Category: Kindle Reader
Worldreader.org: A Library at your Fingertips
Worldreader.org is a nonprofit organization that provides e-book readers such as the Kindle for children in poorer areas who have limited access to books and libraries. Their first trial took…
Scribd mega catalog only “two clicks” away for Kindle users
Amidst the price wars of content between Amazon and Apple, Scribd, the giant content sharing site, has launched a program to make its 10 million books, articles and documents compatible…
Tech savvy college students and campus librarians embrace Kindle as way of future for textbooks
The transition to electronic textbooks, once thought to the next big boon for publishers, is meeting with surprising resistance among students and professors. Studies conducted on the Kindle DX at…
See Your Notes and Highlights Online
If you’ve made notes or highlights in your Kindle books, you can now see them online at http://kindle.amazon.com/ At the moment the service if quite limited. You can see your…
Wireless Data Costs – Kindle Economics #1
Recently MediaShift blog mentioned some interesting numbers related to Kindle wireless data pricing: > Avg. file size = 1.2MB > Bandwidth cost = 12 cents MB > Selling price =…
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…
Kindle Warranty
I just had to exercise warranty on my Kindle 2. Hence the reduction of the number of posts on this blog… The quality of the warranty service was a very…
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…
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…
XKCD Comic About Amazon Kindle
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…