Kindle most wished for Christmas Gift

Tech it to the max: great gift ideas

From ebooks and music players, to smartphones and computer gizmos, there's gadgets for all – but it pays to research before you buy
From http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/dec/02/technology-gadgets-for-christmas

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In the US, Amazon says the Kindle ebook reader is its most wished for, and most gifted, product. Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images
If you're planning to give someone a gadget or gizmo for Christmas, be careful, or, if you can't manage that, at least make it cheap. Gadget geeks tend to know what they want, and they can be unreasonably fussy about what are, to rational people, minor differences in specification. But if you do want to surprise someone with a tech gift, there are plenty of options.

One is the Kindle ebook reader, which Amazon.com – the US-based version of the shopping site – says is "the most wished for, the most gifted, and the number one bestselling product across all product categories on Amazon". It hasn't taken off in the UK, because the original version wasn't available here, and the newer, $259 model has only been shipping to the UK for about a month. Why the delay? The system is based on the idea you can buy books from Amazon and they arrive on the Kindle, so it needs access to a mobile phone network. (You're not charged separately for this.)