According to a press release today on Staples.com, the office supply store chain plans to carry the Amazon Kindle in all of its stores “beginning this fall” (kind of vague, I know). For anyone who is on the fence about … Continue reading
This is a little tutorial on how I go about making screen-saver images for my Kindle. These can be used to replace (or add to) the so-called “dead author” screen-saver (a.k.a. sleep screen) images that come with your Kindle. To … Continue reading
If you do a little Googling or blog trawling, you’ll likely find people lamenting how e-books do not have the look, feel, and even smell of traditional paper books, suggesting that this somehow diminishes the reading experience for them. You … Continue reading
Just a quick post to bring you a video demo of the new voice option for the menu system of the new Kindle 3. Thanks to “Varin” at the KindleBoards.com forums for posting it. As I mentioned before, hopefully this … Continue reading
According to an Amazon press release today, if you were among those who pre-ordered your Kindle 3 and are lucky enough to be at the top of their “list”, it may already be shipped — two days ahead of schedule. … Continue reading
Inspired by a discussion at KindleBoards.com, I decided to post something here to do whatever I can to get the works of the late Roger Zelazny onto the Kindle. Mr. Zelazny is one of my two all-time favorite authors, along … Continue reading
My intent in this forum as far as book reviews goes was to limit them to positive reviews, i.e. reading recommendations. As I have not read anything recently that I can strongly recommend, I thought I’d give a brief rundown … Continue reading
Amazon announced today another exclusive Kindle e-book deal, this time with Monster.com for the book Six Fundamentals to Building a Lifelong Career by Douglas Hardy. According to Amazon’s press release, Amazon.com will have sole rights to sell this e-book for … Continue reading