Month: October 2016
Introducing Amazon Coins: A Digital Currency for Kindle Fire Owners
Amazon’s most recent Kindle Fire marketing effort is the introduction of Amazon Coins. They’ve released their own digital currency that can be used to purchase apps and games from the…
Amazon Joins With HTC to Enter Smartphone Market
It appears that the long-rumored Amazon smartphone will become a reality at some point in 2014. We have heard talk and speculation about it since as early as 2011, but…
Amazon’s Updated Kindle Line Adds HDX For an Even Better Selection
At this time Amazon has expanded their hardware offerings to include three types of Kindle. The Kindle eReader is still going strong, while the Kindle Fire HD and new Kindle…
Tablets Help Visually Impaired Readers Read More Quickly
Before e readers and tablets came around, blind and visually impaired readers had to rely on braille, large-print, or audiobooks. Now, the visually impaired can use a Kindle or other…
Daily Deals: a lot of books and a game
Today Amazon offers The Shadow Hunter by Michael Prescott just for $1.99. Abby Sinclair deals in risk assessment—but it’s lives, not fortunes, that are at stake. The Los Angeles investigator goes undercover to…
Reviewing ColcaSac Uintah for the Kindle Fire
I recently got the opportunity to try out a ColcaSac sleeve for my Kindle Fire and thought that it might be useful to share my thoughts. It’s proven to be…
Daily Deals: My Mother Was Nuts, Three “Horrid Henry” Books and Velocispider
Today Amazon offers My Mother Was Nuts by Penny Marshall just for $1.99 Most people know Penny Marshall as the director of Big and A League of Their Own. What they don’t…
Amazon Prime Monthly Option Silently Added in US
While it won’t show up for everybody just yet, some people are beginning to see a new option for Amazon Prime subscriptions. Instead of the long-running annual fee option, it…
Kindle Fire Accessory Review: Plantronics BackBeat 216 Stereo Headphones w/ Inline Mic
I was recently offered the chance to try out a pair of Plantronics BackBeat 216 headphones and figured they were worth a shot. The Kindle Fire practically demanded good headphones…
Daily Deals: Amazing Gracie, The Willoughbys and Doodle Sprint Fly and Jump
Today Amazon offers Amazing Gracie: A Dog’s Tale by Dan Dye, Mark Beckloff just for $1.99. It was love at first sight. Amid the frenzied barking and prancing of a house full of…