Author: Dzmitry
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…
June 2009 Summary
There were 294,881 books at the end of May 2009 and 312,591 books at the end of June 2009. So 17,710 books were added to Kindle Book Store during June.…
Kindle DX Sold Out
I recently checked Kindle DX product page at Amazon.com and surpirse -surpise! It’s sold out for another 4-6 weeks. Kindle 2 is still readily available for overnight shipment. It looks…
Airplane didn’t brick my Kindle this time
Recently I took another transatlantic flight with my family. I was reading Wolves Of Calla on Kindle DX, my wife was reading Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy on Kindle 2.…
Foreign Affairs and Detroit Free Press on Kindle
According to official Amazon Kindle Blog two good periodicals are not available for subscription on Kindle: Since its founding in 1922, Foreign Affairs has been a leading forum for serious discussion of…
Agatha Christie, Good Kindle Books at a Glance #17
Agatha Christie is often referred as the “Queen of Crime”, due to the crime novels and short stories featuring the famous detectives Hercule Poirot and and Miss Jane Marple. Lots…
Amazon Kindle in more libraries
In May I wrote a post about library usage of Amazon Kindle. Recently Lone Wolf Librarian did a more thorough search and uncovered at least 15 libraries that lend Kindle…
Kindle 2 Drop Test
While I’m on the topic – here’s Kindle 2 drop tested the same way as other Kindles – 30″ on some kind of hard surface. Click on the image to…