Greetings friends! Or as we learners of Chinese say: Ni Hao! 你好！
I'm an English guy living and working in China, and I just bought a Kindle DX! Yeah, really! I bought it on Taobao, (that's like the Chinese version of Ebay,) from a company in Beijing. I heard they were selling plenty of them.
I never had an ebook reader before and I love it. I wanted to buy the Kindle 2, but the only way to get it in China was to have a friend in the US buy it for you and smuggle it in a suitcase or something, and I don't have any friends like that, so I never got it.
So when I first heard about the Kindle DX and how Amazon were willing to "ship to China" I was so pleased and made up my mind to get one. It's a great thing and I really like reading with it. (Getting new and quality reading material in English here is no picnic, so something like this is just a gift from the gods.)
Only trouble is... maybe Amazon will ship it to China, but they won't support it here! Can't use Whispernet, can't shop at the 'Kindle store', can't upload documents for conversion, can't use the experimental web browser, etc, etc. I did get the nice welcome message letter on it though, wasn't that nice of them!
Anyway greetings everyone, and if folk could give me some suggestions re. where to go to purchase/acquire ebooks and be able to download them so I can put them on my Kindle with the USB cord, I'd be really grateful.
I know about Project Gutenberg of course, (awesome!), but I'm longing to read books like
The Inheritors by William Golding, anything by Cormac McCarthy, anything by Carl Sagan, Jared Diamond and so on.
