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Pleas suggest an electronic reader for a gift?

Published in July 14th, 2009

I am considering buying an electronic reader for my mother … i want to know the following:

1) What are a couple of the lowest cost but good quality versions? (and where do I buy them)
2) Do they come with any books, or is each title a seperate cost .. ?
3) How much in general are books for these things?
4) How does a person download a book? is it easy?
5) How many books can they hold?

Thank you … any suggestions would be appreciated

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Pauline A said, in July 14th, 2009 at 6:23 pm

The best electronic reader is the Kindle 2. Right now you can still get it delivered by Friday as gift for mother’s day:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00154JDAI?ie=UTF8&tag=moreinfo-po-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00154JDAI

To answer your other questions, it doesn’t come with any books. However, Amazon does provide over 7000 books for free that you can get to the Kindle device. You can check the price of bestsellers too, most of them cost under $10 and they are cheaper than actual books:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26rs%3D154606011%26sort%3D-edition-sales-velocity%26ref%255F%3Dsr%255Fst%26qid%3D1236505696%26rh%3Dn%253A154606011%26page%3D1&tag=moreinfo-po-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957

The Kindle 2 can hold up to 1500 books inside it. In case you ever have chance to get over this limit, Amazon keeps record for all the books you’ve purchased and you can redownload any books you’ve purchased any time you want to. Downloading books on the Kindle device is very easy, and it is very convenient that I don’t need to go to bookstore and can just buy books and download with the device.

It costs quite a lot, but I’ve finally made my decision after reading some reviews. Here are some good and precise reviews for you to check:

http://www.speedreaderxreview.com/is-kindle-2-worth-the-price
http://www.speedreaderxreview.com/amazon-kindle-20-review-speed-readers-complete-thoughts-on-this-hot-new-device

In case you want to look into other electronic readers, the most popular alternative is the Sony Reader. But I think the Kindle 2 is much better. Below is a good comparison of the Kindle 2 and the Sony Reader:

http://www.speedreaderxreview.com/kindle-2-0-vs-sony-reader-prs-700bc-comparison

Hope that helps.