Sunday, January 31, 2010

Buying the first book

Ok, so I'm slow.....

One textbook has a publisher supplied Kindle version.  I was just about to order it.  Then I noticed a "sample" button.  So I clicked that.  Turned on the wireless (I keep it off to save power, plus I haven't needed it till now) and there's the Forward, Introduction, Chapter 1 and the first page of Chapter 2.  I can't make notes because it's a sample.  But it's a first step to buying a Kindle only book.

Just for fun, I put in "free Kindle book" into amazon and wham!  The list of books that is $0.00 or $0.01 is pretty good.  Sure, some of them I could do myself (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea) but they do it for me, and for free.  So I "bought" about 6 of these free books.  This will give me something to distract me from reading textbooks.  And it'll let me play with some of the official Kindle books.  I want to check out the text to speech feature.

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