In one of those moments of questionable inspiration that hit me from time to time, I decided to figure out how to take the clippings file on my Kindle and convert it into something easier to browse and manipulate off-line … Continue reading
As was announced a few weeks ago, as of yesterday (June 28, 2011), Random House and Lucas Films have released the entire library of “Star Wars” books in e-book format (under both the Del Rey and Bantam imprints). A quick … Continue reading
Okay, so this does not really have anything to do with Kindles and only marginally with e-books, but… I was re-reading The Color of Magic (book #1 in Terry Pratchett’s “Discworld” collection) as one of this month’s reads in the … Continue reading
One of my all-time favorite books is coming back to Kindle in a couple days. Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman got together in the late 1980′s and decided to collaborate on a novel, the result being Good Omens: The Nice … Continue reading
In a bit of synchronicity with yesterday’s announcement from J.K. Rowling about Pottermore.com, Amazon.com today announced a new feature on their site targeting the popular “YA” (young adult) market: Essential Books for Young Adults. This new part of their on-line … Continue reading
If you are a Harry Potter fan and have not been disconnected from the internet for the last few weeks, you know that J.K. Rowling has been promising a “big” announcement this morning (7:00am EDT) about the adolescent wizard. There … Continue reading
2011-06-22: It appears the publisher has “fixed” these listings and they now have prices, although the “Prequel” is still listed as free. I just saw on Pixel of Ink that Joseph Delaney‘s “The Last Apprentice” fantasy series has ten Kindle … Continue reading
As many of my friends and family are probably all too aware, I am a big fan of Sir Terry Pratchett and his “Discworld” books. These books are not so much a series, as they are a collection of interrelated … Continue reading
(What follows is possibly one of the poorer examples of self-promotion you’ve seen lately.) I decided to make this blog available for subscription on your Kindle from Amazon. As someone who has little interest in reading blogs on my Kindle … Continue reading
I downloaded Wordoku Unbound #1 (currently only $0.99) to my Kindle earlier this week. Its blurb says, “Love Sudoku? And word games? Then you’ll love Wordoku. A fun twist on Sudoku, Wordoku puzzles use the letters of a word or … Continue reading