Reply #64: For those concerned about the cost of the Kindle

[yasmina27]

I debated long and hard - over a year after it's original release - before buying one. Why? The cost.

Since I bought mine in Feb. (K2), I have bought every title I would have bought anyway, for significant savings over the cost of buying the hard copy, whether paper or hard back. In addition, Amazon offers a lot of free or low-cost (under $1.00) books, I have more than 70 titles currently on my Kindle, plus periodicals. While I haven't totalled the savings, I have no doubt that I have more than made up the cost of the Kindle already. There have been only one or two titles that I wanted that wasn't available on Kindle that I bought, then at least one was released on Kindle a week later! :(

Another feature I especially like is that you can download a sample of a book, to see if it interests you. If you don't like it, just delete the sample. And you have as long as you like. No deadline. Except for periodicals. You get a 14 day trial, then they start to charge you.