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Once you upload the book(s), is there a time limit, or can you save it to a portable drive ?

no time limit. you own it for life. its stays in your Amazon Kindle "acct" online forever and i believe you can also download to your PC/portable drive so you'll also have a closer copy.

it has a roaming mode so you can be aways ON (so to speak) to capture new books, etc. (but theres really no need to always be ON) if you have roaming on CONSTANTLY it holds a charge for 2 days and recharges in 20 minutes. if you are out of roaming mode (and up to 200 books can be stored on your kindle device) it will stay charged for 2 weeks!

i read alot about it online and lots of college kids are getting it cause they can put their school books in it instead of carrying all those heavy books around. its going to really become big. right now theres almost a 3 month waiting list on amazon to even order one . might be something to look into for your son!

Sounds like a great idea for college students...Thanks for posting up all the info. I saw this device displayed at a Barnes and Noble book store recently, and it looked interesting - They have a similar device for musical scores for musicians, so that you don't have to keep turning pages, and can highlight your parts...

i'm most impressed with the screen/visuals........it is just like a newspaper with no eye strain. supposedly the beginning or middle of 2009 they are planning on coming out with a Kindle2..........(as it is now you cant get a kindle till feb or march anyways unless you are very lucky)...........so i'm hoping that when the 2nd version comes out the 1st version will be way more affordable...which is all i want and i'm waiting for that!