Amazon Kindle

I performed this test yesterday as it happened- reading Quantum Thief on my Nexus One/Kindle.
Train journey to Canterbury- Nexus One from full, off charge at 07.15 was totally dead by 12.45.
The Kindle's battery is meant to be rather better than half a day.

I use Aldiko mostly with white text on black and screen brightness down. The longest I've used it though is an hour's Tube journey so I'm not sure how long you could get out of it.
The point is I'd have a phone no matter what, whereas this would be another tech item I'd have to carry around.

I didn't realise that Ladybird and Mills & Boon had such large ranges.

Don't forget that Enid Blyton finished a 'book' about every forty seconds.

Sweet mother of pearl.

On most affiliate links LFGSS earns pennies. When you buy a chainring from Chain Reaction after clicking on a link on here, the forum gets a couple of pennies.

But for a Kindle ordered as a result of a direct link as above... apparently LFGSS will earn 20% of the cost of the Kindle. Basically... £30 !

I am stunned.

If anyone is in the market for a Kindle, please click the link above to purchase ;)

NOW you tell me.

I didn't know!

No-one ever really clicks on Amazon links from LFGSS so I never see what the rates are. Bike industry margins are so tight that their clickthrus are worth very little. But Amazon Kindle direct links are apparently worth a bomb.

In fact... we should create a "Found on Amazon" thread for people to do their Christmas shopping. I'm truly stunned.

How about the Kindle edition books?

I'm probably going to be purchasing a lot of them very soon.

Can you see what rate you would get from this for example?

Surface Detail eBook: Iain M. Banks: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

Yeah the Amazon affliate program still has some crazy returns on certain items. Amazon can afford to give away a bigger slice on the Kindle because they hope the will make it up on the e-books they sell through the store. Lets see how their Android store works out. Phone companies have toyed with making their own AppStore competitor, but have realised they can't pull it off. Amazon has the technical know how to actually pull it off, online stores are their business after all.

I'm gonna order a Kindle 3 soon as well, will use the link obviously.

Yup, we'll get affiliate fees for everything. However most items only offer 5% (bike industry averages closer to 2.7%). The Kindle is different because it's their item and they want to shift lots of it. Kindle books may also do well, I'll look it up.

Apparently it's 4% > 8.5% depending on the book and the Amazon margins.

Basically, even though LFGSS earns good money from thin margins of bike shops, the Amazon rates kick-ass and it's a shame they don't sell lots of nice bike gear ;)

Sweet mother of pearl.

On most affiliate links LFGSS earns pennies. When you buy a chainring from Chain Reaction after clicking on a link on here, the forum gets a couple of pennies.

But for a Kindle ordered as a result of a direct link as above... apparently LFGSS will earn 20% of the cost of the Kindle. Basically... £30 !

I am stunned.

If anyone is in the market for a Kindle, please click the link above to purchase ;)

So does this mean the server finally owes me a beer?

;)

Yup

Consider this the donation to the forum then ... click

It can't read epubs, which may or may not be annoying, no experience yet. But you can convert them to something it can read. It does read PDFs. The deleting thing has been apologized for, was illegal, and Amazon have stated quite clearly that it won't happen again (so they say).

Which is the most open ebook reader? The Kindle looks to b DRMd and gives Amazon the ability to delete your books at will.
What are people's experiences of the Nook or Sony reader?

After the shitstorm last time they said that wouldn't happen again. EDIT: What whore-ratio said.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Kindle#Remote_content_removal

VB, if you give me £30 I'll buy a Kindle through here. Do we have a deal?

No.

My time is valuable and there's no point of me being in the equation if LFGSS isn't getting the money.

As to what my time is worth and whether we can negotiate a halfway point... my time is worth roughly £30 for however long it takes to perform the transaction for you.

@Velocio can you post an affliate link for the Wifi Kindle too please, I don't want 3G.

Just cut 'n' paste an Amazon page into here... it automatically makes it a affiliate link.

But here you are:
Kindle Wireless Reading Device, Wi-Fi, 6" Display, Graphite - Latest Generation: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

No.
My time is valuable and there's no point of me being in the equation if LFGSS isn't getting the money.
As to what my time is worth and whether we can negotiate a halfway point... my time is worth roughly £30 for however long it takes to perform the transaction for you.

Okay, you pay the £120 and I'll pay the £30. There you go. Sorted.
You have my address.

Deal ;)

My experiences so far with the Kindle 3.
It has a superb screen, and its real easy on the eyes.
Reading PDFs in landscape is bearable, but still a bit of a squeeze. Zooming and panning is a bit slow too. You cant also use the chapter up/down buttons with PDFs and you cant hyperlink through the Table Of Contents. PDFs are more geared for sequential reading or alternatively flicking to bookmarks.
I love the ability to email docs to your kindle address and it syncing up through wifi/3G.
You can also convert PDFs and Word Docs to AZW by emailing you @free.kindle.com email address with the subject "convert".
Battery life is not a worry.
It can read AZW docs to you, if you like listening to Stephen Hawkins read to you.

I have a lot of PDFs on my PC, and cant read for long on an LCD screen. So the kindle makes accessing them instantly a bonus. But for me the benefits of having all my manuals & docs in one readable device, are worth the backup time (should I lose it).

Velocio, shame you didnt tell us about the discount earlier. Might be worth starting another thread listing sites/products that LFGSS gets a kickback on.

Velocio, shame you didnt tell us about the discount earlier. Might be worth starting another thread listing sites/products that LFGSS gets a kickback on.

You mean like this one:
http://www.lfgss.com/thread52983.html

Cool, I buy from all of these except hargroves.

What about cases has anyone got any recommendations?

That's why I put on them on the bottom of the list ;)