CL <flothru@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 12/06/2011 10:59 PM, John W. wrote:

> > A couple of questions about the Amazon Kindle. First, are there any
> > Japanese language books available from Amazon in the US? I searched,
> > but I didn't see a way to search by the language of the book; and if
> > there are books, are there any rendering issues on the US-sold Kindle?
> > Second, does anyone here belong to Amazon Prime? Not sure if it's
> > really worth it or not; we don't typically buy new books, but get from
> > the library (or a used book store, sometimes), so the ability to
> > borrow is nice, especially since my library system doesn't offer e-
> > books in kindle format.

> All you need to do is to find whatever you want in the Amazon.jp web 
> pages and copy the number, name (in romaji), etc. to Amazon.com and 
> order it from them ... at least that's what you can do for physical 
> books.  If you pay by credit card for an e-book, I don't think you have 
> to be so location specific; just choose and D/L.

There are sometimes content restrictions (especially on music). You can
get around them by going to the amazon.jp site via some Japanese proxy.
Oddly, your US account will work fine that way.

Mike