Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Update on Kindle for Soldiers

****************Amazon has yet to get back to me on the question of "is there a way to give a gift of a "pre-loaded" Kindle, or does Amazon coordinate with carepackages for soldiers....

The way Kindle works is that it must be tied to an account with a credit card....one account can have 6 devices on it, but all devices have the rights to buy books, so I can do one of two things...

Give a soldier a Kindle and have he or she load up their own books while they are already in the field (bad)

...or

Give a soldier a Kindle attached to my account (worse)

But there is a third option! Target a particular soldier who is about to do their rotation, buy he or she a Kindle and ship it to them..with a $100 amazon gift card as well in which they can load their Kindle with at least 10 books (and of course there are 1 million free books as well--everything written before 1922 is free) And a hard plastic case with it as well...

So Mom, if you want to bring this up at Saddleback, please do, or maybe Jeff Barrett wants one, I would be happy to donate it to him as well.......


5 comments:

Let Freedom Ring said...

I am in for giving one to Jeff Barrett who will be heading to Afghanistan this coming August. What an amazing thing to do for any of our troops but particularly for a member of the family. Let's get it going asap. Love you for doing this Garrett...........awesome.

Love ya, Susan

P.S. Maybe we can give it to Jeff when, hopefully we all make it to camp this summer in N.H. before Jeff leaves.

Brett said...

Gar,

The gift card option is clearly the best. Don't forget that those who are already over there can easily download books through USB - they don't need Whispernet (which is probably unavailable).

Brett

dole2obama said...

Big guy- great work here! I was thinking that we can contact our local armed forces recruiting center to get a list of soldiers (from your area or the south bay) that would like a kindle. Take the list to your church/work/social group etc, to expand the people that would like to buy a kindle and the $100 gift card. Perhaps you can put out a mock up of a brochure or flier to explain to people how they can give and how easy it is to do.

Grandma Dee said...

Great idea, Garrett, and great input, Matt. Teamwork. I am all for the idea of giving one to Jeff Barrett, too. Let us know how we can participate.
Love,
Denise

Paula said...

I will get you the E-mail of the Marine coordinator at our church and let's see if we can make this work! I love it! Hugs, Mom