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Old 09-04-2010, 05:27 PM   #4
fjtorres
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Oh, you can surf with the Kindle. It's just that eink is not the best way of displaying web pages.
What calibre can do for you is automatically download web content, format it as ebooks, and then send it wirelessly to your reader.

Now, if you're going to buy ebooks from amazon, you just put the Kindle 3 WiFi at the top of your list. (You did say you wanted to read outdoors, right? That pretty much excludes the iPad.)

Your alternative choices are to buy content on Kindle for PC and then remove DRM to be able to use it on an alternate reader that supports DRM-free Mobipocket ebooks, or to give up on outdoors reading.

But for outdoors reading *and* buying Kindle ebooks, you either need a pricey tablet PC with outdoors-readable screen or a Kindle eink reader. (Or you need to learn how to strip DRM.)

Just be aware that the Kindles don't open ePub-formatted ebooks natively.
DRM-free ePubs can be converted with Calibre, hence the suggestion you become familiar with it.

Kindles do natively read DRM-free Mobipocket format ebooks so you can also get ebooks from non-Amazon publishers/bookstores that support it (Baen Webscriptions, for one) and pdf files.

So your next decision is whether you can live in the Kindle ecosystem or you prefer to strip DRM and use a non-Kindle reader.

Not that hard, is it?

Have fun!
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