My fiancĂ© just purchased the Kindle II for me. I absolutely love it! I read one to three books a week and books have 400 to 600 pages each. They are awkward and can be darn heavy. On the other hand my Kindle only weighs 6oz…
It holds 1500 books, it takes less than 60 seconds or less to download any Book, magazine, Newspaper and I can read any PDF file. WTF (my fiancĂ©) also purchased the Leather kindle cover as well as the detachable light! You see as much as I read, well we are running out of space. Too many bookshelves. Too many boxes. Well, no longer. Oh! By the way, it is very thin only a 1/4 inch, 8” tall and 51/4 wide. It comes with the Kindle 2 User’s guide 2nd Edition. Heck I can even go to fluther.com and read the comments. Whether That was a fluke? I can’t say for sure. But I can say, is that I was able to read Q&A’s. This kindle is awesome. I can’t tell you how happy I am that I have this. I take it everywhere I go. Gosh, I love WTF! As for your question whether you should get one for your dad? I say, MOST DEFINITELY!