Wow!

[mmegaera]

Happy birthday to me! (a bit early, my birthday is April 8 -- yes, Easter Sunday -- but I was told by the giver to open upon arrival)

I haz a Kindle! Of my very own!

Of course, I don't have WiFi at home, so I'll have to stop at the library tomorrow and activate it...

I don't want to have WiFi at home, because then I'd be able to get online with my netbook at home, and my netbook is my writing computer, and I don't want the distraction (believe me, if I can get online when I should be writing, I will -- willpower does not work in this situation). But apparently I can buy ebooks through Amazon on my computer and then transfer them via the USB cord once I get the thing registered. I hope so.

Any suggestions on how to deal with a Kindle without handy WiFi would be most appreciated.

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[mmegaera]

Thank you. I have Calibre on my netbook already [g]. I use it to buy and read non-Amazon ebooks (I had to have it to buy books from Carina Press, IIRC). I just didn't realize I could use it to transfer files to the Kindle because I figured since it wasn't an Amazon product it wouldn't work with the Kindle.

And thank you for the link to the tutorial. I suspect I'm going to need it [g].