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Originally Posted by mathui
I'm Mat, and I have been looking at this ereader for a rather long time now. I have decided to buy one, and my first choice would be the Kindle, but unfortunately it is not available in Europe (I am Dutch). And i am not aware of any plans of Amazon to introduce it over here.
mat
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Welcome first of all.
Secondly... I can't tell you Amazons plans. But, if you want a Kindle there are ways. Find someone in the US to buy one for you, and ship it to you. Or, buy one on eBay. Although, with the current shipping shortage I'd expect the eBay prices are carrying a bit of a premium. Unless you find a used one. People don't see to want those as much.
Once you buy one your best bet is to create a new amazon.com account and register your kindle to it. Then, but Gift Cards on your Dutch account, and apply them to your US account. (If you have a non-US credit card attached to your Amazon account it will not let you buy Kindle books.)
Then again, of course you don't NEED to buy Kindle books. You can get mobipocket ebooks anywhere and remove the DRM. It takes about 1 minutes to do... just a quick script to run after you d/l the book.
BOb