The download of my first book was very simple and fast. I've been happy with the way the kindle reads. It seems like you're holding an old fashioned paper book. The only problem that I've experienced is that today when I turned it on it had returned to the beginning of the book and refused to take me to the last page I read. I had to skip from the beginning through to refind my position. That was disappointing, but perhaps it was operator error. I'll re-read the instructions. Otherwise, I love it.