Saving more space with the Kindle

Posted: December 14th, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: Kindle | 3 Comments »

I really enjoy reading books on Amazon’s Kindle. I read a lot and nowadays I tend to favor Kindle books to regular ones.

Here’s a service that I would love for Amazon to offer though:

I would love to be able to return all those paperback and/or hardcover books that I purchased (often from Amazon.com) in the past to them. For each book they could then

  1. give me an electronic version, and
  2. offer the book for sale on the used market

This could turn out to be a potential win-win deal.

3 Comments on “Saving more space with the Kindle”

  1. 1 Lavonne said at 5:02 am on December 15th, 2008:

    List and sell your used hardcovers and paperbacks on Amazon. Create a seller account and list them. It only takes a few minutes.

  2. 2 TammyT said at 10:29 am on December 15th, 2008:

    That’s an interesting idea. I’m not sure how it would work, technically, though. How can “take back” a file?

  3. 3 Alex said at 11:58 am on December 15th, 2008:

    I understand that I can list them for sale myself. Here I am less interested in selling my books than saving space by replacing books with electronic copies.

    Essentially, I’d like to replace a number of my old books with electronic copies. I believe there are already services out there that will scan books for me and provide me with electronic versions. That tends to be an expensive, slow process.

    I would like the idea of just sending Amazon a book and receiving in exchange version of the book for the Kindle. I don’t much care what they do with the old book. Well, as long as they don’t send it back. :)

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