For legal and licensing reasons, the Kindle is intended for sale to the US market. For that reason, it must be set up with US credentials (a US address and credit card). Americans traveling or living abroad are able to use their Kindles, but can not connect wirelessly. They are still able to buy books from a computer, and transfer them to the Kindle’s documents folder with the included USB cord. For details, see the "I don’t have whispernet access" discussion:You will not need a transformer for your Kindle, because it is a "universal voltage" device. It can charge in voltages from 100 to 240. You may need a plug adapter so that it will fit the holes of the electrical outlets.One complication is that some books have geographic restrictions, and will not allow themselves to be downloaded in specific countries. This is for legal and/or licensing reasons. This is rare in most countries, but may be common in certain areas. Amazon is a customer of a company named Quova, that offers a service of "geolocating" internet customers (and not just by IP address). This is the way we think it works:1. You set up your Kindle with an American address and credit card2. A publisher encodes a title so that it will block itself from being downloaded in certain countries (or outside of certain countries)3. You are outside the US and order a book4. Quova identifies your location5. The code in the book reacts to that location, and you get an error message about a "geographic restriction".This has not been stated by Amazon, but is a working hypothesis of what happens.One forum poster, who was on active duty, reported being able to contact Amazon and getting the geographc restriction removed. In that case, Quova hypothetically identified the user as being in a restricted country, and Amazon may have been able to override that for a US military base. This is just conjecture, though. Amazon has stated that it does want to sell in other countries, but has given no timeline.===============For more Frequently Asked Kindle Questions, please see:http://www.amazon.com/tag/kindle/forum/ref=cm_cd_ef_tft_tp?%5Fencoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx1D7SY3BVSESG&cdThread=Tx2ELH7RBF7D78R(Amazon thread relevant to the discussion)

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