Category: Kindle 2
Amazon Kindle 2 Growing in Popularity in China
Amazon Kindle is gaining immense popularity in China these days even though Kindle and Kindle 2 are not officially shipped there. While buying a Kindle online on Amazon Store, if you enter the…
E-Reader Market will Continue to Grow despite Launch of Tablets
According to Andrew Nusca’s article on potential growth in the e-book market following the Apple iPad launch, “the average e-reader is 47 years old, makes 75,000 a year and reads…
Kindle-based Vacation Planning?
In a rather interesting move, Amazon seems to have increased the general utility of their Kindle. It could, in fact, be on its way to becoming a must-have for vacation-goers…
Unicode Fonts Hack for Kindle 2.3
This updated version of Kindle Unicode Fonts Hack works on all versions of Kindle software including the most recent 2.3 and installs on Kindle 2 US, Kindle 2 International and…
Kindle Software 2.3 (399380047)
It definitely looks like I’ll have to eat my words… One month ago I made a statement that there will be fewer Kindle software updates and that chances of new…
Why there will be fewer Kindle firmware updates in the future
Personally I’m used to updating software. Pretty much every week one or another piece of software on my PC updates – be it Windows itself, the antivirus, iTunes or whatever.…
The Kindle as a Guilty Pleasure for Print Lovers
The Kindle, like all eReaders, is seen by many as a radical departure from traditional reading. The main reason why you aren’t surrounded by Kindles whenever you step into a…
International release of Kindle 2!
Well, my speculations actually came true and even sooner and on a much larger scale than I have expected: Kindle 2 World version is available for pre-orders and will start…
Kindle Price Drop… again!!!
In June Amazon dropped the price on Kindle 2 by $60.00 only 4 month after it was originally released. Today, 4 month later, Kindle 2 price dropped by another $40.00.…
Long Kindle battery life can spoil you
I’ve lent my refurbished Kindle 1 to a friend of mine to read some books and only a couple days later I’ve come to realize that since I’ve given him…