Thinking of buying a Kindle? Well, check where you live to see if its wireless connection will work. See those white areas? Live in one of those and you’re out of luck. (Which pretty much rules out 90% of my state of Nebraska and 99% of Wyoming and Montana. And those are just the worst examples.)
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Michael Sauers is the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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Cool – thanks for the info and map – I didn’t realize there were some areas where the Kindle doesn’t work! I noticed that it does not work in most of North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska, as well as several states in the west. However, one thing that DID surprise me is that it shows it will work in much of western Kansas, which is a fairly isolated/non-populated area. I wonder what’s going on there, that it works there, but other areas that are much more populated, such as certain spots in the eastern U.S. don’t have coverage. Any ideas?
Sprint EVDO network. If it’s not there, neither in Kindle.