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« Reply #25 on: December 30, 2008, 06:38:55 AM » |
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12 books just waiting there in my virtual library...
1 Ave of Trees Oberon cover waiting on the closet shelf...
1 Iris Decalgirl skin laying under the Oberon...
No Mia, no updated shipping date... *sigh*
Dang it girl, get your fanny home right now! You are gonna be soooo grounded!
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Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before... Mae West
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« Reply #26 on: December 30, 2008, 06:56:36 AM » |
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I actually didn't buy a single book before I received my Kindle. And it was hard, believe me. I got my Kindle as a birthday gift and I had been waiting months!
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Dooterbug
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« Reply #27 on: December 30, 2008, 11:38:38 AM » |
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ok.. just added six more... now at 18...
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Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before... Mae West
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« Reply #28 on: December 30, 2008, 03:50:44 PM » |
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Sorry, but I have a Buy button showing and when I try to purchase, it says I need to register my Kindle first. Hard to do when it is in the mail to me as I type. *sigh* I guess I will have to wait till it arrives to start ordering my books.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of ones soul remains unawakened.
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« Reply #29 on: December 31, 2008, 04:02:49 AM » |
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6 so far. I'm trying not to pre-order too much so it doesn't slow down the whole start-up process. Besides, there are a bunch I think I want but would like to see the samples first.
I ordered 3 free ones and 3 others (including the Kindle FAQ).
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« Reply #30 on: January 10, 2009, 10:49:31 PM » |
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I have 17 books from amazon including about 10 free or under a dollar. I have about 50 from other sources. The longer it takes to get my Kindle, the further behind I get. Sigh.
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« Reply #31 on: January 11, 2009, 08:57:08 AM » |
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So far, I have 10 books and 6 samples queued up, plus around 70 free books from Feedbooks and Manybooks. 3 books were free from Amazon (Charlie Huston), 5 are replacements for my DTBs that were on sale, 1 is a new book that I'd been wanting to read that I found on sale, and the other is Leslie's Amazon Kindle FAQ book (that's the first one I'll read!).
I set up a wish list on Amazon for just Kindle books and added every book I have to that list. For the ones available now for the Kindle, I can sort the list by price ascending and filter on eBooks only, and then I can see which books are on sale. For the books that are not yet available for the Kindle, I can filter my wish list by books only and then check each to see if a Kindle version has been made available (when I was making my wish list, I clicked the "request this book for the Kindle" link for each one).
As you can see from my signature, my Kindle isn't even set to ship until at least February 27 (I really think it'll ship sometime in January though -- gut feeling), so I'm sure I'll have more books queued up by the time it arrives (haven't named it yet -- it'll name itself when I see it).
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« Reply #32 on: January 11, 2009, 09:29:52 AM » |
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Since I didn't know about this board when I ordered Little Gertie, I didn't know I could have books just sitting there waiting for me. So my answer is a big fat zero.
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« Reply #33 on: January 11, 2009, 10:30:29 AM » |
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I've only done 6 free downloads from Amazon, but I do have alot of samples waiting, not sure how many it only shows ten on my delivery status. I don't want to buy a bunch of books and my husband think "this was not a money saving device" before I even get it.
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« Reply #34 on: January 11, 2009, 11:30:06 AM » |
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I've only done 6 free downloads from Amazon, but I do have alot of samples waiting, not sure how many it only shows ten on my delivery status. I don't want to buy a bunch of books and my husband think "this was not a money saving device" before I even get it.
LSbookend
Hi LSbookend, we ordered our Kindles the same day. You will probably get yours first due to your delivery method.  So far I have ordered 20 books from Amazon (Kindle FAQ was first one purchased), no samples, and 260+ books (number of free books is going up daily)from some free sites (ManyBooks, FreeKindle, FeedBooks, Baen Free Library). Some of the free books I have read in the past but many are new-to-me books from authors I have read previously. Some are from authors I have never read but have intended to read. I am planning on putting the downloaded books on an SD card after I see that my Kindle has been shipped. I will wait until the books coming from Amazon have downloaded and indexed (and I have had a chance to play with read it) before turning off my Kindle and putting in the SD card.  Anna |
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« Reply #35 on: January 11, 2009, 04:57:43 PM » |
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Hi LSbookend, we ordered our Kindles the same day. You will probably get yours first due to your delivery method. Anna But when! I hope you get yours soon as well LSbookend |
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« Reply #36 on: January 11, 2009, 05:05:14 PM » |
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I only "bought" a couple of free books because I wanted to test drive my Kindle before buying anything.
I was hooked before I finished my first book.
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« Reply #37 on: January 12, 2009, 09:03:39 AM » |
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But when! I hope you get yours soon as well
LSbookend
Thanks. It will be great when they start shipping again. Maybe it will be after Amazon gets more batteries! They certainly cannot ship the Kindle "batteries not included"! Anna |
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« Reply #38 on: January 12, 2009, 10:22:25 AM » |
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Before I opened my Kindle, I had around 15 books already...lol!
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« Reply #39 on: January 12, 2009, 10:28:18 AM » |
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I received mine as a gift. I had read reviews for the Sony and the Kindle to choose an e-reader. My fiancee saw that I was looking at them and asked if I wanted one for my birthday. I said sure and held off buying anything until after my birthday. I did not know it was coming until my birthday and then there were delivery issues (we were and the delivery address did not match the credit card address). I was not sure how to buy Kindle books because I had not done any research on that aspect. When it arrived, I figured out how to buy the boosk really quickly and had 7 on my Kindle before heading to the airport three hours later.
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« Reply #40 on: January 13, 2009, 07:45:26 AM » |
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I've ordered 9 so far. Seven of them were free, and the other two were from authors I like and the books were less than $4.00 each. I don't know how long it will take to get my Kindle (shipping date ranges from March 19 to April 3 - I ordered December 18) so I figured I'd get these ones before the prices changed. How long would it take for Kindle to download that many books when I first turn it on? Am I better off transferring them to my computer first? If I do transfer them to my computer, can I just "drag and drop" them to my Kindle afterwards?
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« Reply #41 on: January 13, 2009, 08:31:34 AM » |
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I've already bought 1 book, sent a bunch of free samples, plus downloaded a lot of free books.
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