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My mother got herself a K2 earlier this year. When she asked what I (and my family) wanted for Christmas I suggested a Kindle. She ordered 6 kindles, 3 3G - 1 for her, and my 2 college age children (they will travel more), and 3 WiFi - 1 for me, my husband and my sister. She also got each of us a case and an Amazon gift card. I was overwhelmed by her generosity. It was amazingly quiet after everyone had opened their gifts and started browsing and reading their choice of free book.
I and my husband were both skeptical of e-readers and how much we would enjoy reading from the kindle, but it has totally won me over. Now that I am back at home, I have downloaded Calibre and KCM and getting all my new books organized. I like the ability to share content with the whole family by registering all the kindles to one account.
I also showed the kindle to my father-in-law who was a big reader until he started to lose his vision. He can now only read large print books with a magnifier, but was able to read from the larger fonts on the kindle, plus use the text to speech option. My in-laws are very much technophobes (they don't have a computer of any kind), but the kindle was easy enough for him to use that he may just get one for himself.
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