Thursday, April 12, 2012

Kindle in the PI

The Bugle has been hearing a lot of good about the Kindle E-book readers that are being sold by Amazon. He has also heard about the negatives but he figured what the hell the ability to carry thousands of books on a small lightweight device was worth the risk. So he tried to purchase one on Amazon. He figured there would be no problem as Amazon will ship books to the Philippines. Alas the Kindle must have some kind of amazing computing capability as Amazon refuses to ship one to a Philippine address. I didn't know that the PI was considered some kind of haven for computer geeks that would be able to reverse engineer the whole thing and make some kind of thermo-nuclear device. Or maybe it is those darn Chinese we wouldn't want them to get ahold of this kind of technology. Oh wait a minute you mean to tell me that these Kindles are produced in China. Then what could possibly be the reason that Amazon won't ship one over to me?
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  1. AnonymousApril 12, 2012 at 7:51 PM

    There are all kinds of restrictions on shipping electronics through standard parcel channels. In addition, Amazon has a done a lousy job with international accords necessary to ship their products around the world. See item: http://www.bgr.com/2011/09/30/amazons-inexperience-with-global-distribution-may-hinder-kindle-fire-sales/ But in reality, the Barnes and Noble Nook is a better deal: nicer screen and you can add an Android chip and have a tablet that plays all your favourite movies as DivX etc... and runs all kinds of other stuff, from games to word processing apps. And the newest Nook has better battery life for those long plane rides over the pond!

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    1. Bamboo BugleApril 13, 2012 at 8:40 PM

      Thanks for the interesting link. I might have to look into a Nook myself. But it will be hard to beat the 3 week battery life of the Kindle

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