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Books that you can get for the kindle today

The Kindle Store currently carries more than 145,000 books plus newspapers, magazines, and blogs. All titles are wirelessly delivered right to your Kindle for free.

The Kindle Store offers more than 99 of 112 books currently found on the New York Times® Best Seller list and we're adding more all the time. New York Times Best Sellers are $9.99

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Below are some of these best-sellers

• What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception
• The Dangerous Days of Daniel X
• Tribute
• The Post-American World
• Fleeced

Amazon Kindle Reviews 

• I would change my rating to 5 stars based on how much I love my Kindle. I am reading on it about 2 hours or more per day. My reading includes a newspaper, some magazines, blogs, books from the Kindle store and some classics. I also have sent myself several pdf documents that I am glad to have available away from my PC. The ability to make use of short bursts of time for reading is amazing. I am very pleased with how much more reading is a part of my busy life now.
  
  I have ordered multiple Kindles to use in our family. We easily share books using the Content Manager. I do wish that subscriptions could also be shared, but it has not been a big issue in our family because of the different reading habits of the Kindle users.
  
  The Sample book feature is wonderful. I have tried many books and purchased a few based on these samples. There were differences in the various samples. Some samples gave me a couple of chapters and really drew me into the book while a few samples were little more than the table of contents and a few pages. The Save for Later feature that is available when browsing the Kindle store has been very useful as a wishlist. An improvement would be to have this list available on my PC when browsing the Amazon site.
  
  One continuing annoyance is the shorter battery life I get when I am using the wireless feature. When I browse the Kindle store or use Wikipedia, the battery life seems to go down in a very short time. When I am strictly reading though the battery life is a couple of days.
  
  Now that I have many more books and materials on my Kindle, I have noticed shortcomings in the organization methods. I am hoping for a software upgrade to take care of this problem. Currently, I sort my available materials by "Most Recent" and this keeps my current reading projects at the top of the list.
  
  Overall, the Kindle has been life-changing for me and even some issues that originally bothered me or continue to bother me do not take away from the fact that I have a library of material with me in a wonderfully convenient format - definitely a 5 star e-book reader.
• Jessie Sackler says:
  Thanks for this review. It answered my major concern about Kindle: yes, you would shell out $400 (gimme a break--399 = 400!), and THEN you would pay for content. Several times I've heard/read people saying, positively, that this is a no-brainer. Yup, it's a no-brainer--negatively. I recognize that it's a terrific convenience for travel. I can also see that it would begin to eliminate problems caused by owning too many books. Neither advantage makes it worth the double charge, and the second problem would be minimized by relying on my local public library.
• HeeNam Yumako says:
  "For things like textbooks and other books where I want a "real" copy of the book, I would like to see a purchase option that includes a Kindle version for almost nothing if I am purchasing the title in book form." This is one of the best suggestions I have read from a Beta-tester.
  
  It should be an easy thing for Amazon to implement. I think it will rarely be used, but it will be a positive way for some people to transition and for others to use their Kindle with color graphic intense books (I am a physician and can well imagine some of my books wouldn't translate well to black and white).
• B. Williams says:
  I like your suggestion about the dual format option for textbooks. I had my own suggestion that could possibly be combined with yours, and that's the edition upgrade service I mention in my review. I've also suggested parental control features, not to mention password protection for Kindle Store purchases. If I were a parent, I wouldn't want my kids getting a hold of it and making a ton of purchases from the store, given that my Amazon account is linked to my bank account... or worse, a thief getting a hold of it and making said purchases.
• By geek squad central (NJ, USA)
  
  This was a good effort by Amazon, but their lack of experience in hardware design shows through very clearly.
  
  Major flaws include:
  
  1. The buttons are misplaced and extremely easy to hit by accident causing your page to flip unexpectedly. Inexplicably, the NEXT PAGE button on the left side is only 1/3 the size of the PREV PAGE button, when in fact you want to go to the next page 99.9% of the time. On the right side, the NEXT PAGE button is properly sized, but it consumes nearly the entire right side of the device, all the way to the underside of the unit, making it annoyingly easy to accidentally bump and click. This is something I am certain Amazon will fix in their next version, so you should wait.
  
  2. Page turns are slow. I clocked nearly 2 full seconds. This makes the accidental click even more annoying since it takes you a while to page back to where you're supposed to be. I have seen prototype e-ink displays where the page turn is far faster than this, meaning: you should wait for version 2.0.
  
  3. Page turns have an annoying black flash. Some people report they get used to it, but it's definitely a turn-off for me. I have seen other e-ink device prototypes that do not have this flash, so waiting for version 2.0 might be a good idea.
  
  4. The EVDO cost model is not fully figured out yet. This is evident in their "experimental" browser which the documentation says is "free for the time being". I.e., there are potentially hidden costs that are not know at this time. Again, this means you should wait. Perhaps in version 2 they will go with WiFi which really would have been a better choice since it works in Europe and has no fees or costs associated with it.
  
  5. The Price. $400 would be fine if this were perfect, but with all those flaws you can expect Amazon to be putting this thing on the bargain shelf in a few months. You'll feel stupid paying $400 for a device with these flaws when a new device with everything fixed up is most likely around the corner and probably at a much lower price. Again, all the evidence says: BE PATIENT and wait for version 2.
  
  All in all, a good try, there are some nice things about this attempt. But the price, the poor ergonomics of the button layout, and stuff that is just plain unknown about possible hidden costs for using some features means that unless you're willing to flush $400 down the drain you are better off waiting for the next version of this product.
  
  Good things, or at least better things, come to those who wait.
• By Sherry Brown (Moreno Valley, Ca USA) - See all my reviews
  
  Love it!, easy to use, one of the best features is the font choices. It's easy on the eyes, I have arthritis in both hands so this is easy to hold. Way to easy to get into trouble in the shop kindle store, have to put myself on a budget,you don't need a computer or go to the mall, you just need a thumb to push a button to buy a book!I recently went on a camping trip and instead of a whole bag of books, all I took was my Kindle. The savings on book prices, Kindle will pay for itself in notime
• By Dale Pajak "bookaholic" (New Jersey) -
  
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  I wasn't sure how I would like not having a book in my hand, and now I can't imagine turning actual pages! I will still buy some books from my favorite authors(I am a collector after all) but I will have the majority of my collection on file. Love it!!!!!
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