Do you have trouble reading small print?

The Kindle has six font sizes that you can adjust to your preference. Every book in your collection can be a large print book, so your reading doesn’t have to be limited to the small selection of large print books found in libraries and bookstores.

With the push of a button on the Kindle, you can help eliminate eye strain and make reading a more enjoyable experience.

Do you want to save money on books?

Amazon typically prices best sellers and new releases at $9.99. Older titles are frequently priced even lower. Compare this to the price of a hardcover new release at $25-$30 and you can see how fast the savings can add up. If, for example, you buy four books a month, by switching to the Kindle you can save around $60 a month or $720 a year. If you buy just one book a month for the Kindle instead of a print book, you will have practically save enough to buy another Kindle! When you add magazines and newspapers into the mix the savings increase even more. If reading is at all a part of your regular routine, the Kindle is guaranteed to be a good financial investment.

Do you not have room for a large book and collection and want to save space in your home?

The Kindle stores up to 1,500 books, and the Kindle DX tops that, with the capacity to store 3,500 books. Stretch 3,500 books out in a row and it would cover about a half mile, give or take a War and Peace or two. Not many people have the shelving space for a half mile of books in their home. With the Kindle all your books are in one place. No more sorting through boxes or asking yourself where you left that book you were reading the other day. Also, every you book you buy from the Kindle Store remains available in your Kindle library at Amazon.com. If you manage to meet your 1,500 book maximum, you can remove books from your Kindle and wirelessly re-download them from your library if you want to read them at a later date.

Do you want to choose from a huge selection of books, with the opportunity to own thousands of free titles?

The Kindle Store alone has over 450,000 to choose from. In addition to this stockpile of books, you can download titles from a number of other different places such as Project Gutenburg, the World Public Library, and Mobipocket. Every day more and more content is added to the web—enough information to keep anyone occupied for several lifetimes. As a bonus, a lot of the content available is free. Free books are typically those that are no longer under copyright, but this includes classics like
Pride and Prejudice, Treasure Island, and Crime and Punishment. You can build an entire collection of classics at absolutely no cost!

Do you travel frequently and don’t have the room in your luggage for many books?

Baggage weight limits these days usually top out at around 50 pounds, which doesn’t leave much room for the four books you wanted to read while lounging on the beach with a cocktail in hand. With the Kindle, you can bring your entire book collection, all the magazines you need to catch up on and even your work documents, if you must, all in one handy device. No more need to worry about space and weight restrictions. If you happen to need a new book while you’re on the road, you can download the title you want in over 100 countries and receive it within 60 seconds.

Do you want to be able to read the same book on multiple devices?

Amazon offers free apps for the iPhone and the PC that allow you to read content in whatever way suits you at a particular moment. Say you start reading the latest Dan Brown book on iPhone while riding the train home from work. Amazon’s Whispersync technology allows you to then pick up your Kindle when you get settled on your couch at home and start right back up at Cliffhanger No. 36 where you left off.

Do you want an easy way to make notes and mark important places in the text you’re reading?

A highlighter is not always at hand when you need one. The Kindle, however, comes equipped with its own digital highlighter, so you can easily make a note of key passages you want to remember and bookmark pages you want to return to. The Kindle also eliminates the practice, so hated by librarians, of dog-earing pages to mark your place. The Kindle automatically goes to the last page you read, whether it was on your PC, iPhone, or Kindle. Finally, with the Kindle there is no longer the need to scribble undecipherable notes in the margin. The Kindle has a full QWERTY keyboard, so you can easily add notes to the text.

Do you want an easy way to search both for the book you’re looking for and within the text of a particular book?

The Find option is quite a handy feature in Microsoft Word, and the Kindle has now brought this functionality to books. Maybe you have a bet with a friend on the number of times Freud uses the words id, ego, and superego in his writing. You can collect your $5 within minutes. Perhaps more practically, you can search for the first appearance of a character in a novel or find every book in your Kindle library that contains a specific term. If you’re interested in say ‘the history of ping-pong,’ you can also extend your search to the Kindle Store so you can find all available books on the subject. You can also utilize Kindle’s web browser to expand your search using Google or Wikipedia.

Do you want the option to hear the text spoken like an audio book?

Remember the days when you had to buy an audio book separately from a printed book? Kindle makes this idea seem antiquated, as its new Text-to-Speech feature allows virtually any book, magazine, newspaper or blog you download to be read to you, provided the rights holder has granted permission. You even can even dictate the speed the text is read and choose between a male and female voice! Say you’re deep in the middle of a great book but you have to run to a doctor’s appointment. You can switch to listening as you drive to your appointment, then switch back to reading as you endure the inevitable wait in the doctor’s office. As the text is read, the pages turn on the Kindle, so your spot will always be saved.

Do you want to eliminate the need for your printer?

The Kindle can function as a portable file cabinet if you want to take your work with you when you’re on the go. Each Kindle comes with a unique e-mail address to which you, and anyone you authorize, can send Word, PDF documents, and pictures using Whispernet. Allowable formats currently include unprotected Microsoft Word (DOC, DOCX), PDF, HTML, TXT, RTF, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, PRC and MOBI files. With this service, a small fee is charged based on file size, although it is free if you transfer documents via USB.

Do you want your newspaper delivered not just to your front door, but directly into your hands?

Ever wish your newspaper could grow legs and walk to your front door when it’s a freezing Sunday morning and your paper landed in a snowbank at the end of the driveway? The Kindle allows you to stay warm and comfy in your robe with a cup of coffee in hand by delivering your paper wirelessly before it has even hit the newsstands. It’s easy to quickly browse through the paper with the Kindle’s 5-way controller, so if you want the latest sports scores, you can find them with no hassle. You can also clip and save any articles you find of interest, so you can find them in an instant when, for example, you’re telling a friend about that great new restaurant you just read a review on, but just can’t remember the name…

Do you want to sample a book before you buy it?

Sometimes a title or a cover is so catching that you’ll buy without knowing anything else about the book, but more often than not, you want to know more about a book if you’re going to devote hours of your life to reading it. With the Kindle, you can read the beginning of a book for free. This is a great way to get a taste of the author’s style and to figure out if you want to know more about the characters in a novel or the author’s take on the Iraq War or a certain author’s investment strategies. If you want to keep reading, you can download the full text of the book with a simple click on your Kindle and it will be delivered wirelessly within a minute.