Which Kindle for This Senior Citizen You Recommend?

[Seeker]

Howdy all, I have the Kindle 3g.  The Kindle is a fully self contained Book reader.  It was first introduced on the Oprah show about 3 years ago.  The Kindle can hold about 1500 E-books and Magazines.  From the Amazon website you can down load thousands of books.  Some of which are free.  What I like is the text to speech function.  It can read to you.  There are many other great features.

As to which one I would recommend you buy.  It would be the 3g model.  It is small light weight.  You can change the font size easily.  The cost is about $139.00.  You can buy them at several different stores now.

Merry Christmas to all
Seeker     

[Mudpup]

My Sony one was like that as well, had ebook reader and audio book , different font style etc. but even large font didn't alter the fact that the contrast wasn't sharp enough. I'm still going to go with an Ipad. When you said it reads to you did you mean it can use Audio books? or did you mean it can actually read and ebook back to you as well? ones that aren't an audio book already?

[Seeker]

That is correct.  However some of the books will have the text to speech fucntion disabled.  Amazon does tell you if the book does have the function disabled.

Seeker

[Mudpup]

That is very interesting Seeker, they seem to have their act together as far as that stuff is concerned. It just really bugs me that they could make this technology and not even add a back light. I know now some have come out with the color ones which would probably solve the problem.. I'm still going to hold out for the Ipad now though because I like that I can do everything else on it as well.  I have an Itouch so I'm familiar with IPad but Ipad does many more things as well. in the mean time I do have a couple of audio books on my I touch, but ebooks the print is too small and you have to zoom it in then scroll across the screen to read the rest. I think not lol.  thank you for clarifying about the Kindle though.

[Navigator]

I have the regular Kindle (had it for several years now) and I find it is fine.  The only problem I have with it is that it is not compatible with the e-books at the library. It is also not compatible with the new Google Books. (which is a lesser thing for the moment) .   I have been thinking about getting something that is library compatible so that I do not have to buy everything and I think the Google books site is also going to have free books in the future as well.

They (google) obviously have a "thing" against Amazon. 

In any event if library compatibility is not an issue the Kindle is the one.  I suppose if I were to buy one now I would get the 3G. 

[gsmraxe]

for all you ebook people out there, there is a wonderful book converter/maintainer called Calibre.  Just google Calibre ( I know we can't post links) and get it.  Works on Windows, MAC and Linux.  It will convert most formats to whatever you need, including html, mobi, ebook, rtf (doc is the only thing I can't seem to convert)...

Best of all, it's free software (if it's free, it's for me!)

[tracyj]

If you want a back lit screen the Ipad is the best choice.   I like my Sony, but that's because I like the size and I find back lit screens a bit of a strain on my eyes.

The Calibre e-book library software is fantastic for organising your books (I've read over 100 since January I obviously have too much time on my hands  ).  It only converts documents that are not DRM protected, so make sure you by the right format to begin with!

Tracy