It could be a pain to purchase a merchandise from US webstores because most of them don't deliver non-US addresses.
I just purchased Kindle 3 (wi-fi) from Amazon and used
Borderlinx to get it delivered to Singapore. Well it's not delivered to Borderlinx US address yet. So I'll have to wait another a few more days for Borderlinx to deliver it to ME in Singapore. I hope I'm still in Singapore to receive it :( Otherwise, I will have to use another courier (again) to get it delivered to my home country, by the way that's where I'm gonna be after a few days. That can probably bleed money.
I decided to buy it because I thought I could save paper (and money?) in the long run. Also because, I read from Amazon that there are a hug collection of free kindle books collection on Amazon itself hoping that I would find a lot of books to download for FREE. Until later, I found out that people from Asia Pacific Region are not able to purchase any kindle books from Amazon!!!
(not even with money, let alone FREE collection).
Another reason is because I have a collection of e-books, mostly sent by
my friend, who has even a BIGGER collection. I was hoping that maybe I could have pleasure of reading those e-books without having to cost anything extra and without straining my eyes like when I read on computer. But, I wasn't sure Kindle 3 was capable of reading PDF files.
To my relief, it can!! Except that the display width might not be optimum as PDF files are meant for larger display screen. (Never mind, I can scroll up and scroll down). I can just copy the files and paste it onto my kindle OR send the ebooks to myname@kindle.com and have them converted to kindle format. And hopefully, both will work.
I've been intending to write more blogposts today. I was thinking about jotting down my plan that I intend to do back in Home. At the same time, I was thinking maybe I should enable sign-in lock.
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