Kindle work around

If you still prefer Kindle's ink display and like to use one in this island, there is work around.

Getting a Kindle is easy. You can use VPOST, Comgateway or Borderlinx to ship the kindle to you.
After you got your Kindle, here comes the tricky part.



To begin buying ebooks, you need to get ready the following ;

1) VPN service to US - You can use any VPN as long as the end point is in US. Free VPNs like OpenVPN and securityKISS work fine.

2) US address - You can use the US address from VPOST, Comgateway or Borderlinx.

3) 2 Amazon account - one account with local address registered and the other with US address registered.



After you have the above items ready, you are set to make your purchase.

1) Login into the Amazon account with local address registered. Buy the Amazon gift card for Kindle store and send the gift card via email to your Amazon account with US address registered. After you have send the gift card, logout of the Amazon account with local address registered.

2) Launch the VPN service. To confirm that you now have the US ip address, open IE and goto http://whatismyipaddress.com/ or http://www.ip2location.com. You should see that you now have a US ip address.

3) Login into the Amazon account with US address registered. You should be able to see Kindle's ebooks llisting. Continue to buy your ebook using the Amazon gift card. When you check out, Amazon will might ask you for your billing address. As you are using gift card, billing address is not critical. Select or key in the US address you registered earlier.

4) After you make your purchase. Download the ebook to your Kindle via USB. Do not use Amazon Whispernet to download.

5) After you have download the ebook to your Kindle logout of your Amazon account with US address registered and disconnect your VPN.


Always remember, DO NOT login to your Amazon account with US address registered outside US. Amazon might tracks that you are not in US to access the ebook content. To download ebooks into Kindle app on iPad or iPhone, you will also need to turn on VPN on your iPad/iPhone first.