Amazon Kindle

[DavidHouston]

Friends,

I apologize in advance if this question is off-topic, but I do not know what the appropriate forum is. My questions is how a Kindle owner can download books to his Kindle in Thailand. Assume that the owner is a U.S. person and and registered his Kindle with a U.S. address. Downloading books in the U.S. comes through the U.S. cell phone network. Can one download Amazon books using a Wi-fi internet connection in Thailand?

Does anyone have any experience with the Kindle outside of the U.S.?

Thanks.

[klons]

Owning & using the Kindle outside of the U.S. : A Quick Reference Guide

(Edited: January 26, 2010)

FACT1:

Amazon now allows purchase & download of Kindle contents in 100s of countries worldwide including Thailand

http://www.kindlethai.com/howtos

[klons]

The instruction below provides necessary information on how to use the Kindles outside of the US.

http://www.kindlethai.com/node/4

[DavidHouston]

Thank you, Klons, for your help. I very much appreciate your information.

[LaurenJadeTaylor]

Amazon Kindle is a software and hardware platform developed by Amazon.com (subsidiary Lab126) for the rendering and displaying of e-books and other digital media. Three hardware devices, known as "Kindle," "Kindle 2," and "Kindle DX" support this platform. Kindle software applications exist for Windows, iPhone OS, BlackBerry and Mac OS X. Amazon's first hardware device, the Kindle First Generation, was only released in the United States on November 19, 2007.

[DavidHouston]

Friends,

My Kindle just walked in the door from Amazon. What a spiffy machine!

Soon after learning how to move the keys and what they do, I looked up "Thai" in the "search store" section and "That: An Essential Grammar" by David Smyth emerged.

The "digital list price is almost $40 US, the print list price is about $41 US, and the Kindle price is $28.75 U.S., above the average price for many Kindle books of $9.99 but a 30% reduction from the print list price.

Kindle comes gratis with "The New Oxford American Dictionary"; I am impressed by how both sides of the Atlantic are given a nod here. Definitions, pronunciation guides, and an etymology are included. I'm impressed. Now, if there were only a Thai dictionary!

(I'm now waiting for "The Baltic Gambit" by Dewey Lamdin to download; I am an nut for British sea novels. . . . The download is now complete and our hero, Alan Lewrie is sitting at Old Baily with his father, Sir Hugo.)

[Disclaimer: I own no Amazon stock.]

[jazzbo]

For those less gadget-oriented (gadget-obsessed?) there is Kindle for PC where you can buy and download books via Internet for the same price as the Kindle... Software is free and provides excellent graphics... books purchased can be later transferred to Kindle device should you so desire.

[RickBradford]

I recently downloaded Kindle for PC and am favourably impressed. You can easily turn PDFs into Kindle books with a piece of software called Mobibook, makes long PDFs much easier to read.