I’ve recommended buying a Kindle as a gift to someone. It would be for reading books, not for watching video.
My Kindle is circa 5 years old so I’m not up to date on what to buy for reading. Is the below an appropriate choice (increased Gb and 4G will be decided on price).
Kindle Paperwhite – Waterproof, 6″ High-Resolution Display, 8GB – without special offers
Perfect, I’d say.
If you’re giving it away, does the Kindle come locked to your account? I bought one for my wife, and I pay for all her downloads!
I bought Mr B both of his Kindles as Christmas pressies. It was very easy to switch them over to his account.
Ideal. Paperwhite e-readers are better than the Fire for outdoor reading e.g. by the pool, as the screens don’t reflect light like a phone screen does.
I’d perhaps go for the significantly cheaper 4gb though, unless they’re an absolute rabid reader.
Am now picturing mini on a lounger by the pool, scrolling through the online edition of Record Collector while elegantly sipping an Um Bongo Daiquiri.
Aren’t you always?
Rumbled!
I’ve ordered the one above.
I think mine is 4Gb and it only hit the memory limit when I had about 50 magazines on it (I assume bigger files than books due to pictures and fancy index navigation). I deleted the read mags and I can’t see me ever having an issue with space again. So the 8Gb version should not be an issue unless she has an audiobook addiction and a refusal to delete already heard books.
I ticked the gift button when I ordered it so it’s not attached to my account.
A very handy freely-downloadable companion to the Kindle is Calibre, a cross-platform open-source suite of E-Book software.
You can use it to sort and group your e-books into virtual libraries by author title or keyword, remove them from your Kindle for storage to save space and put them back again when you fancy re-reading, access alternative sources of e-books (including free ones), harvest online sources for content and convert it to e-books, send content between devices, change the file format if necessary for compatibility, even change the font if you don’t like it.
I find it very useful. The current version (as of 25th May 2019) is v3.43
https://calibre-ebook.com
Me too, it’s excellent (though I’m a Kobo boy).
FYI
It turns out my own Kindle dates back to Christmas 2011. So it’s seven and a half years old and still working.
I’m on my second E-reader, a Kindle Fire which is probably 6 or 7 years old now and still working OK. Previously I had a basic b&w Paperwhite, which in retrospect I preferred. A lot easier on the eyes. Unfortunately I trod on it in the dark one night and completely buggered the screen.