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Originally Posted by bashfulbanshee
Nah, I don't use the web browser on the Kindle. It's slow-going, clunky controls, and specifically designed to say "Hey, you DO have wifi. Now go back to the Kindle store!" My gmail doesn't even load properly on it.
I use Instapaper for reading stuff offline. I take public transit several hours a day, and it's my main way of reading up on the news. So the night before, I just spend 12 minutes clicking on each worthwhile headline across various sites and/or good looking free short stories on places like Strange Horizons and other SF magazines, save it to Instapaper, and the next day--Instapaper sends it all as a periodical to the Kindle. Kind of like a custom-made newspaper. Not to be a walking advert, but, it is a darn good program. It ain't gonna break the NY Times subscription barrier, but it makes snacking on the free content across the board a lot easier.
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Snap. I never actually turn the wifi off on my kindle mainly because of instapaper and also Calibre Recipes. I have Calibre set to download my "newspapers" every morning at 7 and email them to my Kindle so I can sit and read through them with my morning coffee.
No wifi would definitely be a deal breaker, but I don't need 3G because I can just tether my Kindle to my Android mobile and use that for a hotspot for when we go away on holiday.