I received a kindle as a gift and tried to read a travel book on it on a trip and found it difficult to maneuver through specific chapters and maps were all sorts of problems. Haven’t used the kindle again.
YoHo YoHo, travel books and cookbooks are 2 forms of books that are best in paper form. Fiction and non fiction books are best. If a travel book was the only book I had ever tried on a kindle I wouldn’t like it either.
I actually only use the travel books on my nookHD, which is essentially a tablet. The travel books don’t work that well on the regular e-readers…
My daughter has decided she wants a Kindle for Christmas (and I’m SO THRILLED, because she was one of those kids that I read to incessantly when she was little but who never really seemed to read for pleasure until lately.)
Of course I’m getting her one, but I was wondering: is it possible to pre-load it with some e-books before I give it to her, or is that one of those things she’ll need to do herself once she gets her account set up? I have a Kindle myself, but I’ve never bought a book (I just check them out from the library).
We have this running joke about a few books I keep telling her she should read that she says are “too long” to buy in paper form (The Passage, I’m looking at you). I thought it would be fun to get some of these for her in e-form.
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You can purchase books and gift them to her Amazon account. But she will have to register the Kindle to download books to the device, iirc.