Kindle - how, which and why ?

diveunderthebonnet

GDB2222 said:

https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/bookbub.com

Mixed reviews.

Thanks for the info ,looked at the reviews ,i think i will give this company a miss .

GDB2222

Loads of kindle books on Project Gutenberg. Free.

MouldyOldDough

OK She's looking at Kindles again

Does the Paperlight Signature edition (£189) have ADVERTS or not ?

https://amzn.eu/d/9IWr7A8

MikeJXE

When you launch your Kindle you face a screen of adverts

Swipe to open it and they disappear not to be seen again until you open it next time. 

Sea_Shell

Came here to search this very question.

Lots of info to digest...thanks.

Frozen_up_north

MouldyOldDough said:

OK She's looking at Kindles again

Does the Paperlight Signature edition (£189) have ADVERTS or not ?

https://amzn.eu/d/9IWr7A8

All models of Kindle come with/without adverts, depending on whether your pay more for the advert free one. You can pay to "upgrade" the advert version later, if the adverts annoy you.

Grey_Critic

As long as an advert does not pop up when I am reading it does not matter.Why bother paying extra just to get rid of an ad that does not actually impact once you swipe at the start?

MouldyOldDough

The wife (who is a luddite) has a kindle and is having problems

1. How do you turn the device off ?

instructions say : press button on bottom - but this brings up 3 options .. sleep (no OFF)

2. How to delete books that amazon have suggested as they are just trials/ few pages and not suitable

3. How to buy books directly from the device (how to find and select them) - she can do this from her tablet but it must be possible to do this from the kindle

She has an Amazon account - so I am guessing that she needs to sync the two devices together - somehow ?

She regrets buying the device - it is too hard for her to use

Vitor

If you insist on a full shutdown: hold down the power button until a screen pops up, then choose “Power Off"
On the Home screen, long-press the book you don’t want, a menu should pop up with an option to remove
Go to the Home screen, tap “Store” (sometimes labelled “Kindle Store”). Browse or search for the book, then select it and tap “Buy”.

No manual syncing is needed as long as she registered the device with her Amazon account during setup.