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Old 09-22-2010, 04:21 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by caleb72 View Post
One of the thing I've noticed now that my sister has a Kindle is that I don't seem to have an option to buy her eBooks as gifts - or at least the option isn't obvious.

For nearly every Christmas and Birthday that I can recall I have bought her at least one book.

I would like to be able to go into Amazon and buy her an eBook - but I can't really do that.

I have Kindle for PC and am waiting for my Kindle WiFi, so I suppose I could just buy for my own account, remove the DRM and then transfer to her device that way. Feels a bit like I'm giving her pirated software for a gift which is a bit odd.

I guess the other thing I can do is purchase an Amazon gift card, but sometimes gift cards feel like the easy option.

Ah - the digital age, making the complicated possible and the simple complicated.

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Caleb
But a gift card gives one the option of free choice or change one's mind before buying a book or something else, without having to pay for it.
I quite like that ' luxury' feel of a giftcard.

edit: you also could buy a cheap 2-nd book on a subject like " how to grow vegetables for my old age" and than put the gift card inside it, as a surprise.
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