kindle

.MOBI files are supposedly readable by Kindle directly. TXT and DOC files can be converted (and will be converted for you by Amazon by emailing their your-kindle-name@free.kindle.com email address.

Seth on the Kindle...

Quoted: It's for women and women are buying it. The bestseller list of Kindle titles is much less tech-heavy than Amazon's list was in the early days of the web. An Oprah book is #1.

My friend, Ken Moss, wrote an excellent review of the pluses and minuses of the Kindle. I added a comment from my experience living in a multi-Kindle household.

Quoted: Mobipocket.com sells electronic books, or ebooks, for all PDA and Smartphones (and for your PC): Read them on your Windows Mobile Blackberry Palm Symbian ( Nokia Series 60 1st 2nd 3rd edition, UIQ 2, UIQ 3) or Pocket-PC .

Mobi-Pocket files can be created from PDF's and then downloaded to the Kindle.

This article was written before Amazon started supporting (experimentally) PDF file conversion for the Kindle. Anyway, there are some advantages of doing the conversion yourself rather than using Amazon's email-conversion service.

Kindle's currently take up to 6 weeks from the time you placed your order (people receiving them today, ordered them around Feb 1).

Sounds like the Christmas backlog is soon to be cleared, and Amazon expects to begin shipping the same day as they are ordered.

Quoted: Amazon.com's CEO says the company is finally ramping up production of its electronic book reader as customers continue to face long delays in receiving it. Read this blog post by David Carnoy on News Blog.

Quoted: ワイヤレスで電子書籍をダウンロードできるなど、新しい機能を備えた米Amazonの「Kindle」。後編では、私が感じた問題点と、将来の展望を考えてみよう。

More goodies than we all thought.

Quoted: Apparently, Amazon's wondrous e-book reader, the Kindle, has more than meets the eye