn’t understand why you would need to have net access as she has a smartphone.</p>
<p>But not everyone does. I do have one, but the screen and fonts are both too small for me to use for any length of time without massive eyestrain. Not everyone has a Blackberry or an Iphone, and some people refuse to pay the data plan cost, which can be pricey. </p>
<p>This isn’t a perfect solution getting email this way, using the Kindle for those features. </p>
<p>The other thing that I like about it is that it is still easier to read off a Kindle with a glare than a smartphone when you are outdoors.</p>
<p>Once the Project Gutenberg Magic Catalog downloads to your machine, it will be in your list of books. You can access the entire catalog, that way from now on.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the info, littlegreen – I’m going to check out that book.</p>