Head Snake Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 Where did you buy it and how able are you to download books you want? I am tired of trying to source books from stores that don't have much here in Bangkok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carmine6 Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 (edited) Can't help you with obtaining an actual Kindle, but there is now a free PC kindle app. If you had a tablet PC or something like that you could transport it around. Battery life would be of course not as good as a kindle. One good thing is if you have it on different PCs, it'll download the same content. Also onto the mobile phone apps. I'll look for the link, but for some reason I always have to search for the download at the Amazon site. Edit: Interesting, Google gets there faster than trying to find the exact search at the Amazon website. http://www.amazon.com/gp/kindle/pc Edited February 23, 2010 by Carmine6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedrockguesthouse Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 Blue Sky Books in Ban Phe have about 13000 books. What are u looking for i can ask the owner Jim. Rgds Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prudent_rabbit Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 Yes I have a Kindle, registered it at Amazon and have bought books through Amazon, I pay with a credit card (Amex) issued in Thailand and use a Thai address. Download the books to the PC, then transfer to the Kindle, very easy, about 30-45 secsonds to download a book. I now have 83 titles on the Kindle, the majority downloaded from the Guttenburg project (all free) and if you do a search in Amazon and use price as the filter, you can see that Amazon offers a number of free books as well. I find the Kindle to be brilliant and I love it, understand that its not for everyone and many people will get drawn into the argument about whats better, real books or e-books, its like the Mac Vs PC debate, your choice and your choice alone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonobo Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 Just finished my first Kindle book. I have to admit, I was hesitant, but after only a short while, I pretty much forgot I was on a Kindle and not a real book. It became "invisible technology," which I guess is their intent. I have four more hard-copy books I brought back with me, but as soon as those are done, it is back to ordering Kindle-ized books. One book I want to read is coming out in hard-cover and Kindle in May, which is great, as I normally wait until paperback copies come out. So I will get it early and at the Kindle price. You can order it from Amazon for delivery in Thailand. I just helped a friend do it. PM me if you need help in that. I like the Kindle better than the Nook or the Sony reader. Not only are the Kindle books cheaper, but the machine itself is faster (although the Nook's color menu is eye-pleasing.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Head Snake Posted February 23, 2010 Author Share Posted February 23, 2010 Blue Sky Books in Ban Phe have about 13000 books. What are u looking for i can ask the owner Jim.Rgds Mark Right now, I'm looking at "Master your Metabolism" by Julian Michaels. But I have found that its very typical if somebody suggests a book to read, I can't find it in Bangkok or any other city around here except Singapore . Its frustrating to want to read a book here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLaughingMan Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 Before anybody runs out and buys a kindle look into what the ipad is going to offer for ebooks, much nicer than kindle. Ipad comes out in March. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angiud Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 Main problem is the LCD screen vs E-ink screen. Flickering vs paper-like screen. 8 hours vs 15 days battery life. In full sun cannot read vs in full sun can read very well. Etc etc etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveBKK Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 Suggest waiting for the Apple iPad to come out. At the very least, Amazon will surely be dropping the prices on the Kindle. The Kindle is great but it's a single purpose machine (it does that single purpose quite well). What appeals to me about the iPad, if I get tired of reading, well I can: - watch a video/movie - play a game (tens of thousands to choose from) - surf the web (yeah it doesn't have flash but many website are building substitute flash-less sites anyway) - dictate (or type) an email or letter (voice dictation which is quite good) Plus...I really just love touch screen interfaces. Kindle just seems so old school to me with the buttons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
negreanu Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 Suggest waiting for the Apple iPad to come out. At the very least, Amazon will surely be dropping the prices on the Kindle.The Kindle is great but it's a single purpose machine (it does that single purpose quite well). What appeals to me about the iPad, if I get tired of reading, well I can: - watch a video/movie - play a game (tens of thousands to choose from) - surf the web (yeah it doesn't have flash but many website are building substitute flash-less sites anyway) - dictate (or type) an email or letter (voice dictation which is quite good) Plus...I really just love touch screen interfaces. Kindle just seems so old school to me with the buttons. I think the ipad looks great. BUT think i will be sticking to kindle2 for all my reading needs. Although the ipad is fairly lightweight extended use in reading i think my arms will get tired holding it. Where as the kindle is just so light you forget its even there. Eink also is nice and easy on the eyes. I will get a ipad but not for reading tho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLaughingMan Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 The ipad is 1.5 pounds... how heavy is the kindle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
negreanu Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 0.6lbs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monokuro Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 I'm waiting for the Nook to become available in an international version. iPad is no good for me, as I want the comfort of e-Ink. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rexall Posted March 14, 2010 Share Posted March 14, 2010 You can buy online at Amazon.com, Kindle Store, and they will ship to Thailand, FedEx or equivalent, around $35 shipping if I remember correctly. As the OP said, you can buy books online, download to your computer, and than upload them to your Kindle via USB cable. Very easy. However, you do not need a computer. The Kindle is a wireless device, and you and shop at the Kindle shop right from the Kindle itself, order by credit card, and receive wirelessly, usually in about one minute. Admittedly today's Kindle (Kindle 2) is like a Model T Ford, but it is a dam_n fine Model T, and the harbinger of great things to come, and come soon. Bigger screens, lighter weight, faster and more responsive, more capable of functioning like the iPad as a real tablet computer. Amazon missed the boat on touch screen capability, and Sony has picked up the slack. Future versions will all be touch-screen. I got mine (and Sony SR600 on the way) because I have low vision and have not been able to read an actual book for five years. In can increase Kindle font size to 18 pt. which I CAN read, and the "e-ink" technology is much kinder on my eyes than LCD, back-lit screens. I am actually sitting in bed and reading "books" again, and it is terrific. Aloha, Rex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danfred Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 I ran across this site a few months back... they sell/ship Kindles within Thailand... http://www.kindlethai.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
negreanu Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 I ran across this site a few months back... they sell/ship Kindles within Thailand...http://www.kindlethai.com/ really expensive! cheaper to go with amazon direct now to thailand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sceadugenga Posted June 21, 2010 Share Posted June 21, 2010 (edited) Excuse me for bumping this thread but now the iPad is released I wondered if any eBook reader owners had considered "upgrading". I must admit I like the flexibility of iPad for games, films etc, but the battery life of the readers is a compelling argument. Edit: What I meant to ask was whether books from sites like The Burgomeister's Books, http://www.truly-free.org/#nogo, can be read on an eBook reader. Edited June 21, 2010 by sceadugenga Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahsbloke Posted June 22, 2010 Share Posted June 22, 2010 (edited) Yes they can It doesn't say what format those books are in but Calibre will change formats for you. There are hundreds of sites like that, I prefer Demonoid. Edited June 22, 2010 by sarahsbloke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB1950 Posted June 22, 2010 Share Posted June 22, 2010 I ran across this site a few months back... they sell/ship Kindles within Thailand... 'http://www.kindlethai.com/' really expensive! cheaper to go with amazon direct now to thailand. I'm curious, what about the customs fee from Amazon? Could be really expensive too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Conners Posted June 22, 2010 Share Posted June 22, 2010 I don't understand why anyone can consider comparing an Ipad with an Eink reader. They are two completely different things, used for completely different purposes. Try reading a book on an Eink reader and you'll quickly see the difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickylonster Posted June 22, 2010 Share Posted June 22, 2010 I don't understand why anyone can consider comparing an Ipad with an Eink reader. They are two completely different things, used for completely different purposes. Try reading a book on an Eink reader and you'll quickly see the difference. I own a Sony E book reader , and whilst I was in the uk in January my daughter bought me a cd rom with 16.000, tittles to choose from called ` almost obsolete books.com` , I download onto my laptop and then transfer to my reader , great piece of kit , all my desired reading in one small `book`, no need to lug lots of books around when traveling , and the screen resolution is superb, just like reading an actual book, good battery life too, I only recharge it twice a month ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDNinKS Posted June 22, 2010 Share Posted June 22, 2010 I don't understand why anyone can consider comparing an Ipad with an Eink reader. They are two completely different things, used for completely different purposes. Try reading a book on an Eink reader and you'll quickly see the difference. EXACTLY!!! Apples and Oranges...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkk_mike Posted June 22, 2010 Share Posted June 22, 2010 (edited) I don't understand why anyone can consider comparing an Ipad with an Eink reader. They are two completely different things, used for completely different purposes. Try reading a book on an Eink reader and you'll quickly see the difference. EXACTLY!!! Apples and Oranges...... I got my Kindle delivered to the office in Hong Kong, but I've used it to download books in Thailand. The Kindle and an iPad are two entirely different things (and two entirely different prices). i.e. On the Kindle I can download books from Amazon while sitting on the beach without paying a penny (except for the book I'm downloading). On the iPad I can only download when in range of my wi-fi, or by paying to download through a 3G connection that I have to pay for. On the Kindle, the screen is eInk, which is a lot better for reading in sunlight. (it's like reading off paper), but is obviously worse for reading in bed (as you need an external light). However, this is also why the battery life is so long... An iPad, you will of course be able to watch movies (you can listen to mp3s on the Kindle), and the ipad has far better games (but then so does my phone, and I'm far more likely to carry my phone with me than an iPad). Don't get me wrong - I'd love an iPad for the plane (especially on Thai with their non-existant in-flight entertainment), but I'm not paying the current price for one. And other than books with colour (i.e. books with lots of pictures, atlases, really young children's books) - the Kindle is a better book reader. A Kindle lets me buy books that I can't buy here (or even if they are available here - usually for less), and better still lets me read the start of a book for free to see if I want to buy it... (and I'd feel obliged to buy if I sat down and read the whole of the first chapter in a regular book store). The only downside to the Kindle... - when I first took it to Thailand from Hong Kong, they hadn't yet blocked internet access here, so I had full FREE internet access on it - like I do when I'm in Hong Kong. A Kindle with internet access is better than a Kindle that restricts you to just Amazon's book section. I would also second getting Calibre as the way to get public domain (i.e. out of copyright) books onto your Kindle. You can do it on Amazon, but unless you're in the US, they charge you for the book if you download it wirelessly. (You can get around it by using a US address, and downloading to your PC, then syncing to your Kindle, but it's easier to just use Calibre as you can then download from sites specialising in public domain books...) Edited June 22, 2010 by bkk_mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDNinKS Posted June 23, 2010 Share Posted June 23, 2010 Amazon today announces a new price for the Kindle $189.00 A far cry from the $359 I paid a year ago (or less) Makes me think maybe they are trying to blow out old stock before launching a new model........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sceadugenga Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 Kindle, Nook and Vizplex eReader devices face mass extinction The Amazon Kindle and the Barnes & Noble Nook have taken a pricing nose dive, hitting the rock-bottom “margin floor” and ending the age of unitasking Vizplex e-Ink devices for e-book reading. In March of this year, I knew that it was coming. I just didn’t realize that it was going to happen so quickly. While the launch of the iPad almost certainly was a foretelling of the end of the dedicated eReader device, the actual extinction event started this week with Barnes & Noble’s introduction of a $149.00, Wi-Fi only Nook, as well as a significant price drop of the Wi-Fi/3G model to $199 from $259.00. This was followed by an immediate retaliation by Amazon, which dropped the price of their 3G Kindle 2 to $189.00. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Just two and a half years ago, the original Kindle was selling for $399.00. This price war and throwing down of the proverbial gauntlet was presumably instigated by Barnes & Noble because it had finally come to the realization that it was only going to be on an equal playing field with its aggressive competitor by effectively erasing the profit margins on device sales and focusing all off its efforts on its content store. For its primary competitor, B&N has poisoned the well. At the same time, this also effectively put all secondary competitors which make and distribute e-reader devices for the North American and European markets out of business or in an immediately precarious position, who presumably do not have the ability to absorb such huge price cuts due to differences in volume manufacturing costs. Companies such Spring Design, iRex, Bookeen, Kobo and Plastic Logic come to mind, just to name a few. All of these companies e-reader devices will almost certainly be gone within the next few months unless they undercut both the Nook and the Kindle on price and have better features and cheaper content, which will be extremely difficult to do. Of all of these companies which compete with Amazon and B&N, SONY may be able to weather the storm, but even this is questionable as their mid-range touchscreen reader product which has no wireless connectivity at all is $200, and their “Daily” wireless edition is $300. SONY just doesn’t play in the cheap, commodity ballpark, and they may not be able to stomach additional price cuts by Amazon and B&N as the dark and cold abyss of the “margin floor” approaches. Where is that bottom? I don’t know exactly, but I can tell you that it is very close to device manufacturing cost, which is somewhere between $90 and $125. And unfortunately, Amazon and Barnes & Noble will be unable to sustain a business on the devices when it hits that low, because the price of the most important and expensive component of those Black & White e-ink readers, the Vizplex display, is controlled by a company that exclusively manufactures and owns the rights to the electrophoretic technology used in these devices, E Ink Corporation. The “give away the razors and sell the blades” model doesn’t work with dedicated e-book readers because Amazon and Barnes & Noble’s customer base is increasingly becoming iPad and iPhone users, and shortly will also be Android phone and tablet users. In which case, there’s no reason to sell “razors” at all, especially since Android Tablets will be made out of commodity parts, will use cheap LCD display technology and will be far more capable, and many will be priced in the $200-$300 range and well within striking distance of the current price of dedicated e-readers. Indeed, e-ink may be superior for daytime reading, and at least for the time being, the hardcore reader types, most of which are Boomers, will go out and buy Kindles and Nooks for their content consumption this summer at the beach. But the Millennials will only be interested in their iPhones, iPads and Droids, with brilliant and sharp color displays, and the App versions of these e-book stores will suit most of these people fine, at least for the remaining ones that still like to read books. In the next year Vizplex e-Ink will almost certainly be revved to color technology, but for the dedicated reading device, it will be too late. By then, different competing high-performance transflective LCD displays will be on the scene, manufactured in huge volumes and will be licensed to a large number of manufacturers and will be used in many types of smartphones and tablets. And unlike e-Ink, these displays which will perform equally well outdoors and indoors will be cheap. The age of the dedicated e-Reader will then be over. Content, not obsession over the devices themselves, will be king. Did B&N herald the end of e-Reader devices by introducing such margin-hemorraging price cuts on the Nook? Kindle, Nook and Vizplex eReader devices face mass extinction | ZDNet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valjean Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 I have a Kindle and love it. Bought in the US, shipped to my mailbox then to Thailand. Download books to PC. Yeah there are bookstores here but it's so fantastics to hear about book and just get it. Fast, simple and no trip to a mall or store. Kindle versus ipad - the readability of the Kindle is very nice. But there's another factor for me. I want to read books. I spend all day on computers and heaven knows I don't need any more time checking email, browsing the web and visiting social media sites. I'm happy to not have the temptation and distraction and just read a book. I might by an ipad someday - there are scenarios where it might be nice. Today the Kindle is one of the very few electronic things I've bought in a long, long time that I love and use everyday. It's brought reading back into my busy life. Thankful for that. Did I say I love my Kindle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Conners Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 The writer has the opinion eInk readers are going to be extinct because B&N and Amazon have entered a price war on their devices and because of Ipad. I would still take an eInk reader over an Ipad any day and now with the Nook at under $150 it may be time to dive in.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angiud Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 I'm trying to buy a Nook wifi via B&N but from Thailand is impossible. Any different way to get one? (I will give my Sony to my sister. She is crazy for Ebook readers) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahsbloke Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 I also want a 150 dollar Nook .... how to get !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goatfarmer Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 How can one get a Nook in Thailand? What are the likely customs duties? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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