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Originally Posted by booknut
First, welcome back! And I hope the pain is bearable. I know knee surgery, hip replacement, and similar surgery can go really smooth for some people and cause others to think "why did I ever do this"!
Second, my eyes are old (well, the rest of me is old too) and I am considering the new Kindle simply for the better screen. I already had my mouse pointer on the order button and then decided to read the legal stuff for chuckles, and the way I understand it, Amazon reserves the right to check what you have on your Kindle when you connect with their bookstore via wifi. That is completely unacceptable! So, you either never use your Kindle with Amazon's bookstore or you consent on being snooped on and I guess this would result in a barrage of advertising depending on what you read. Anybody out there that can correct me on this?
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Dear Booknut:
Every time I even start to rant and rave about the Kindle they yell at me. I am NOT supposed to say anything negative about my competition. This seems peculiar as I cannot find much GOOD to say about them.
What I can say is I am back and the knee functions well. The pain for the first 48 hours was worse than I could have possibly imagined! So bad that without my wife I could not have gotten out of bed to stand, made the restroom, or tolerated it. THAT is some mean pain!! It was constant and NO position lessened it. There simply was no escaping it. Pain meds had maybe a 10% effect... but pretty much you just lay in agony wanting a bullet to put you out of the misery. My God... can women suffer even worse when giving birth?? I have a high threshold for pain thanks to Shiatzu teachings but I could not block any of this.
I have NOT seen the screen on the Wi-Fi Kindle yet. I do not understand WHY they say it is better. I only know that the new Astak EZ Reader PLUS is the same 6 inch size, is a lot lighter, has 16 level gray scale, and sports the Epson high-speed controller and 400 MHz processor with a 64MB SD-RAM. AND... we do not snoop into your privacy. I wish I could really give you a full comparison but I do not have enough to go on yet!
Thank you!!