Kindle Wireless Reading

2 Responses to “Is there a website that lets you trade your conventional books for electronic versions (for your Kindle?)?”

1. Maxim says:

   September 4, 2010 at 12:03 am

   No, there’s no such a place or website that let you trade your physical books. I’m a book lover and a Kindle owner, but I still have tons of physical books on my bookshelf. If I really like the book, I’ll pay extra for buying it on my Kindle. You can find quite a lot of free books on the Kindle, however.

   I own the Kindle, so let me give you some of my opinions. It is a great device, and I’ve to say I love it! I think I’ve read over 30 books with my Kindle, no glitches so far! And since Kindle books are cheaper than actual books, I think I’ve saved around $120 on buying books already.

   One of the reasons I love my Kindle is that it has helped me improve a lot on my efficiency and utilize my time. Before I have the Kindle, waiting time like when I’m waiting for friends or waiting for shuttle bus or some thing like that is simply wasted. Now I just need to bring the Kindle along with me, and all my favorite books are inside it. Another thing I like the most is the text-to-speech function, which means I can "read" books without even holding or looking at the Kindle. Now I like to use this function when I’ve myself busy on some boring things, say when I’m on the step machine or doing some housework…

   I like reading and at the beginning I did miss a bit on the feeling of reading books. But now I love to hold the Kindle, the e-ink seems to work very well, it is really like reading books… Now I often read with the Kindle for several hours but I don’t feel tired… And I now prefer to manage all books inside the Kindle rather than my never big enough bookshelf… And like to do bookmarking, annotation, dictionary lookup without any additional thing but a Kindle.

   There are quite a lot of free books, and many Kindle books, magazines and newspapers are cheaper than the actual paper version. I remember I read these reviews about the benefits of the Kindle when I decided to buy it:

   http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Freview%2FR2DUM7S4XW06QN%3Fie%3DUTF8%26ASIN%3DB00154JDAI%26nodeID%3D%26ref%255F%3Dcm%255Fcr%255Fpr%255Fcmt&tag=elec-m-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957

   And below are the millions of free books and full list of bestselling books for the Kindle, that you can check from time to time:

   http://www.amazon.com/gp/b/?node=2245146011&tag=elec-m-20

   http://www.amazon.com/b?node=1286228011&tag=elec-m-20

   Last but not least, Amazon just announced new models of the Kindle reader (mine is Kindle 2, and now it upgrades to the Kindle 3 and sold at the same price). I’ve mentioned quite a lot about the new Kindle and which model to choose, in another answer here:

   http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100730192050AAMa0pH

   Hope it helps
2. Mike P says:

   September 4, 2010 at 12:03 am

   No, there is no such thing that can exchange / trade conventional books for ebooks. Ebooks and actual books are sold as separate versions, just like Audio CD and MP3 are sold separately for music.

   I love my Kindle very much, btw. If you’re thinking about getting the Kindle, I’ll say get it instead of other ebook readers and you won’t regret. Right now I’ve read over 50 books with the Kindle, and I really like the idea that I can bring and store all the books with the handy device. Besides, it uses the e-ink technology, it is really clear like reading books; and even I read with the device for long hours, I don’t feel tired. The internet browsing comes handy as well when I want to look for information on some specific area. My only complaint is the white case, the Kindle is only sold in white at the time when I got it, but now the new Kindle has graphite case which looks much better

   Kindle books are cheaper than hard copies. I suggest you to read this review from a top reviewer who is also a book lover, it outlines quite a lot of benefits of the Kindle and also why it is worth especially at the end of the review:

   http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Freview%2FR9J54TZ1541OR%3Fie%3DUTF8%26ref%255F%3Dcm%255Fcr%255Frdp%255Fperm&tag=more_info-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957

   And there are some websites, where you can find more than a million of free books for the Kindle, so that’s why you no longer need to get to library, you can actually own these books:

   http://www.amazon.com/gp/b/?node=2245146011&tag=more_info-20

   If you need to read PDF with charts and graphics, you may want to go for the larger Kindle DX (both the new Kindle and the new Kindle DX are now at a cheaper price and with better contrast). Read this review and you should be able to decide which one to get:

   http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Freview%2FR23V08M2LNB81I%3Fie%3DUTF8%26ASIN%3DB0015TCML0%26nodeID%3D%26ref%255F%3Dcm%255Fcr%255Fpr%255Fcmt&tag=more_info-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957

   Hope this helps.

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