10 Reasons to Get Mom a Kindle
May 4, 2009 by Mary Jo Manzanares
Filed under Deals & Steals, Home, Travel & Lifestyle
I’ve had my Kindle (the first version) for a little over a year now, and I still love it! It’s made by life traveling so much easier (I don’t have to pack a bunch of heavy books), and I find I read a lot more (just slip it in my purse so it’s handy any time I have to wait around). You can read my Kindle review here.
A Kindle would make a perfect Mother’s Day gift!
What kind of mom would like a Kindle? A mom who loves to read, loves gadgets, travels a lot, or who juggles a variety of newspapers and magazines.
Here are 10 more reasons why it would be a smart Mom’s Day buy:
- Kindle best seller downloads cost less than half the price of the hardback (even at a sale price)
- Immediate downloads means you have the book, magazine, or newspaper right now – and I mean RIGHT NOW
- It’s only an inch thick and weighs 10.2 ounces (yes, ounces, that’s less than a paperback book)
- It holds over 1,500 books, and when you get more than that, you can store the excess at Amazon and retrieve it any time at no additional cost
- Great battery life, you can read for hours and hours before needing a re-charge
- Read-to-me feature that makes the text a veritable “book on tape”
- Adjustable font size (she can read even if she forgets her glasses)
- She’ll love you forever – okay, maybe you have that one squared away anyway
- Future gifts will be a snap – just get gift certificates so she can download some more books
- If you order today you can have it by Mother’s Day
Available exclusively from Amazon, $359.
Photo credit: Amazon
There are so many books that aren’t available on Kindle yet.
Thanks for the comment, Brianna.
I know that not everything is on Kindle, but more gets added each day. It’s only been rarely that I haven’t been able to find what I want. I think that it’s more heavily weighted for fiction, though.
Amazon does have a button that you can use to send a message to the publisher that you’d like to see the book in Kindle form. I’m not sure what happens when I click on it, but I do that every once in awhile.
Ultimately, though, I think it’s all going to come down to sales. If the publisher thinks there’s a market to successfully sell it on Kindle, it will be there.