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This is the latest incarnation of the Kindle (the Kindle 4 &#8211; officially known as &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B0051QVF7A\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=marsweblo-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;creativeASIN=B0051QVF7A\">Kindle, Wi-Fi, 6&#8243; E Ink Display<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.co.uk\/e\/ir?t=marsweblo-21&amp;l=as2&amp;o=2&amp;a=B0051QVF7A\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>&#8220;) and when it arrived, I wasn&#8217;t sure whether to open the &#8220;frustration free&#8221; packaging to find another box inside and wrap it as a gift, It turns out that the brown, wedge-shaped box with the word Kindle on the side and a rip-tab is the actual product packaging (typically functional and no-frills, but substantial enough to prevent damage).<\/p>\n<p>After unboxing, all that was needed was to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Plug the Kindle into a computer using the supplied USB cable.<\/li>\n<li>Select the language.<\/li>\n<li>Connect to a Wi-Fi network (using the soft keyboard).<\/li>\n<li>Register (in this case, to an existing Amazon account &#8211; more on that in a moment).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s all the basics to get going but, in the Manage Your Kindle section of the Amazon website I also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Edited the name (not much point my wife having a device that had defaulted to &#8220;Mark&#8217;s Kindle&#8221;).<\/li>\n<li>Added an email address from which to receive personal documents (if emailed to the Kindle).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At this point it&#8217;s probably worth mentioning something about sharing Kindles. \u00a0Because I&#8217;ve been using the Kindle app on my devices, it made sense that we should be able to share publications with one another. Unfortunately, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/forum\/kindle\/ref=cm_cd_et_md_pl?_encoding=UTF8&amp;cdForum=Fx3IRFCNF3E5K2W&amp;cdMsgNo=7&amp;cdPage=1&amp;cdSort=oldest&amp;cdThread=Tx1XN4KJCHOWLJG&amp;cdMsgID=Mx1MQP699S9FM6L#Mx1MQP699S9FM6L\">sharing requires the use of a single account<\/a> (hence why my wife&#8217;s new Kindle was automatically named &#8220;Mark&#8217;s Kindle&#8221; and why the welcome note is addressed to me&#8230;). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/help\/customer\/display.html?nodeId=200549320\">In the United States, there are limited options to lend books<\/a>\u00a0but it&#8217;s not universal, and it&#8217;s far from the model that we see in print (walk to shelf; pick up book; give to\u00a0friend;\u00a0friend\u00a0returns book at some stage a few weeks later) &#8211; although <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/forum\/kindle\/ref=cm_cd_et_md_pl?_encoding=UTF8&amp;cdForum=Fx3IRFCNF3E5K2W&amp;cdMsgNo=65&amp;cdPage=3&amp;cdSort=oldest&amp;cdThread=Tx1XN4KJCHOWLJG&amp;cdMsgID=MxS90QKBJBJW8K#MxS90QKBJBJW8K\">I did find an interesting analogy on the Amazon website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/forum\/kindle\/ref=cm_cd_et_md_pl?_encoding=UTF8&amp;cdForum=Fx3IRFCNF3E5K2W&amp;cdMsgNo=37&amp;cdPage=2&amp;cdSort=oldest&amp;cdThread=Tx1XN4KJCHOWLJG&amp;cdMsgID=Mx2YC70UG4VDXZK#Mx2YC70UG4VDXZK\">With multiple Kindles on one account<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We can select purchases individually but they are charged to one card.<\/li>\n<li>Purchases using the Kindle will go to the Kindle being used at the time.<\/li>\n<li>Purchases from the Amazon website can be sent to whichever Kindle is chosen.<\/li>\n<li>Any purchase made can be also loaded onto other Kindles on the same account.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how easy it would be to damage the E Ink display but I didn&#8217;t want to take the chance &#8211; we bought a cover for Mrs W.&#8217;s Kindle which does have the downside of increasing weight and volume but also looks quite nice. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B004SD1XB0\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=marsweblo-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;creativeASIN=B004SD1XB0\">Amazon&#8217;s official cover<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.co.uk\/e\/ir?t=marsweblo-21&amp;l=as2&amp;o=2&amp;a=B004SD1XB0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0is expensive (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B004SD1ZPY\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=marsweblo-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;creativeASIN=B004SD1ZPY\">the one with a built-in light<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.co.uk\/e\/ir?t=marsweblo-21&amp;l=as2&amp;o=2&amp;a=B004SD1ZPY\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0is even more so) but there are plenty of third-party alternatives available (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B005SSBTFE\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=marsweblo-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;creativeASIN=B005SSBTFE\">the one I bought<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.co.uk\/e\/ir?t=marsweblo-21&amp;l=as2&amp;o=2&amp;a=B005SSBTFE\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> was less than \u00a310 from Amazon.co.uk).<\/p>\n<p>Overall, I&#8217;m pretty impressed with the Kindle. 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