An Ebook Reader Review for the Amazon Kindle is right around the corner, the only thing is it is only for the Non-Geeks amongst us. You High Tech people that can string 5 pieces of equipment together and in the end have it run your coffee machine to have coffee ready for you each morning too, just move along, nothing to see here for you.
I am speaking to all the I'd love it if I could just get it to work people, the ones who know they need or want a little tech in their lives but are always afraid it will fail them, no one else just them. I can speak to those people because I am one of those people and honestly my tech hates me. For me, just trying to keep all the software and cords and directions (AKA troubleshooting help) is beyond me or in the end lost or forgotten.
And when I was thinking about buying an Amazon Kindle last year...that haunting thought of more tech failure kept running through my mind. I won't be able to figure out how to use it (believe me all of my more technologically advanced friends are sick of me), I will break it or it will be so hard to figure out I will never actually "Enjoy" reading ever again. Or worst of all, it will sit in the box because I don't want to fail again. I have a scanner that is still brand new in the box from '92.
I should have believed in myself more or should I say I should have believed in the Kindle more. As I have said before, "What was I waiting for?"
Why the Amazon Kindle is a Non-geek's Dream!
1) The Kindle Quick Start Guide - never has been there an easier guide to spell out how to get up and running fast than what Amazon has produced....let's face it no one wants to read the long Kindle Users Guide but if you need it, it is already pre-installed on your Kindle (can't lose that). But who cares because the Quick Start guide is all you'll ever need and even though that comes as paper to lose if I managed to lose it in one day it is easily found on the Amazon website.
2) Set-Up...well this is how Amazon puts it on their website...
"Simple to Use, No Computer Required
Unlike most electronic devices, we wanted to keep Kindle simple. Kindle is wireless and ready to use right out of the box-no setup, no cables, no software to install, no computer required."
...and they were absolutely right!!! I couldn't have said it better myself...the Kindle is the most ready-to-go shiny thing I have ever seen.
3) Books by the Press of a Button.....I can get all my books right off the Kindle....find my car keys when I want the latest Bestseller, who needs to do that? What's really nice is I get to review a few chapter of any book I want before I decide to buy it. That's the way to make me happy.
4) Which Page?.....I don't even have to remember which page I've left off on even if I've started 10 different books...the Kindle remembers which page I was on last and continues from there. How nice is that!
If I said my four year old could set this up...if he could read, I wouldn't be far off.....finally I Love a piece of tech I own, not just because of what it can do for me but for what it won't do to me...cause me stress, frustration and hours of misery while I figure it out!
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