A lot of the people I know who own Kindles never connect it to their computers. They literally obtain everything via Amazon or via Amazon's conversion services.

A lot of the people I know who own Kindles never connect it to their computers. They literally obtain everything via Amazon or via Amazon's conversion services. EDIT: now that I think about it, Kindles don't come with power adapters anymore, do they? So users would probably still be connecting the Kindles for charging purposes.