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Hi, janeb. You've come to the right place for advice. I joined this forum a couple of months ago when I was dithering about whether to buy an e-reader. Thanks to the brilliantly helpful community here, I am now the wildly happy owner of a Kindle 3 wifi, and wonder why I ever had doubts about it.
I'm in Australia too. The good news is that there are no extra import/customs duties to pay on your Kindle.
One point to note is that at checkout Amazon offers you the choice of paying in US $ or AU $. Go for US, because their exchange rate is much less favourable than the one you'll get from your credit card (and if you, like me, bank with the greedy ANZ they will still slug you with a 3% levy for an overseas transaction even if it's charged in AU $).
The only hidden cost is the power charge cable: US customers get the power cable as part of the Kindle price, overseas customers don't. When I ordered mine, they were doing a special offer knocking $10 off the power charge cable if you ordered it at the same time, so that was worth doing.
I can't answer your question about which books are available here, because for some quirky reason Amazon define me as a UK customer, even though I've lived in Oz for 5 years. I'm not complaining, though! There isn't an Australia storefront listing only books available here, but someone on this forum told me that if you click on an individual book in the US Kindle store, it will say "not available" if you aren't able to buy it.
I bought the wifi version, not 3G, but I know a woman in Surfers' Paradise who has the 3G and has had no problems with downloading books.
Hope those are simple and direct answers, even if longwinded!
Alison
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