What would be the first thing to load onto your new Amazon Kindle?

Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

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Magic Quadrant

Along with being a book viewer and an MP3 player, the Kindle includes a PDF reader, which allows the user to look at Acrobat documents. So if you ever have a dull moment, why not check out Gartner's Magic Quadrant to see why the Kindle is king.

UK users can now buy the Amazon Kindle e-book reader, which not only stores books, but can render Acrobat PDF files and play MP3 audio. Computer Weekly's tech guru Cliff Saran takes at look at what is available, and what he would upload to make Kindle really useful.

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