10-06-2008, 04:24 PM | #1 |
Glyph
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Hello, from Athens!
Hi, everyone. I got a Kindle for my birthday in August, and since then I've been in pig heaven... Books in English are expensive here in Greece, and the selection very limited - which made this hungry reader very sad; but now I'm on a book binge and so very happy.
At any rate, I found MobileRead right away and have been lurking for a couple of months. Today I wanted to respond to something... but after signing up and trying to think of clever things to put in my profile, and reading a few of the sticky posts, well hell - I forgot what I wanted to respond to. This is probably representative. *waving, not drowning* |
10-06-2008, 04:30 PM | #2 |
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Greetings from Athens, Georgia! I'm glad you decided to join us. You're on a book binge? That's the best kind of binge, because it adds to your brain, not your waistline.
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10-06-2008, 06:38 PM | #3 | |
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10-06-2008, 06:39 PM | #4 | |
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10-06-2008, 08:19 PM | #5 |
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Hi tazzle and welcome to the Forum.
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10-07-2008, 01:49 AM | #6 |
Glyph
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pilotbob, I have a U.S. credit card (debit card, really) that we bought the Kindle with... But I don't like to use it that much - so we have two accounts at Amazon - my original Kindle account, with the U.S. card, and an account for my husband with our Greek card. From my husband's account we bought a gift certificate for my original (Kindle) account, and you can apply gift certificate money to Kindle books.
Thanks for the welcome, everyone! |
10-07-2008, 01:56 AM | #7 |
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Hi Tazzle,
a warm welcome from Italy ! |
10-07-2008, 09:16 AM | #8 |
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10-07-2008, 11:07 AM | #9 |
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10-07-2008, 11:20 AM | #10 | |
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-------------------------------- Tazzle: welcome to MobileRead. We're so glad you've joined us. I'm sure you'll find that posting you wanted to reply to -- at some point. Be sure to download the MobileRead download guide. While you can't use the cellular connection in the Kindle to download books directly to the device, it's still a wonderful reference to all the MobiPocket format books available for the taking here at MobileRead. Since the guide contains the full description of each book -- well as full as the original uploader provided -- it gives you the opportunity to plan your future downloads even when you aren't using your PC. I also own a Kindle and have found that it is a serious enabler of my reading habit and an even more serious disabler of my finances. Just yesterday I was sitting in the Philadelphia airport and decided that I wanted to read the second book in Charlaine Harris' Southern Vampire Mysteries. And since I was in the USA, I didn't even have to boot my PC. I just turned on the cellular antenna on the Kindle, opened the sample (which I had downloaded to the Kindle some months ago) and clicked the "buy this book" link in the sample. Before I could even exit the sample, I had the complete book on the Kindle. I just *must* exercise more discipline. (yeah ... right ... like that's ever going to happen) |
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10-07-2008, 11:45 AM | #11 | |
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