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Originally Posted by wormturns
Do I really need to open an account with amazon in order to have all the features activated on this thing, especially interested in the "collections" feature?
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Yep, as far as I know, your Kindle needs to be registered to an account to at least allow you to organise your books in collections.
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Originally Posted by wormturns
Does this require credit card information?
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I don't recall them offering any other option when I registered. Paypal in definitely out. I've heard other users giving addresses not connected to them, or of real-life places in the US but I'm pretty sure Amazon's started to crack down on the practice.
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Originally Posted by wormturns
And as a bad omen, the first book I looked up on amazon that I may want to buy is not available (Fahnestock/MacAfee translation of Les Misérables), oy.
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Les Miserables has given lots of users lots of headaches. Piece of advice: you won't always find what you're looking for, and when you do, depending on where you live, you might come across the geographical restrictions' wall, so get ready to suffer some disappointments now and then.
However, it's not the device's fault
. I've had it for almost a year and I love it. Easy to use, nice screen, easy access to one of the biggest outside-of-the-US ebook store and the support of a numerous Kindle community on the net (and especially here at MR
).
Welcome to the fora!