How does Kindle reader work/

Hi Thinking of getting my Mrs a kindle reader for Crimbo and was just wondering do you need to do any type of hack to it to use shares.
How do you put new books on that have been downloaded? ie. is it easy?
cheers
Baz
Answer #1
Here are step-by-step for tutorial for transferring files from PC to Kindle:
http://www.ehow.com/how_8257938_transfer-pc-kindle.html
For Kindle 2 follow this: http://www.ehow.com/how_6458087_transfer-ebooks-kindle-2.html

Answer #2
Thanks Mate