Shipping The Amazon Kindle To The UK – Piece Of Cake
I recently had an Amazon kindle reader shipped from the States to the UK. Although Amazon now sell the Kindle, both the Kindle 2.0 and the Kindle DX in over 100 countries worldwide, you need to buy them from the main U.S. website. I must admit, I did have some minor concerns with this, but in the end, these all proved to be unfounded.
I had to pay with a credit card, which was a minor annoyance as, in common with most Brits, I prefer to use a debit card for day to day purchases. But that was, as I say, a minor inconvenience. One of the things that I was uncertain about was the delivery time that would be required. In the end, my Kindle arrived about six days after I placed the order, which I thought was pretty good. To be perfectly fair to Amazon, two of those days were a weekend so, all things considered, it’s not a long time to wait at all.
The Kindle, quite naturally I suppose, ships with a U.S. type plug fitted to the charger. I travel a lot anyway (one of the reasons why I wanted a Kindle in the first place) so I had a suitable travel adapter to hand. If you don’t have one of these then you can disconnect the two prong plug from the cable and you will then be left with a USB connector. You can then use a computer to charge your Kindle up.
As I live in an area where mobile phone reception can be somewhat patchy, I had also wondered about whether or not I would get a good wireless signal. This was fine and I must admit, I was very impressed with the speed at which books downloaded. Most reviews I’ve read say “just under a minute” for a book download – but the few that I’ve downloaded so far were available in way less than that.
