Highly recommended. The SFBags – Waterfield Travel Case for the Kindle is a well-made quality case for your Kindle. Plus the customer service is top notch.

A great source of e-book conversion utilities can be found at http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_conversion. There you will find various commercial, opensource and freeware programs that can handle file formats like LRF, CHM, LIT, HTML, PDF, RTF, PDB and DOC and convert them to formats that the Kindle can handle.

I’ve used the opensource Calibre EBook Management Software and can recommend it without hesitation. It’s available for Windows, Linux & the Apple  OS X platforms.

Amazon Kindle File Formats

• AZW
• TXT
• MOBI
• PRC

Note that Amazon offers its conversion via email service for the following file formats;

• Word DOC
• HTML
• JPEG
• TXT
• GIF
• PNG
• BMP
• PDF (experimental, results vary)

Software like earlier mentioned Calibre can handle additional formats, such as;

• CBZ
• CBR
• CBC
• CHM
• EPUB
• FB2
• LIT
• LRF
• ODT
• PDB
• PML
• RB
• RTF
• SNB
• TCR

Users who have experienced the ‘unexpected error message’ on their Kindle have reported that they were able to resolve the problem by either restarting the Kindle from the Settings Menu, or reseting the Kindle using the reset button on the back of the Kindle.