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well it's going back now - I feel like I'm buying a crippled device. I think I will wait a couple of months till a more european friendly kindle arrives.
A small review for international users:
+Pearl ink screen is awsome for reading, best reader on the market in screen clarity
+excellent contrast and picks up surrounding light easily making a normal lamp efficient.
+Kindle software is mature, stable and runs well. Not many restarts and responds fairly well to keyboard and navigation input (for an eink reader that is)
Some downsides:
- In fw 2.5.5 seems like Amazon intentionally crippled the browser on the KDX (that's what I've been by Amazon support) to english wikipedia and Kindle shop only.
- There's no such thing as free books on Amazon.com or Kindle shop on the device for Global kindle users - they charge you 2 dollars for wireless data transfers.
- I found 4 swedish books in kindle format awz on the internet (there are more but nothing later than 1990's)
- PDF experience still a bit crippled: viewing is limited (portrait,landscape takes of making fonts bigger) zooming is a hit and miss most of the time. There are many basic pdf features missing like content links, highlighting, notetaking, most importantly increasing font sizes wich I miss so much from the native kindle awz format.
- You can't change dictionary (I can't buy a swedish dictionary) converting a dictionary is to big of an effort.
- Limited european kindle content (in my language at least)
Perhaps in the future I'll have my american relative to buy one and ship it oversea to me - I'd like to know if some of the browser, amazon store restrictions goes away.
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