Month: July 2009
Dark Tower series – Not so good (IMHO) Kindle books at a glance
First I would like to state that this post constitutes my humble opinion and nothing more. You may consider it wrong, it may be wrong, I respect Stephen King fans…
Kindle 2 Price Drop
Here’s a piece of news most of you were waiting for! How do I know? Well, on a daily basis I check list of search keywords that you used to…
Kindle DX second impressions
After using Kindle DX for a while I would like to add to my first impressions. In my original review I’ve described large screen as more of a disadvantage because…
Kindle Books Coming to New Devices
Amazon Chief Executive, Jeff Bezos, has made clear the company’s intention to bring the Kindle’s eBook store to more devices. Apparently, Amazon views the Kindle and the bookstore as two…
Possible Future for Braille eReaders
In regards to the lawsuit against Arizona State University, over the Kindle DX‘s inaccessibility for blind people, a quick search for braille eReaders brought up this prototype design. Unfortunately, no…
Interead’s COOL-ER eReader
Interead’s attempt at a Kindle-killer, the COOL-ER reader, begins shipping this month. Designed in a style that clearly mimics the iPod Nano, it seems that Interead hopes to fill the…
Kindle DX crashed in PDF viewer
Looks like I’ve found a bug in Kindle DX PDF viewer: any time I open the second page of this PDF file Kindle DX would go into quick reboot. When…
Kindle version of BlogKindle.com fixed
I was just informed that people who subscribed to this blog via Kindle Store were getting snippets instead of full articles. This was an unexpected side effect of me upgrading…
Download PDFs to Kindle DX Directly
Although Amazon added native support for PDF to Kindle DX they didn’t add the ability to download these directly from the Internet. I believe that this feature was left out…
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…