| Free Kindle offers? Sounds a little impossible to | | | | 4. Wikipedia Access : Wikipedia (Owned by |
| come by with a gadget that costs $359. But | | | | Amazon) is also offered at no additional charge. |
| Amazon Kindle Reader does indeed offer 10 | | | | 5. Free Browsing: Basic web browsing is available |
| things for free. The investment may sound a little | | | | for free. |
| too steep for the first time but come to think of | | | | 6. Free kindle eBooks : Free Kindle formatted |
| it, the mammoth amount of information and | | | | books are not impossible to get either. |
| books (including best sellers) that we can avail for | | | | Occasionally, Amazon does offer ebooks as free |
| prices, that are getting cheaper by the day, the | | | | downloads for limited periods. For example, on |
| kindle offerings can be ironically called almost | | | | Earth Day, Amazon made Go Green, Live Rich |
| "free" in the long run. The value for money is | | | | available for free. A considerable number of books |
| definitely better than many useless freebies we | | | | have been made available for free to Kindle users |
| often pay for. But I just realized we still get 10 | | | | in anticipation of new releases from the authors. |
| things for free from a Kindle and it's downloads | | | | Private, by Kate Brian, was issued for free in |
| that we almost take for granted. | | | | December, 2008, in order to help generate |
| | | | interest in Brian's new series, Privilege. |
| 1. Free space : Yes! plenty more of free space | | | | 7. Free Text to Speech Option : With the latest |
| around the house with every readable thing going | | | | release Amazon kindle 2 reader, a pre-installed |
| completely digital. Hence no more stacking up of | | | | text to speech software is for free. |
| newspapers, paperbacks or print publications. Book | | | | 8. Freedom of Mobility : Above everything else, |
| shelves of course are an integral part of our living | | | | the most important factor that what comes free |
| space, but Kindle is changing it all, by packing | | | | with it is our "mobility". For the first time in history |
| library full of books within a palm. Only exception | | | | we can freely roam about anywhere, while |
| could be books becoming collectible items in | | | | accessing a world full of information on the go. |
| future. | | | | 9. Time : Time is money and Kindle literally saves |
| 2. Free Access to Whispernet : Kindle Store, the | | | | us a great deal of it. No more of wasting time on |
| hub of all great reads in the world, can be | | | | traveling, accessing and searching for information |
| accessed free of charge through Whispernet over | | | | from multiple sources. |
| Sprint's EVDO network (A service provided by | | | | 10. Hi-tech Add-Ons : Free Oprah-Kindle Coupon |
| Amazon). Thus, completely negating the need to | | | | dispenser. Artificial intelligence interactivity. Digital |
| access a computer. | | | | display turning into a writing pad at the press of a |
| 3. Free Document Conversion : Amazon also does | | | | button and phone access for free. Free Voice |
| offer an email-based service that converts HTML, | | | | recognition and Mobile Banking. Oops, I guess I |
| DOC (Microsoft Word), JPEG, GIF, PNG, and BMP | | | | foretold the future of Kindle to come as well. No |
| documents to AZW for free. It supports audio in | | | | Kidding! the pace at which technology is evolving, |
| the form of MP3s and Audible 2, 3, and 4 | | | | we can surely hope to see Kindle 3 or Kindle 4 |
| audiobooks, which must be transferred to the | | | | with all these features. I just mentioned them a |
| Kindle over USB or on an SD card. | | | | little ahead of time. |