Category: Kindle 2

XKCD Comic About Amazon Kindle

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XKCD, “A Webcomic Of Romance, Sarcasm, Math, And Language” recently did a comic about Kindle which I couldn’t resist posting here especially since it mentions a book that I’m very…

Amazon would selectively disable Text-To-Speech

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Macworld reports that Amazon would allow copyright holders to disable text-to-speech feature which was introduced in 2nd generation Kindle. This seems to be part of the concession with the Authors…

Kindle 2 Disassembled

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Folks from iFixIt.com have disassembled Kindle 2 and here is brief scoop of what they’ve found: Battery used is 3.7V 1530mAh Li-Pol battery model number S11S01A. It weights 1.1 oz…

Gmail on Kindle

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It is perfectly possible to access your Gmail account using Amazon Kindle browser. All you need to do is visit the mobile version at http://m.gmail.com rather than full version. Loading…

Reset Kindle

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I’ve got several emails from users asking how to hard reset Kindle. For some reason Googling for it does little good. So I might just as well do a post…

Kindle 2 Easter Eggs

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I can’t believe that I never did a post about Kindle easter eggs. Here is the most complete one. I’ve checked them all one by one and here are the…

Received my Kindle 2

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I meant to publish this post yesterday but got carried away by other business. First of all – kudos to Amazon for timely shipment and large supply. I don’t think…

Kindle On eBay

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With Amazon Kindle 2 shipping in just a few days there is a lot of related activing on the internet auction eBay going on. There are Kindle 2s that actually…