If you love to read and in particular if you love to read and to travel then you’ve got to get a Kindle. I got mine a few weeks ago and I love it!

It can store up to 1500 books so you can read whatever you want whenever you want. You connect to Amazon via wifi from anywhere in the world, including in Europe (for free), and it takes 2 seconds to buy and download a new book.

What I love most is that I can just take the Kindle with me when travelling and don’t have to carry 2 or 3 heavy books. So if I want to read say a Lonely Planet guide of the destination and another book then I easily can and if I don’t like what I’m reading, I can just download another book and read that instead.

Even though the Kindle is kind of expensive, I do think it’ll work out cheaper in the long run. If you live in France, you know how ridiculously expensive English language books are. Even if you order from Amazon.fr or Amazon.co.uk the prices are really inflated. Or if you do buy from Amazon.com where the books are cheaper, you still have to pay for postage which adds quite a bit to the cost. So with the Kindle, the price of a book is slightly less than what you would pay for the physical book and there is no postage so, win!

Kindle Europe

They don’t sell the Kindle here in France or anywhere in Europe, you have to buy it from Amazon.com in the US. They ship it by international courier and customs duty is paid directly to Amazon but it’ll arrive in Europe after 2 or 3 days which is great.

The only real negative I’ve found about the Kindle is that, it seems, you can only get the American version of books which means American spelling and American grammar, which I find annoying, but you can’t have everything I suppose.

You can order your Kindle from Amazon here.