Category: Kindle Thoughts
Kindle Subscriptions Readability Expanded
On October 22nd, Amazon(NASDAQ:AMZN) announced that they will be adding a bit of expanded functionality to their Kindle reading platform. Much as book are currently able to be shared between…
Amazon Announces Lending Feature for Kindle
The moment we have all been waiting for has finally arrived. Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has finally announced plans to allow Kindle book sharing among Kindle users. Like the Nook, the…
Kindle, Now With Zork!
There was quite a stir recently when the Kindle started offering games up for user consumption. Even more so because they were actually well done, in general! I’ve played around…
Amazon Considering Other Gadgets
Reports have been swirling around this past week that Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) is supposedly considering creating other gadgets to sell along with the Kindle and Kindle DX. This would be one…
Kindle Ownership: Personal Reflections
I’ve used eReaders for a long time now, and enjoyed them since the start, but the overall pattern of my reading didn’t really change much until I got my Kindle.…
Kindle Reading Speed Study: Badly Misunderstood
For the past week or so, blogs like ours here have been buzzing with thoughts about a study done of relative reading speeds between the Kindle, iPad, PC Monitor and…
Should Amazon Create a “Paperback” Kindle?
Soth Godin, a blogger and author suggests that Amazon should create a “paperback” version of the Kindle. Hypothetically speaking, this inexpensive device would only include the bare bones and cost…
When do eBooks out-“Green” paperbacks?
This has been a question that I’ve been wondering about for some time. As an avid reader with a habit of finishing at least a book or two per week,…
Living in the future
I know it hasn’t occurred to me alone, partly because I have seen the idea expressed by others before, but I think we often overlook the wonderful fact that we…
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.…