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Originally Posted by scgf
Hi mgmueller. I am in the UK and am interested in the Amazon Kindle 2 via the eBay route. How do you manage to buy ebooks from the US Amazon store? I managed to download the Kindle app for my iPhone, just to have a look at it, but it wouldn't let me buy anything, presumably because I didn't have a US credit card on file.
Cheers.
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For Sony and iTunes I've been using gift cards, bought from friends and colleagues with US credit cards and sent via email to me.
For Amazon, it's even easier. You can purchase gift cards with your European credit card yourself.
That gift card can be redeemed in your own user account.
But there's one annoyance with Kindle in Europe: You can't change the settings, you have to register your unit via Whispernet once in the US before that.
You manually can enter your serial number into your user account, so all your downloads will be working. You even can send your purchases to your iPhone/iPod touch. But still, this manual process doesn't register your unit.
Unfortunately the internal clock of my Kindle 2 is "1970". So all my read books appear at the end of the list, thus sorting by "date last read" doesn't make any sense at all.
Kindle 2 and Kindle DX don't have any folders, so you'll end up with hundreds of books in a single folder and effectively only can sort by book title and author's name.
As long as I can't access the settings (or use folders), I limit my books to about 200,
whereas I have > 1000 on Sony or iRex.
But still: Kindle 2 absolutely makes my top 3. (For Kindle DX I haven't found the niche yet. Too bulky for traveling, too small for A4 PDFs.)
And I hope, there will be some kind of "hack" for changing the settings without Whispernet.
Rumor has it (
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=51030), there might be a Kindle in UK before Xmas....
Probably another unit, having WLAN. Might be worth waiting...
Question is, why you're interested in Kindle.
Is it the unit itself or the Amazon bookstore?