Great interview and keep up the great work Mr Len Edgerly.

Please put me on your alert list.

Thank you
Gene

Also, a pretty disappointing thing was using a kindle feeder service that aggregates a lot of articles from the Internet according to your feed settings. The catch is you get a short summary for many of the articles and a link to the full article but can’t use the link while reading the summaries on your Kindle since you don’t have wireless access.

Still there are so many great things you *can* do with the Kindle to offset these disappointments and even if you can not use your Kindle fully, it is kind of impressive the degree to which Amazon is exploiting wireless capabilities even if you are unable to make use of it yourself in your given situation.

So for those outside of a good coverage area hoping to use the method Pat has passed on to us should keep this in mind.

I had someone call Amazon CS and they said some people are sending their Kindle to people they know in a coverage area to be swithced on so the automatic one-time registration can take place. However, they also caution you to use some kind of deceptive packaging (differnt kind of box with different form factor) as Kindle’s have been know to have been stolen in the mail when packaged in some kind of obvious way.

Without wireless you can not receive any of the sample chapters as that is only done wireless and so makes me speculate that the content provider may be subsidizing this as a form of marketing and maybe building it into the cost structure of their business.

I think there has been some confusion where some are doing the latter and believing to have done the former for which they were expecting a charge at first but ending up being charged.

“Learn more about individual charges”

that opens a window stating that you will be charged $3.00 once you reached 30 e-mails translated and sent to your Kindle. I haven’t tried it but I am interested if anyone has sent 30, if they have then received a charge of $3.00. Thanks, your podcasts are terrific.

I’m in a section of the country that has good Sprint connection, so I don’t need to do this, but I see the need out in the rest of the country.

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