I heard that you can read Wikipedia on the Kindle. Could you give me an impression about that function please? Does it work? Can you read only the English language edition of Wikipedia or are the +250 other language Wikipedias also available? Is the information live or are the providing Wikipedia from a backup? Best compare the main page on the Kindle with the online one to check that. The Kindle is for reading books and news. The Wikimedia Foundation has besides Wikipedia also projects like Wikinews, Wikibooks and Wikisource. Those are not available I suppose on the Kindle? And is reading Wikipedia on the Kindle really free of charge?

When you look at the Kindle keyboard, you’ll see a button called “Search”. Click that button, enter the word or phrase you’re looking for, and you’ll get the option to search Wikipedia, the Dictionary or the Web. Choose Wikipedia, and it’ll open the Web browser, and if there’s a page that matches your search, you’ll see that page. If there isn’t an exact match, you’ll get an option to choose from pages that might match your search.

Because Kindle’s EVDO service, called Whispernet, only works in the US at this point, Kindle natively searches the English version of the Dictionary and Wikipedia. If you want to access the other 250 languages on Wikipedia, you can use the Web browser. Web access is free, although I think you’re paying a little bit for it in the Kindle’s $400 price tag. :)

Wikinews, Wikibooks and Wikisource are all available in the Web browser.