Month: June 2009
Symbol Keyboard Shortcuts gone from Kindle 2?
As I was comparing Kindle DX and Kindle 2 I’ve noticed that some of the keyboard shortcuts that originally worked in K2 now don’t. Pressing Alt-6 used to type question…
…First Kindle DX review
Ok, lets pick up where we left off: My Kindle DX has just arrived… … Post #301… Exterior & Ergonomics Kindle DX is much larger and slightly heavier than Kindle…
My Kindle DX has just arrived…
FedEx just delivered my Kindle DX! Stay tuned for hands-on review. It will come a bit later today… Coincidentally this is exactly 300th post on this blog.
Newspapers going digital in 20 years, textbooks – by August, 2009
Two interesting pieces of news surfaced recently: Rupert Murdoch, the chairman and chief executive of News Corporation, gave a speech on Sunday titled “The Future of Newspapers: Moving Beyond Dead…
Kindle DX starts shipping today.
Today Amazon starts shipping Kindle DX eBook readers. As of now the reader is still in stock and the if you order it within the next hour, Amazon promises that…
Smell Of Books
In case you have been missing that booky smell when you read eBooks on your Amazon Kindle – there is a solution for you – “An Aerosol E-Book Enhancer” now…
300,000+ books in the Kindle Store
I just noticed that as of 5th of June, 2009 Kindle store surpassed 300,000 books. I was about to brag about how close my prediction was when I noticed that…
George Orwell, Good Kindle Books at a Glance #12
George Orwell is a pen name of English author Eric Arthur Blair; he is most known for his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four and the concepts like “thought police” and “doublethink” derived…
Kindle Used By Library
Gerrit van Dyk from Shaping Libraries reports that his interlibrary loan office approved pilot program for loaning Amazon Kindles to faculty staff. The idea is to serve book requests that…
Aldous Huxley, Good Kindle Books at a Glance #11
Aldous Huxley’s books are often received with mixed emotions or even controversy. In 2006 Time magazine excluded Brave New World, Point Counter Point and Island from Best 100 novels list, which…