Another huge advantage of getting your books through Kindle is that you no longer need to judge a book by the blurb on the jacket. Kindle allows you to download and read the beginning of books for free. Sample lengths vary from book to book, but it still beats the old way of buying a book. Until now, you had to read the back cover blurb of only about 200 words and decide whether it was worth paying $30.00 or more for the full product. Now you can read the first few pages, most times a complete first chapter, of the actual book before choosing whether or not to pay around $10.00 for the full version. You can be so much more comfortable in your choices and have access immediately through a free, wireless, delivery method.
You could also download and enjoy more than 60,000 audio titles, although these are accessed slightly differently. You need to download them to your PC via your existing internet connection and then transfer them to your kindle using a USB 2.0 cable. You can then listen to them via the speaker in your Kindle, or simply plug in a set of headphones for a more personal and private listening experience. The audio titles include best selling audio books, radio programs, audio newspapers and magazines.
Kindle 2 holds around 1,500 books and also has a text-to-speech feature, so it can effectively read your books, magazines and blogs to you, unless the rights holder of a particular book disable that function.
One important note is that, for Non-US residents, choices and prices do vary a little.
