The people I have talked to say the advertising is not annoying at all. Apparently the ads show up as a small strip at the bottom while your library or on the home screen and not while reading books themselves. The screensaver is also where ads show up: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-18438_7-20059481-82.html
Kindles are the best thing around for reading books, hands-down. But they are not very good for reading magazines or PDFs or surfing the web, and of course they don't have much for apps. The Kindle Fire is sort of a middle of the road device that does various types of reading, surfing, and gaming pretty well but not great, and the iPad does everything very well but costs twice as much. --------- Brian On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Bobby Heid <[email protected]> wrote: > My wife has a Kindle 2 ( I think it is 2) 3G. She reads on it a lot. She > seems to like it pretty good for reading books. > > Bobby > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Winterlight > Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 7:43 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [H] Kindle > > I am thinking about getting a cheap Kindle for reading books. At first, I > was thinking about getting a Kindle Fire but where I live I can never find > a > hot spot. Very few business provide them, and even that small number has > declined over time. I think the Kindle Fire is a great value but I would > only be able to use it online in my house, and from playing around with > them at the local OfficeMax, I found the cheaper monochrome Kindles easier > to read for some reason. I found Kindle screen amazingly good but something > about a backlit display doesn't lend it self to book reading... at least > for > me. > > So I have a change of plan, and I am thinking about getting the 80 dollar > Kindle 2. For 80 dollars you have to put up with an advertising screen > saver > and RSS Feed. For 109 no advertising. Can anybody who uses one tell me how > annoying the advertising is.. or maybe it is innocuous. Any feedback on > this, or Kindle use in general would be appreciated. > > > >
