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and it seems the kindle DX can be ordered from Europe too
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I live in Italy and less than a year ago I bought a kindle 1 from a US ebayer, there are serious disadvantages in doing that:
1)I had to pay the import duty and VAT (about 20% of the final price)
2)Shipping costs were relatively high (about 50$)
3)I could not open an amazon account, so I couldn't buy ebooks from the amazon website.
4)whispernet doesn't work in Europe, there is no infrastructure for it.
I was aware of all the above points nonetheless I couldn't resist but surely I would not recommend doing that.