Author: Dzmitry
Onyx Boox revealed at CeBIT 2009
Onyx International presented Onyx Boox e-reader at CeBIT 2009. Endgadget has video and some photos of the device. Current plans are for it to start shipping to US customers around…
Kindle Battery Charger – Run Your Kindle On AA Batteries
Electronic gadgets are nice but until Witricity goes commercial there is this annoying need to recharge the things. And even when it does I doubt there will be many Witricity…
Kindle Software Update 2.0.1 (303870012)
Today my Kindle 2 updated itself to 2.0.1 (303870012) without even me noticing it. I had very hard time figuring out what this update is about since it’s not officially…
Updating Kindle Firmware
After my last post about custom Kindle firmwares possibly making appearance soon, I received several emails with questions on how official firmware updates should be applied. Indeed there is very…
Free Science Fiction Books From Random House
According to Amazon Blog, following Kindle books by Random House will be available for free until May 31, 2009: Settling Accounts Return Engagement by Harry Turtledove. “In this well-thought-out alternate…
Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America
A while ago I heard a piece on NPR on this book about books, and it really grabbed my attention. I even spent 10 minutes sitting in my car in…
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…