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More people now than ever are enjoying expat life abroad. Whether it be for a change of climate, scenery or lifestyle, moving away can have lots of advantages. But when you talk to many expats and you will find they dearly miss browsing in bookshops for new titles in their native tongue. This is when The Kindle Reader may just be an Expat's best friend.
The Kindle International Edition solves one of the most talked about problems for expat communities and that is where you can find a decent new book to read? One downside to life in a foreign country can be missing familiar little things like trawling a good bookshop or simply enjoying an abundant supply of reasonably priced reading matter.
The Original Kindle with its "SD" card does allow you to organize your books, if you put different kinds of books on different memory cards. One card for this and another card for that. Just grab the card that you are in the mood for. Kindle 2 is a little slimmer but not really enough to make a huge difference. The viewing area is the same, the page turning is a little faster on the Kindle 2 but not significantly so.
Any expat community is likely to be full of book swaps. Book sales dominate 'car boot sales' too. But, great as these sources of cheap reading material are, they are simply not the same as having a good supply of up to date books to choose from. This is where the Kindle 2 comes in. Until recently sellers would only ship Kindle Readers to customers in the US. Of course a few were passed on to book fans worldwide, but most readers were not so lucky. Now anyone living in any of one hundred countries can order one of these portable reading devices for themselves.
The main controls are redesigned on the Kindle 2 and now uses a five way toggle switch to move your cursor around the screen. This did away with the up and down cursor along the right side of the screen. People seem to like that setup better as it's easier to make notes and highlight areas of interest.
The reason this particular ebook reader is so good for expats, is because of the wireless capability. In many areas where British Expats enjoy a sunnier life, the Kindle can be used wirelessly. Simply connect to a local 3G mobile phone signal and you can order, preview and download books directly from the Kindle Store or from your online library of previously purchased titles.
You can still connect the reader to a PC via a USB cable to download your content that way too, but downloading direct to the reader is much faster and more efficient. Though there will still be a shortage of English language book stores to browse in your home abroad, you can use the preview facility to download the first chapter of many ebooks before you make a decision to buy. So maybe the Kindle International Edition really is a great tool for book loving Expats.
Megan Sara Jones is the author of four Ebooks published on Amazon. For more information on this article, or all things connected with Kindle readers or Ebooks please visit Everything Kindle.
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