What did she buy for you?

I have so far bought 'the Painted Man'.

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Also - Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan.

A man with warm hands, apparently .

so, i want a kindle. Should i fork out the extra for the 3g model?

Pretty sure none of the Morgan books are on Kindle.

Yes.

Personally, I would say no. Just not necessary in my view, unless you had a job where you were constantly travelling and that, and always wanted to be downloading books every day or something, and couldn't guarantee being near a wireless connection.

so what can you actually do on the 3g? Is it just buy books?

/places bet

It has a web browser of sorts. Enough to use google mail and the like.

I like having it available, simply for emergency use and the like, although you wouldn't want to use it as a matter of course.

The way I see it is that in a year's time if you go on holiday or somewhere and have your Kindle there might come a time you'd regret not having the 3G. On the other hand you aren't going to miss the extra money by then.

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To be honest that's not a big deal, main drawbacks are the small size, mono reproduction, and fiddly cursor operation. Still good if you need it though!

Personally, I'd have preferred this wasn't there and it was £20 cheaper or something.

Well, it's basically free to add - there's no required extra hardware to support it and they'd already written/ported[1] a HTML rendering engine for the on-device book store.

[1] Kindle 1 and 2 are a custom engine, Kindle 3 is WebKit

I have so far bought 'the Painted Man'.

The painted Man is pretty bloody good, isn't it?

Erm, what's this '51 highlighters' business with the underlined text?

Erm, what's this '51 highlighters' business with the underlined text?

Now if they could just sort out the ability to give books as gifts.

And 'UR FUNCTIONS'?

It's slightly heavier than I was expecting but then there was a lot of it's lighter than a ghost's fart hype going on.

I fell for the hype and almost seriously expected it to be so light it would more or less float on its own air current or something. As as result, finding it actually heavy in use, I was mildly disappointed.

In reality, I suppose it's exactly the same as holding an actual book, so it's absolutely fine, obviously, but there is no way I would describe the Kindle as "light".

I would never try to put someone off buying one - they're fantastic, and they do exactly what they need to do, and very well.

The sequel is equally as good, can't wait for the third

I fell for the hype and almost seriously expected it to be so light it would more or less float on its own air current or something. As as result, finding it actually heavy in use, I was mildly disappointed.

In reality, I suppose it's exactly the same as holding an actual book, so it's absolutely fine, obviously, but there is no way I would describe the Kindle as "light".

I would never try to put someone off buying one - they're fantastic, and they do exactly what they need to do, and very well.