Category: Text-To-Speech
Kindle 3G: The Long Saga How I Bought Kindle 3G and Some First Impressions
Last weekend I spent in Best Buy, waiting for the world’s slowest customer associate to bring me Kindle Wi-Fi. During the [insert a large number here] minutes of me standing…
Kindle in Education
When I was in high school about 10 years ago, the only solution to avoid lugging around super heavy books was to make extra trips to your locker, or use…
Kindle 3 Cleared ADA Hurdle?
With the announce of the new and updated Kindle, Amazon(NASDAQ:AMZN) may have offhandedly and with little fanfare cleared away their largest hurdle to being considered a valid teaching tool. Earlier…
Audible Incentives
There are a lot of good reasons to pick up a Kindle. It’s neat to read, occasionally very useful for its ability to be a portable internet device, and it…
Kindle Educational Pilot Program Hits Roadblock
Amazon recently added the reading aloud feature to the Kindle and now the device will be able to read books out aloud so that e-texts are more easily accessible. This…
Kindle 2 Reads the Classics
A bit old but funny. A sketch from Late Night With Jimmy Fallon which has the Kindle 2 reading passages from The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe and Dreams of…
Arizona State University Being Sued For Discrimination Over Use of Kindle DX
Arizona State University is one of six schools of higher education that are planning to deploy the Kindle DX this fall. They are, however, coming under fire from both the…
Kindle Software Update 2.0.1 (303870012)
Today my Kindle 2 updated itself to 2.0.1 (303870012) without even me noticing it. I had very hard time figuring out what this update is about since it’s not officially…
Amazon would selectively disable Text-To-Speech
Macworld reports that Amazon would allow copyright holders to disable text-to-speech feature which was introduced in 2nd generation Kindle. This seems to be part of the concession with the Authors…