I am really interested in Kindle ,but if u have noticed ,nowadays book-publishing companies spread thier book in the (.chm) format along with their hard copies.

so ,my question is (does kindle 3 support this format .chm?
and another question does it support Arabic text or not ? thanks

best regards
Nabaz

I have high speed internet, and a wireless router to a 2nd computer. My net service is from Bellsouth. We also have good cell phone service (we are in the country) from Verizon, and no other service provider has a good signal.

I dont travel much, nor go to Wi Fi areas, although our local shop center Books a Million, and our city library may have it.

I just want to download at home. Is all I need the $139 Kindle with WI Fi, or the $ 189 with Wi Fi and 3G. How do I then actually access the router to download. Or do I download on the computer, and then load the Kindle thru a USB port?

I would appreciate advice for Kindles for Dummies like me.

One option for the video + book reader + *minimal* web/email is the Augen “The Book”. You can get one at Kmart for $99+tax (with a 90 day return policy). It’s a 800×480 color TFT LCD instead of eInk, so battery life is limited at around 8 hours. It comes with a leather cover and 150 free ebooks preloaded.

The Book supports a wide variety of ebook formats, including Adobe DRM, has a full size SD slot supporting up to 32GB SDHC cards, plays video and audio, and has a slow but functional webkit based browser. The browser works pretty well, but it’s definitely not as fast as IE or Safari. And no flash support. The movies I’ve tested off an SD card played pretty well, especially when I used headphones instead of the speaker.

I’ve used a Kindle 1 and 2, and have to say that I like The Book a little bit more. But… if I get to see a Kindle3 before the end of my return period, I may buy the K3 instead…

And yes, I would. I’ve been unemployed for eight months, and at this point she wouldn’t take anything from me that was free.

I’m curious if anyone really keeps 1,000s of books on their device??? At most, I keep about 10. I’m in two book clubs so I have two reasonably respectable titles, a SF/Fantasy and a mystery (I need to keep myself intellectually rounded), my Science News subsription to impress the geekyest of my co-workers and then a couple of pieces of pure trash (hidden under a “Miscellaneous” Collection). It sure is nice not to have to lug them around especially on planes (my boss used to have a lot of fun mocking me when I couldn’t get my bag in the overhead bin because of 5-6 books), but I still don’t see the value of thousands of titles. I would vote for a more useful browser!

Unless you are subtly pulling my leg with your question… The only device that I’m aware of that does video, email/web and ebooks is the iPad…

Doesn’t Amazon DTP as it stands disallow Cyrillic characters in the content submitted for publishing? Or perhaps they may lift this restriction now that they have provided native Cyrillic support in the new Kindle? Or maybe the restriction has already been lifted but this is not yet reflected in the online DTP manual?

I would very much like to publish a Kindle version of the bilingual anthology of Russian poetry which I edited and which has been selling reasonably well on Amazon as a paperback. The book is asking to be made available for Kindle: it is full of annotation and cross-references, so a well-designed electronic version may provide an much enhanced reader experience. One of the original obstacles to implementing this idea (the need for a Unicode font hack) is no more, but is Cyrillic now allowed by Amazon DTP?

now I want to wait for a DX with wifi, why do they have to make it so hard? ;-)

So now, Kindle 2 is being shipped to me. When it gets here, I’m going to return it to sender and order the Kindle 3. I am so very amused by this whole process and am quite grateful that they announced the new version now rather than after it was too late to return!