My new Kindle arrived on St. Patricks Day, Slancha !

About a week after my old Kindle died, I ordered the 3G version.  I was delighted to turn it on and discover all of my archived books were there, all I have to do is highlight the title, wait a little bit and the book is loaded for me.

It took me 48 hours before I learned (by reading the manual) how to turn the Kindle OFF.  Hold on off button for 7 seconds.  Oy!

Didn't take very long to fully charge the battery. 

I rather miss the first generation roller ball that allowed navigation up and down the page to make notes, and I made a LOT of them particularly on POORLY TRANSCRIBED E-BOOKS.  Are you listening Amazon? 

So by process of trial and error I am able to make notes , open Symbols to make use of numbers which are not on the physical keyboard.  Most arduous. One must be really angry to go to the lengths to make a note.  One can also make highlights and these can be publicly shared.  Oh GAWD no, NO PUBLIC SHARING!!

I find it much more difficult to select a word to look up in the dictionary, unless there is a short cut I must select menu, select dictionary, type word and THEN definition pops up, I find that very laborious.  New Kindle I can select ONE word.  Old Kindle would look up entire line.  So, there is a trade off.

Also I can adjust type size to amazingly large, almost one word per page.

Apparently I have built in thing that will read to me.  I will test that as well.  I can load music and have background music while I read.  No thank you, I would find that annoying.

Under experimental, I can browse the Internet.  New Kindle much better, I typed in URL for my blog and there it was!  Not sure if I liked the navigation within the blog but I could view it quite nicely.

I also have the capability of "sharing" with my social network; face book, twitter etc.  NO THANK YOU!!  

Lastly I splurged and ordered the lighted book cover.  The cover is very clever, first generation book cover relied on a couple wimpy corners to keep the Kindle in place. Someone engineered a couple of little brass hook things that the Kindle snaps onto which affixes the cover very nicely.  It took me a bit to actually find the light.  It is located in the top right hand corner, looks like a reinforced corner, pull out corner, itty bitty light slides up and casts reasonable amount of light on screen.  Next power outage we have I will read in the dark and let you know if I find it beyond irritating or not.