Miscellaneous
Since January 2010, the Amazon Kindle DX has been available internationally, with this electric book providing 16 tones of grey on a 9.7" screen. If you didn’t previously know that it was possible to take electronic books or magazines with you when on the move, then through this article you will find out everything there is to know! With 4GB of internal memory, you can store up to 3500 different files. There are different electronic books for sale in the proprietary AZW format on the Kindle Store, but in addition to this you can read PDF eBooks, play MP3 files and read personal documents (DOC, HTML, TXT, MOBI, PRC...). Through this review of the Amazon eReader, we will see what lead to this device being such a great success in the United States, and how it has been adapted to a European market. Has the successor to paper books finally arrived?
Getting a book from the Kindle Store
The first way of getting electronic books is to directly order these from the Kindle through its 3G connection from the Kindle Store where more then 400 000 books are online. A large variety of commercial releases are available in the proprietary AZW and AZW1 formats. You can alternatively acquire content from any computer with your web browser. There are Kindle Books across all genres (fiction, science, history…), Kindle Newspapers (La Stampa, The New York Times, Daily Mail…), Kindle Magazine (Newsweek, Time, Fortune, PC Magazine…), and blogs (although this isn’t currently available in Europe). Content is mainly in English for the moment, but you can sort through content based on countries to see what is available in other languages. For example, subscriptions to French newspapers are available, with Le Monde ($27.99 per month) and Les échos ($19.99 per month) allowing you to access the daily release directly on the Kindle DX.
Download and view any PDF eBook
Numerous Internet sites offer eBooks for free or for a fee, with these being available from ebooksgratuits.com, Numilog, Livre pour tous, Webooks, Mobibocket, etc. Full releases can also be found at ABU, the Universal Library, Projet Gutenberg, Athena, Gallica… The Kindle DX natively supports the open PDF format, meaning no conversion is required. You simply need to connect your device via the USB cable and copy any content you wish to read directly to the devices internal memory. Simply drag and drop the content into the corresponding folders for the files to be recognised. The books to be located in Kindle/documents, the music in Kindle/music, audio books in Kindle/audio…
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