Great Gadget Gifts - The UK Kindle

The Kindle Electronic Book Reader has been available in the States for few years and has quickly become the leading portable reader there. But, for reasons of mystery to us mere mortals the sellers would not ship overseas. This left many UK readers and gadget fans wondering when if ever they would be able to get their hands on one.

For the last year the gadget news has been rife with stories of a possible launch date. But failed deals with mobile providers and who knows what else meant the launch has been repeatedly postponed. Now, at last The Kindle Reader can be ordered, payed for and delivered all from the UK. In a way the delay has meant we get the best Kindle too, as only the new generation portable reader is available to British customers. That means we only get the best, smallest, most ergonomic reader with the largest memory and the unique wireless technology to choose from. So a great gadget gift that doesn't need a degree in electronics to choose!

Of course at around $280 dollars this is not a Great Gadget Gift Idea for everyone. But for that someone special it really could be. If someone in your life fits any of the following criteria The Kindle Reader could be exactly what they need this year:

1. Avid Reader. There are over 250,000 titles ready to be downloaded direct to The Kindle UK with more appearing each day, not to mention newspapers, magazines and periodicals.
2. No Bookshelves. This portable electronic reader stores 1500 books which certainly does replace an awful lot of shelf space. All your books purchased from the Kindle Store are automatically backed up in your own personal online library, ready for you to access at any time should you delete them from your reader to make more space for new titles.
3. Keen Traveler. No more worries about luggage allowances and which books to take, take them all stored on the ebook reader and download more from over 100 countries worldwide.
4. Studying. With The Kindle you can make annotations using the discreet QWERTY keyboard, as you read that your reader will store, and that can be backed up wirelessly to your backup library online.
5. Frugal. Each Ebook downloaded is much cheaper than buying the 'real' version and you can download the first chapter free to see if its your kind of read before you buy.
6. Gadget Lover. The New Generation Kindle Reader available in the UK is sleek, lightweight and brilliantly designed to feel like a book. Dual controls mean you can read holding this with either hand, just as how most people read a paperback. The paper-like screen is designed to resemble paper and ink with no back-light to cause eye-strain and to ensure this feels nothing like using a computer screen.

There are a few Beta features available in the US that will not be made available to UK Kindle customers. But, for most these are of no significance. The key points are that you get a sleek, simple to use Portable Electronic Reader that will store a huge number of books. Plus of course the wireless technology that allows books to be ordered directly from the Kindle is staying. UK customers will not enjoy quite such high speeds as those in the US that use Whisper-net, but with 3G signals virtually everywhere now books will still be downloaded swiftly directly to the UK Kindle.

So now, for book lovers and gadget freaks in Britain there is a new Great Gadget Gift; The UK Kindle.

The Kindle UK
The Kindle UK