The Amazon Kindle International Version is now shipping, and the first devices are arriving in the UK.  What’s interesting is not just the early user reviews of the device, but also some of the little things that aren’t quite as expected…

Firstly, Darren Griffin (better known from his work at Pocket GPS World) has written his review of his Kindle which arrived yesterday here, but what’s more interesting is that last night he sent a message via twitter confirming that although the web browser doesn’t allow general web access (we already knew this, as we covered here), the ability to browse and read wikipedia is still available.  It’s also nice to see Darren’s discovered the additional utilities, such as Calibre, which we also covered last week, for providing additional content to the Kindle.

Now, last week, we thought the idea behind the WikiReader was very cool; a portable device with access to the wikipedia articles, but now we’re thinking that maybe the Kindle with it’s online access to the live wikipedia may prove a more compelling way of accessing the same information…

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