I know there are lots of people who are really ticked off with Amazon 
and the accessibility of the Kindle.. or its lac ck thereof, but I 
wanted to point out one aspect of it I use constantly, and that is 
access to documents via wifi.  I know there are other ways to do this, 
so it's not anything really new, but I certainly enjoy it.

If you have the Kindle 3, and I bought the $139 version, you can send 
any Word document to it wirelessly.  Then you can read it using the text 
to speech, which is pretty good quality.  I am a novelist, so I send my 
own chapters to listen to them and I also get books from other authors 
in doc format to write reviews.  I don't own a Stream.. I made the 
decision to spend the money I had on the Kindle instead, even without 
full accessibility for a variety of reasons.  I like that wireless 
transfer.  I also need to read scholarly articles both for research for 
books or for articles I plan to write.    I take material that is in 
text format and just open and save it in Word so it will work with the 
Kindle.

I just wanted to mention this so people who are interested learn about 
this capability.  I don't really want to argue the perfidy of Amazon's 
accessibility record.  I will only say I adore my Kindle and use it 
daily to read books, magazines, and documents.  I will answer questions 
about the Kindle 3 but I won't get into debate4s about all or nothing.  
I've been through enough of those already.  You can find more about my 
experiences with Kindle at http://allsheread.blogspot.com and check the 
label list for Kindle.

Respectfully,

Nan Hawthorne
Author, blogger, broadcaster and songwriter
www.nanhawthorne.com

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