Month: March 2009
Reflashing Kindle 2 with custom firmware may soon be a reality.
It looks like Jesse Vincent has found a way to re-flash Kindle 2 with custom hand-made firmwares. At the moment he’s not uncovering any details of the process. Hopefully, he…
Free Kindle 2 Contests
There are several Kindle 2 giveaways going on in the blogosphere currently. Usually requirements to enter are subscribing to the post or posting something. You can try your luck in…
Free Kindle Book: Murder in the Marais
Just a heads up on current amazon promotion running until March 9, 2009. I’ll mak a habbit of regularly updating on this topic which I have recently neglected. If you…
Kindle For iPhone and iPod Touch
As if recent release of Kindle 2 wasn’t enough… Kindle for iPhone application was just released to iTunes marketplace and is available for download! What it does is it brings…
March 2009 One Dollar Kindle Book – Empress By Karen Miller
While this is technically not free, costing $1 comes pretty close to it. Book publisher Orbit is running a promotion allowing Kindle owners to download one of their books per…
XKCD Comic About Amazon Kindle
XKCD, “A Webcomic Of Romance, Sarcasm, Math, And Language” recently did a comic about Kindle which I couldn’t resist posting here especially since it mentions a book that I’m very…
23K+ Free Kindle Books at munseys.com
Another good place to download free books for your Amazon Kindle is http://www.munseys.com/. Main website itself is a bit heavy for Kindle Basic Web to render so you can use…
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…
Kindle 2 Disassembled
Folks from iFixIt.com have disassembled Kindle 2 and here is brief scoop of what they’ve found: Battery used is 3.7V 1530mAh Li-Pol battery model number S11S01A. It weights 1.1 oz…
Free Kindle Books From Amazon
This is the second post in the Free Kindle Books series… It so happens that there are 4,800+ books that Amazon.com has made available for Kindle owners to download for…