Turn Your PC Into A Kindle

cool -- amazon has titles for free also so you can try it out. You register your PC kindle with your usual amazon login then when you buy a book - or for free - it instantly downloads and appears in your PC kindle. You can download books you have bought also.

e-books will never be as good as paper until the screen is as large as a "standard" text book, or large enough that constant zooming is not required. Therefore I will continue to buy paper books.

Since I do not want to pay twice for the same book, it seems to me that I would be more likely to buy a kindle if buying a paper copy from Amazon entitled me to download the kindle version for free (or for the cost of the download over whispernet).

It would be useful having ready access to the paper books in my collection without having to carry them everywhere, but nothing beats the kinesthesia of riffling through pages to find something by pattern recognition rather than a search utility. Lying on my side in bed with a paperback held between thumb and 2 fingers is something not easy to replicate with an ebook reader.

I'm sure that I'm not alone in this regard, so this would be a way of selling more kindles.

I thought the whole point of a Kindle was that it was easier on the eyes than a computer monitor. I don't read long passages on a computer monitor now, and using Kindle software wouldn't change that.

I will buy/use a kindle (or more importantly buy books for it) right after they remove the "feature" that lets them remotely delete whatever property I have purchased from them whenever they wish.

In other words, Probably never. there are plenty of e-book formats that are not encumbered with such draconian DRM and big brother control mechanisms.

I just use Microsoft Reader / Adobe PDF formats for my books. Microsoft reader has a nice format I like.

You can always convert different ebook formats for free using software you can easily find by googling etc.
Also theres epub ebook reader widget on Opera that I know of. And Calibre is a good libarary reader I think..

Anyway just saying there tons of more easier ways :)

I'm afraid I don't see the appeal of the Kindle. I don't like being hit up with a wireless connection so I use the French "Bookeen" which allows me to download to my computer and then transfer to the reader. As well, it uses the standard epub format which I can read on the computer as well as on the Bookeen. Seems safer and much more sensible - and there are more books than one can read in a lifetime available free in the epub format.

Wake me up when Kindle and its spawn allow me to feed it the zillions of free text files from gutenberg.org and other similar sites.

It does NOT turn a PC into a Kindle by any stretch - not unless it flips the bits, Kindle-fashion. PC screens are terrible for extended reading; if they weren't, there would be no need for Kindle screen technology.

Having used the Kindle as well as this free reader from Amazon, I have to say I'm not impressed with the reader. Granted, I downloaded and tried this several months ago so maybe there is a newer version... but using it is like using an acient version of the Adobe Reader. Slow, not at all intuitive, generally unimpressive. Sorry I can't be more specific but I am working from memory--I uninstalled it after moving my purchased books to a friend's Kindle. Also, the lackluster performance is not due to inadequate hardware as I've got a quad-core with 4 Gb RAM, plenty of drive space, and am running Win 7 Ultimate.

I downloaded and installed this app but it ran a file - WISPTIS.EXE, - constantly as a service and made my XP, SP3 system act funny, so I uninstalled it.

This is known since a long time. The kindle app is also available for few mobile phones like iphone etc.

I had successfully installed it and also downloaded both free and the books which I bought. I had a trouble a few days later now the books are not opening and the app is downloading the book forever. I hope that it will be solved soon. this is why I would like to convert them to PDF or even buy in PDF. If anyone knows a proven good solution do let me know in this regard.

thanks

I have not tried the Kindle as yet or Barns and Noble but I have used Microsoft Reader and of course their is Adobe Reader and Foxit. Reading a book on the PC is no big deal. Why download another program that has a different format that is not compatable with anything else? Why we might as well use a Job's format.

Barnes and Noble has had their PC software up for months. It's about time Amazon caught up.

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nookstudy/?cds2Pid=14834&linkid=1615707

A great source for classic literature - Twain, Whitman, Baum, et. al. - is found at this URL: http://freekindlebooks.org/. All formats display very well on the PC version of Kindle.

So we can download any free e-books so we can test how we read them ?