Wait, WTF?
You need WiFi to use Kindle?!

Dads has just bought one for Mum. Given that it costs about the same as six books, it was a lovely present. Especially for when they go abroad.
But you have to register via WiFi and there is certainly a suggestion that you need WiFi to buy books.

Grrrrrr.
Don't tell you that on the adverts!

My bro will sort it out for her, but sadly it's meant that an £89 gift has been treated as a bit of a white elephant. Untrue, but with Mum's mood the way it is (understandable given recent events of course) her patience is low.

Bad Kimble.

There is a 3G Kindle, but most of them are WiFi-only.

I'm pretty sure you can put stuff (like files from Project Gutenberg) on the Kindle using a USB cord to a computer, but I'm not sure how or whether Amazon purchases work that way.

The new color Kindle, the Fire, is wifi only, but not yet available in the UK. Looking at amazon.co.uk, the 89 quid model is wifi only, the 149 quid one with the keyboard has the 3G.

You can help your mom get content on it by connecting it to the computer. How do you get online at home?

And she'll be able to take it to the cafes with wifi and show it off to all of her admiring friends.

Or it could be a means of your getting home wifi ... ;)

It does say wifi only in the advert, but you have to read a bit to figure that out.

Don't worry, we'll help you with it!

Just in case it's not obvious. You don't need to be connected to wifi to read the books -- just to download them.

Mum knows her way around the basics of a computer - she emails, checks certain sites and used a complicated mainframe when in the Police.

But like me, if she feels out of her depth, her first reaction is frustration and rejection.
I've learned to work through to an extent (as Dani knows, it's still there) but she is confused and hates it.

Stevo will register it for her (he has Wifi at home and knows Dad's Amazon account and email and password etc)
She won't have Wi-Fi in the house though.
She is SO wary of internet theft and nothing I can say would change her mind.
Ste might end up being the source of purchase for all her books!
Still, she buys >10 a year (for holidays - the rest come from the library or are lent between friends) so it's not a big ask.

It just surprised me. As you say, Wolf, it's there in the smallprint, but not made a big deal of in the advertising.

Then again, if I had access to new books I could keep for 99p I'd read a lot more.
That's 7-9 books for the price of one. And I could halve the bulk in my bedroom...
Maybe I should dissuade her from this venture and just pinch it for myself?
No! Like a serpent at her breast! Evil!

Do any of her neighbors have Wi-fi?

Nope. We're pretty much an old-fashioned crew down here.
S'okay - Ste will sort it out.

You could sneak in a wireless router for yourself and just not tell her ... Connect it in and say that it's a power conditioner or something.

But like I say, I'd get no use of it.
Of all the things I could sneak into the house to have fun with, a router is pretty low down on the list ;)

Mebbe Stevo will get tired of her demands and get her one.
Although the lad is pretty tolerant.

HELP.

An Idiot's Guide to using Kindle without WiFi.
This is driving me batshit crazy.

Ste registered it, I bought two books, now I need to know how to find them and how to download them.
They are there on my computer (under the Kindle folder).
But NOT on Kindle.
Kindle helpfully tells me to disconnect my Kindle from the computer when I plug it is. Ta!

I'm sure this is lovely, quick and easy and not a hideously complicated piece of shit not worth the hassle. I just need a few tips to get me going.

Something tells me we're going to need WiFi after all.

I've downloaded to the computer.
Then "Send To". When Kindle is attached via USB both books show as titles.
I just can't see them on the Kindle.

Will be buying magazines at the station at this rate.
So frustrating.

Plug Kindle into computer. Ignore what Kindle tells you (eject and unplug mean different things). Look on computer for an additional "drive" called "kindle". Drag and drop the books you can see on your computer to this new drive. Unplug Kindle and read your books on it.
Hope this helps.

The files are already on the [J] Kindle drive.
They just don't show on the tablet.

Bringing to Glasgow,
Healthier minds than mine will sort out.

Well, now, THAT'S certainly making an assumption or two ... :right:

Here's the best advice I can give on iPads:

Don't get one here:
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Fastest advice I can give you is to take the Kindle to a coffee place with wifi...

Second fastest is to make sure that when you moved the files you put them in the documents folder on that Kindle drive.