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23 May 2011

Kindle? If anyone's been thinking about buying a Kindle, woot.com has a refurbished one for 90 bucks, today only.

post by: JanetLand at: 09:09 | 10 comments

Who knew I'd have to pay tax on it? (I sound like a tea partier!)

posted by Obscure Reference 23 May | 12:06

I just dragged myself kicking and screaming into the 21st century and ordered a Kindle (from Amazon UK).

posted by Senyar 23 May | 12:47

How fortuitous, I was thinking about this recently. My mother-in-law has one that she uses all the time, and now that I commute by bus, I've been thinking about reading old classics (the Tom Swift series has me intrigued).

Just after I purchased one via Woot, I checked Craigslist: one listed last Friday for $50, but no age noted, and it could be shady.

posted by filthy light thief 23 May | 15:05

This is the exact Kindle I have and I recommend it highly!

posted by leesh 23 May | 15:31

Is there a non-proprietary ebook reader out yet?

posted by aniola 23 May | 17:04

After lugging around boxes of books from the storage units I emptied, I am very seriously interested in any paperless solution...

posted by oneswellfoop 23 May | 19:49

Kindle is shaped like a water bottle?

posted by Splunge 24 May | 06:51

Woot only has the deal for one day, so yesterday it was a kindle, today it's water bottles.

posted by apoch 24 May | 08:47

Yeah, I was just being an ass. I have yet to get a Bag of Carrots. I so want one.

posted by Splunge 24 May | 19:14

My Kindle arrived yesterday, and I've already downloaded 10 free ebooks from Amazon, including Tom Swift! I first checked Archive.org and was thrilled to find Tom Swift in mobi format, but the formatting is atrocious, with all sorts of weird artifacts from the automated OCR process (including "Google" added in from the bottom of watermarked pages). Then I saw the books were free on Amazon, and they look good!

posted by filthy light thief 27 May | 13:15

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