Getting Stuff to Read
According to Amazon, the two gigabytes of storage hardwired into a Kindle 2 can hold over 1,500 books. Reading one book a week, it would take almost 29 years to read that many books. If you have a Kindle DX or a new Kindle 3, youâd need to spend over 67 years reading the 3,500 books it can hold. Of course, a lot of avid readers go through more than just one book every week, but 1,500 to 3,500 books is a lot of reading no matter how you look at it.
If for some crazy reason your lifeâs goal is to read as many books as your Kindle can hold, youâd better get started. So where do you get all these books to read? Thatâs the point of this chapter. Although you have the largest digital bookstore at your fingertips, itâs not the only way to get books onto your Kindle. This comes as a bit of a relief since those 1,500 books would cost you around $14,985 if you bought them all from Amazon.
The truth is pretty much any document you can read on your computer can be read on your Kindle, too. That is, if you have the right tools, patience, and know-how. So what are you waiting for? Time to get reading!
The Kindle Store
One wonders if Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, saw the day coming when a person sitting on a park bench somewhere could browse through over 600,000 books using a device that weighs as much as a single paperback. Whether or not he saw this in the future, that future is here in the form of the Kindle bookstore.
You can either shop the Kindle store from ...
