I am thinking of buying the £89 kindle from Argos. I just have normal pc connection and not wifi. I presume I can still connect even though I am not wi fi connected.
Are you sure you don't have a wifi router? Most people do.
It's a lot less hassle to register the kindle on a wifi connection, and a heck of a lot less hassle and quicker to download your books via wifi.
Here in the U.S. the Kindle Touch with Wifi and 3G connectivity is only $30 U.S. more than the stand alone Wifi. Amazon pays for all the 3G charges and you can use it anywhere there's cell phone available. Works great and worth the money...
"Oh. Thank heavens for my eReader, then. All my ebooks on my pc in one library"
You can do that with a Kindle as well. But the advantage of the Kindle is that if you delete a book from it, it remains on your kindle account and you can re-download it from anywhere in the world without going near you PC.
I have a Kindle G3. It has the wifi built in. It costs £149, but I think it is worth it as you do not need a PC to use it or to download books. You can download your books, papers, periodicals etc wherever you are.
They have about 400,000 books in the shop. Some as cheap as 49p! In fact; some are free on special offers. The dearest I have paid is £9.99 for a £27 book. Most of them are just a couple of pounds.