Kindle and Amazon Book Stores

Maybe unlink one of kindles, and created a Amazon dot com account, via a vpn. Then log into the kindle via the new account  address.

Worth a try, but messy.   your likely to fall short when trying to buy with a UK CC/DC, you’ll probably need to buy 20 usd amazon vouchers via Amazon UK, then add the voucher to the US account.

Doesn’t look like you can buy USD cards off amazon UK, so you would need to try your luck on ebay. You’ll probably be ripped off. But tbh if the New kindle ever touched the Internet with out a vpn, Amazon would likely take a fit.

They don’t like you messing about like that. I once had an Audible dot Com account, from thr pre Amazon days, when amazon bought Audible they clamped down on the US accounts.

In their credit they contacted me and all the book I “illegally” purchases, from before Amazon ownership they added them to my new UK Audible account, as a show of goodwill.

So approach  with caution.

If you read this thread on the Amazon forums http://tinyurl.com/kl6mta3 the problem isn’t so much Amazon as the publishers or local laws.

I guess Amazon have to cover themselves and it’s far too much faffing about to do it on a book by book basis.

SWMBO has the original Kindle, which was mine at first. I put Kindle for PC on her laptop, my desktop and tried it on my Wiley Fox, but that was too small for my failing eyesight. Adjusting Text Size just left too few lines per page. Then I bought a Lenovo TAB 8 and put Kindle on that: success! I can read very well on that, it’s brilliant. I don’t know if I can buy from Amazon.com, doubt it for copyright reasons, but I will certainly have a go with the Tab 8. If I succeed, I’ll let you know.

There are lots of different e-book publishers available for Android devices. I was given this link last week, haven’t had time to check it out yet, but it looks good:     https://tinyurl.com/m7ambof

In your mum’s case FS, I would advise factory – resetting and selling both Kindles, then buying a good Android 8″ tablet. She could stuff it with e-books then, with lots of choice from various sources. Our County Library lets us download e-books from their website, don’t know if yours does. There are just so many e-book outlets now, it seems a pity to just tie it to Amazon.

In my view, a tablet is no substitute for a Kindle if all you want to do is read.

I personally find that a good high dpi pad is just as good as a Kindle, better in fact for text books containing illustrations. I’ll concede that Kindles are better in bright sunlight.  However this is all moot for Polish books, as a Kindle is not really much good if the words are all transliterated. It makes reading a real chore if the characters are mere approximations or worse show as black boxes. LINK

I understand what those of you say when opposed to a tablet for reading e-books, but I don’t just use the tab 8 for that. I have all kinds of uses for it that a Kindle is not equipped to handle, so for me a Kindle is an unnecessary expense. As for the screen, I don’t have a problem with my eyesight when reading on the tablet, and my close up eyesight is poor now. I am able to adjust the lighting and text until it suits me and I can read for as long as I wish. I can also sync the Tab with my Google account over all other devices. The Lenovo Backup & Sync feature is great for this, works well with Google.

The way I see it, a Kindle is good for one thing, because that’s what it was made to do: the right android tablet can do so much more. I did my usual trick when choosing my tab 8, went to Curry’s and other stores and tried every tablet I could find. Some of the more expensive models were a lot harder on the eyes than the Lenovo. The real “cheapo” models, were horrible. Then I bought the Lenovo Tab 8 online from Argos. Unusually, Amazon were quite a lot more expensive for the same model.

blacklion1725 wrote:

As always the superb Calibre pogram and ApprenticeAlf plugin make all the ebooks and ereaders platform independent. 

I was told that the new version of Kindle for PC (1.19) doesn’t use the AZW ebook format that Calibre knows how to read. Instead, it uses the new KFX ebook format—which AFAIK nothing else can yet read or convert ?

Boris wrote:

blacklion1725 wrote:

As always the superb Calibre pogram and ApprenticeAlf plugin make all the ebooks and ereaders platform independent.

I was told that the new version of Kindle for PC (1.19) doesn’t use the AZW ebook format that Calibre knows how to read. Instead, it uses the new KFX ebook format—which AFAIK nothing else can yet read or convert ?

I downloaded two books last weekend and had no issues converting – is it for new releases only? I purchased Sourcery, so not really a new release!

Before you put in too much effort I’d strongly suggest that you check if the Polish language can actually be displayed on a Kindle. Download one of the copyright free Polish classics as an epub and import it into a Kindle.