First of all, getting goods from Amazon to Ukraine isn’t impossible

I decided to try to buy something directly from Amazon (without resending to postal), because had a great desire to own Kindle and besides it costs much less if I would buy some other e-reader here in Ukraine. Reader with same capabilities/quality in Ukraine but from other vendors costs about 300$. At the same time Kindle3 costs 139$. Of course delivering to Ukraine has its price – 20.98$.
I booked it on August 23 and have it in my hands on September 15 delivered by postal service USP. And btw time it get to deliver to Ukraine after it was shipped from America took few days!


Impression

Guys, this toy is awesome! You may know that I got sick in recent days so I lied in a bed and put few books on my Kindle. Reading is just pressure. But you will need a lot of light. Under daylight it is perfect, but when you use another light, you might need few sources working together, also it depends on the book you read, because if it is something you can increase font size you might be fine with low light.

I also tried Wi-Fi and first thing I used to see was my blog. To be honest browsing internet on Kindle is painful and also you will have to do zooming often.

 Picture above was added after this post has been posted.

File Formats

Since this is my first e-reader I will not be able to accurately compare it with others, but I’ve seen a lot of other and do not see if they could be better. The most used argument about using other readers was ability to read other formats like *.pdf and etc. So I thought it will be able to recognize only this types of formats:
Kindle (.azw), text (.txt), Mobi (.mobi, .prc).

BUT it turns out that nothing prevents you from reading PDF. But I’m not sure about other formats.

I used Caribre converter to have my books in .mobi format. So if you convert .chm file or some other well structured file you get good file in output. If you convert .pdf file what you will get depends on your pdf file. In other words tables, graphics can be shifted/moved/disaper. If your pdf is set of pictures it is useless to convert it.

Only benefit from converting I see is possibility to use different features like changing font sizes.

I used to read pdf file by changing text direction to horizontal and it works well for me. Book looks exactly as it should look. Also if you pdf file is set of pictures it will take very long (10-15 sec) to change the page on kindle.

I hope that very soon I’ll read dozen of books and will spread all the wisdom I got thanks to Kindle :)