Here’s a chance to meet some fellow Kindle-owners, if you’re in the Reston, Virginia area. There will be a gathering on July 14th. Check out this thread for details!

KindleBoards members started receiving their new Kindle DXs yesterday. The earliest arrival was member andyadler who received his DX at 10 am. He did note he lives in Louisville, KY, which is the central shipping point for many Amazon deliveries. I am in Maine and mine arrived at 10:38 am and was out of its [...]

The National Kindle & Koffee meet-up is one week from today, at various Starbucks or other coffee house locations around the country.
Most Starbucks locations will allow posters to be put up within one week of an event, so I posted mine this morning at my local Starbucks on Railroad and Holly in Belingham.
You can download [...]

A group of KindleBoards members held a Kindle meet-up in the D.C. area today. By all accounts this gathering – the first of its kind from our forums – was a great success!
As you can see from the pictures, our accessories board was well-represented at this meet-up. There were eight Kindles there, an even split [...]

With over one thousand posts every day, our forums provide a rich field of Kindle-related content and conversation.
Here’s what’s abuzz in our various boards right now:
Koolmnbv did an inadvertent water-resistance test when her Kindle had a close encounter with a spilled glass of iced tea. We shared the joy with several new Kindle owners. ElLector [...]

On Tuesday, March 24th at 9:22 pm (EDT), member number 3000 joined Kindleboards. farmshopdad was greeted with an ongoing celebration, as many of us have been anticipating the arrival of this milestone member for the past week or so. As part of the celebration, farmshopdad will receive a Kindleboards t-shirt as well as a signed [...]

We have a map of our Kindleboards members, where you can place a pin to show your location, and to see where other members are from!
Our Kindleboards members – numbering 2,700 and counting – hail from all over the U.S. and the world. And, at about 1,000 posts per day, they make Kindleboards a lively [...]

Kindleboards member, Kindle owner, and book author Rick R. Reed (who goes by the nickname horrorauthor on Kindleboards) was honored on Saturday, March 7, 2009 when he received the EPPIE award for best GLBT book of the year for his book, Orientation. There were seven finalists in the category; I am familiar with the titles [...]

Kindleboards members and Kindle owners don’t need to be convinced of the value of reading ebooks–we’re already converts. But the bonus to all of us during “Read an Ebook Week” is the number of free books that are available during the week to support the cause. Whether you like science fiction, romance, mysteries or non-fiction, [...]

Join us tonight at 9 PM Eastern for a live chat about Charlaine Harris’ Living Dead in Dallas. This chat, hosted by our very own Robin, brings our book club members together as well as any drop-ins.
Living Dead in Dallas is the second in the Southern Vampire mystery series.
Join the discussions tonight in our Kindleboards [...]