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Shocked ! -amazon kindle

today checking amazon site, I found that kindle is priced down for winter bergain. I bought ¥6980 but now can buy ¥4980, very shocked ! And it is shown when I log in with amazon ID. I am now a member of amazon prime, so it might be limited member's information. Anyway, I'm very very shocked and felt anger for amazon..

New kindle has come !

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New kindle was released and it is not expensive (¥6980) compaired with kindle whitepaper (about  ¥10 thousant), so that I decided to buy one. I ordered Thursday and arrived next day on Friday due to amazon prime service (trying 30days free tiarl). Using it, it ers pad with old one, I can read japanese books from amazon.co.jp because my od one was USA version so it handle amazon.com, can't display japanese character. ( I sometimes use send-to-kindle option to display Japanese character from PDF document) - checking meaning of words easily. There are dictionary in old one but it is english-english dic. and moving cursor to a destination word takes a little time. But with new one, I touch a word and finish ! very simple. (of course there are japanese -English dic.) Furthermore, checked words are stored in flash card automatically. - Scrolling pages is very easily. There is a function that I can display page preview with small size, moving next page or chapter through  preview. It is v

Amazon kindle !

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I bought amazon kindle. ( I happend to pass the exam " network specialist " and if I passed this exam, my wife promised that I  could bought amazon kindle ..) I orderd it 26 Dec. and arrived at 20 Jan 15. It took a little time to get it and extra money due to shipping and handling($20) and import fees deposit($8), but cheaper compared to other readers. ( amazon total: $168 = 14thousant yen and sony reader 20 thousant yen and furthermore kindle handle internet browser). Amazon japan don't handle kindle so I ordered amazon usa and bought it.  #when I orderd it, there are selection "shipping speed" and when we choose fast shipping, it took extra money. I choice fast shipping because I wanted to use fast! (about $10 extra money) -> ref1 , ref2 We bought netbook last year and it was light (about 1 kg) and was very useful in my house because we can access wirelessly by wi-fi access. But when we used it outside, it was a little heavy and wasn't useful. But kindl