Month: July 2010
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Trilogy by Stieg Larsson
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by the late Swedish author Stieg Larsson, dominated the #1 spot on the Kindle bestseller list for a long time, and has maintained a…
The Onion for Kindle
The Onion is a weekly newspaper offered on the Kindle and Kindle DX for $2.49. The current editor of The Onion is Joe Randazzo, and their website is updated daily. …
Kindle in the Classroom Results
As pilot programs at seven universities around the country wrap up their evaluations of the Kindle DX as a viable teaching tool and textbook alternative, we see pretty much the…
Kindle Patent Finally Goes Through
As many of you will remember, the original Kindle design was a bit heavier, a bit clunkier, and had a small screen next to the main one for utility. Well,…
Kindle Ownership: Personal Reflections
I’ve used eReaders for a long time now, and enjoyed them since the start, but the overall pattern of my reading didn’t really change much until I got my Kindle.…
iRiver Launches New E-reader device
iRiver has announced a new e-book reader that looks a whole lot like the Kindle 2 with its white cover, grayscale screen and keyboard. It is called the iRiver Wi-Fi…
Kindle Under Attack From Discovery
On Wednesday, Discovery Patent Holdings LLC filed a lawsuit against Amazon(NASDAQ:AMZN) over the use of technology related to the distribution of, and securing of, digital texts that Discovery feels falls…
Best of the Beatles and more Guitar Books for Kindle
To all of you Beatles fans out there, there is acoustic guitar lesson book available for Kindle with the new audio feature enabled. It is called Best of the Beatles…
Kindle HTML5 Previewer
Amazon(NASDAQ:AMZN) has recently announced the Kindle Previewer, a feature that will allow users to sample the texts of interesting eBooks directly through the main Amazon web site without recourse to…
Musicals for Kindle
There are a lot of music books with sheet music available on Kindle now with the audio and video feature enabled. If you are interested in musicals and play the…