Author: Dzmitry
Arthur C. Clarke, Good Kindle Books at a Glance #7
Arthur C. Clarke, one of the “Big Three” along with Robert A. Heinlein and Isaac Asimov, is most famous for his work 2001: A Space Odyssey. Based on the author’s…
Amazon Kindling Made Of Wood, Holds 120 Words
Couldn’t resist posting this picture of wooden Kindle. Folks at Incredible Stuff I Made with some help from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories created it. Enjoy! Until May 20th, 2009 you…
Kindle Book Count – March & April 2009
I’ve been counting books in Kindle Store on a daily basis and now the time to share results: When I first started counting on the 2nd of March 2009 there…
Kindle Infinite Reboot When Updating
I’ve received several messages from people who try to install an update or a hack (for example Unicode Font Hack) and Kindle enters infinite install update-fail-reboot cycle. Some believe that…
Isaac Asimov, Good Kindle Books at a Glance #6
If you like science fiction, such name as Isaac Asimov is most probably familiar to you. Foundation series is the most famous work by Asimov; it was the winner of the Hugo Award for “Best…
Kindle DX, now with 9.7″ screen
Remember me speculating about 9.7″ screen in Kindle 3? Well, the only difference is that it’s called Kindle DX! Today Amazon announced availability of Kindle DX: Amazon’s 9.7″ Wireless Reading…
Amazon Acquires Lexcycle
Recently Amazon has acquired Lexcycle, a company that created Stanza e-book reader application for iPhone and PC. In official statement Amazon claims that they’ll keep Stanza development independent and this…
Robert A. Heinlein, Good Kindle Books at a Glance #5
Many books by the famous science fiction writer, Robert Anson Heinlein, are available now in Kindle edition. One of my favorite is “Double Star”, narrating a story about a talented, yet…
Kindle Software 2.0.3 (327610024)
Kindle software update version 2.0.3 is being rolled out over the WhisperNet. I decided not to wait for the automated installation to fail because I have font hack and Savory…
Free Kindle 2 Contest Summary
Several folks have asked me what happened to the Free Kindle 2 Contest. I have little excuse other than being lazy but here it goes now: Kindle 2 went to…