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Originally Posted by PsyDocJoanne
I agree that they're unlikely to hit Kindle owners with a fee specifically to access and download from Amazon's ebook catalog...but I think usages outside of that and Wikipedia are likely to be subject to a charge in the future.
And generally speaking, I think college kids are likely to use the access for other things...there are already a ton of message board posts out there encouraging Kindle users to use Whispernet for all kinds of things, like gmail.
I think Amazon should have considered limiting internet access to just Amazon.com, right from the get go. This way, there would be no (or fewer) unhappy campers later.
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Maybe, for myself I've found that gmail access is a lot faster on my cell phone, so the only time I use my internet access on my Kindle is to download books. I would estimate that my usage now is about 10 minutes a month.
I used it a lot for the first two weeks or so, but really, that was more of a "gee whiz" experience. The Kindle simply is not built to be a good web browsing device, and I didn't buy it for that reason. Anyone who did would have to be completely out of their tiny minds. The thing it was made to do (and which it does beautifully) is to read eformat books.