Amazon Kindle 3 Review

Design and Dimensions:

Coming with a revolutionary design, the Kindle 3 is one of the thinnest eBook readers available on today’s market. It is a mere 0.335 inches thick, 4.8 inches wide and 7.5 inches tall. While being small and compact, the Kindle 3 Wi-Fi has also joined the market with a weight of only 8.5 ounces. The eBook reader is incredibly light in your hands and makes you believe like you are holding a light notebook instead of the numerous books you would actually be holding if you had actual copies of each rather than an e-version. The Kindle 3 offers a competitive price and gives you a higher quality eBook reader and more features than you will find in other options on the market.



Even though the Kindle 3 does not offer a touch screen, the E-Ink screen of the Kindle 3 provides a high contrast that truly makes users believe they are reading text from a sheet of paper as opposed to a handheld computer screen. The screen has been designed to eliminate glare, so you can read inside or outside and never worry about the lighting. The screen measures 6 inches diagonally, which creates a nice book-sized page which fits comfortably in your hands.



I was thrilled with the ease that the Kindle provided for navigation and general use. Within minutes I was able to navigate around the Kindle without error. The sliding power switch is located at the bottom of the Kindle, and sliding the button will "wake" or set the Kindle to sleep. When the Kindle turns off, or is sleeping, a screensaver will emerge, and although I gazed at more than 50 unique screensavers, I never observed the same one twice. The screensaver was generally the cover of a book or the image of a well known author.



The Kindle possesses a keyboard near the bottom of the device that makes it possible for users to more easily look for titles or authors. It has a four-way navigator, and buttons which can select, navigate to the home screen, move one step back, take you to the menu and provide viewing options. There is also a button that will provide you to access numbers and symbols. There are two buttons on either side of the screen; through these buttons you can turn pages forward and back again.



Content:

Aside from reading ebooks, you can choose and read newspapers, magazines and blogs from a library supplied by the Kindle 3. Comparable to other popular choices, this eBook reader supplies users with access to a store dedicated to providing materials. The Kindle 3 is furnished with direct access to the Kindle Store, which is where books, newspapers and magazines can be purchased and downloaded to your ebook reader. Amazon is very pleased to make the promise to their users that you can buy and begin reading your book in less than 60 seconds, one of the fastest download times I discovered in eBook readers.



Amazon has produced a feature that permits you to organize all of the content in your Kindle 3 to be precisely where you want it for fast, convenient accessibility. The organisation feature is identified as Collections.



Battery Life:

Displaying a battery life that can surpass any other eBook reader, the Kindle 3 battery can last up to one month on a solitary charge with Wi-Fi turned off. With Wi-Fi turned on, the battery will last for three weeks, which is still similar to or longer than the battery life of other eBook readers. The Kindle 3 can be charged with a USB cable and will be completely charged in 4.5 hours.



Memory:

Even though there is 4GB of internal memory, you are only in a position to access and use 3GB. This is, however, enough to store up to 3,500 books. Imagine hauling around 3,500 books with you everywhere you go! There are more than 700,000 books at the Kindle Store for customers to download and read. If you aren’t sure that you will enjoy a book, you can download a no charge sample, which would mean you will have access to the initial few chapters of a book before you figure out if you are going to buy it or not. Amazon also has put together over 1 million books which users can download and read for totally free. Amazon keeps a back-up of all of your books associated to your account, so if you delete a book by accident or even delete it on purpose and thenchange your mind and decide you want to read it again, you can download it once again for free.



Extra Features:

The Kindle 3 offers 16 unique shades of grey on its E-Ink screen. I was slightly let down that the finest eBook reader available doesn’t provide a color screen; however, our dissatisfaction was quickly forgotten about as I used the Kindle 3 and sat admiring the detailed pictures and the screen contrast which outperforms all the competition. As I pointed out earlier, each time the Kindle turns off, or goes to sleep, a different picture appears on the screen; these pictures are incredibly detailed and one can see the quality that Amazon has developed by deciding to use the 16 levels of grayscale.



Users can additionally access Amazon’s experimental prototypes through the Main Menu of the Kindle 3. The Experimental Menu supplies you with three options that Amazon are testing to see if they are useful to users. When you open this menu on your Kindle 3, you will see a communication from Amazon stating that if you find these features helpful and want them to continue working on them, let them know. The first option that Amazon offers through the Experimental Menu is a web browser that makes it feasible for you to type in a URL and surf the web. The second application is an MP3 player. As soon as you have downloaded MP3 files to your Kindle 3 and stored them in the Music folder, you have the possiblity to listen to music while you read or whenever you have got your Kindle 3 with you. The last experimental prototype Amazon offers is the Text-to-Speech functionality that allows users to begin listening to a book at any point they choose, it doesn’t have to start off from the beginning.



Summary:

If you take pleasure in reading and are always looking for your next good read, I suggest purchasing the Kindle 3. The Kindle 3 portable eBook reader is first rate in the features and tools which matter: readability, size, simplicity of use, battery life, library selection, speakers and fast page turns.



The Kindle 3 is also placed higher than the Kindle DX because it is a faster and more portable device. In my opinion, The Kindle 3 is the greatest ebook reader on the market as of writing because the Kindle eReader can be used anywhere - clouds or shine. For all the fantastic capabilities of the Kindle 3 plus the added benefit of 3G network connectivity, we definitely recommend the enhanced Kindle 3G + Wi-Fi.



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