Robert A. Heinlein, Good Kindle Books at a Glance #5
Many books by the famous science fiction writer, Robert Anson Heinlein, are available now in Kindle edition. One of my favorite is “Double Star”, narrating a story about a talented, yet…
Kindle Software 2.0.3 (327610024)
Kindle software update version 2.0.3 is being rolled out over the WhisperNet. I decided not to wait for the automated installation to fail because I have font hack and Savory…
Free Kindle 2 Contest Summary
Several folks have asked me what happened to the Free Kindle 2 Contest. I have little excuse other than being lazy but here it goes now: Kindle 2 went to…
If Amazon Bans Your Account You Lose Access to Kindle Store
Interesting Kindle 2 related story is developing in MobileRead Forums. In a nutshell – Amazon customer had his account banned for allegedly excessive returns of expensive electronics. That would have…
ePub and PDF support
To view ePub of PDF files on your Amazon Kindle normally you would need to use Amazon email conversion service (either free of $0.10 per document) or you could convert…
Unicode Fonts for Kindle 2 v0.1
Patches were tested by several volunteers and all results were positive. The patch works and doesn’t cause any problems. You can now read books on your Amazon Kindle 2 in…
F.Scott Fitzgerald, Good Kindle Books at a Glance #4
If you followed the Academy Awards ceremony this year, you must have heard about The Curious Case of Benjamin Button nominated for Best Picture. The movie was inspired by a…
Cyrillic Kindle – Beta testers needed!
Update: Testing is completed. You can download release version of the hack here: Kindle Fonts Hack. After quite a bit of tweaking I was able to create a patch that…
Airplane Bricked My Kindle 2
Recently I had to take a couple of long trips on airplanes. And supposedly Amazon Kindle is just perfect for such occasions. I stuffed mine with tons of books and…
Kindle 2 Contest winning date is set
I just performed my everyday 0:01am check and I see 256,806 books available in the Amazon Kindle store. It means that the winning date is March 31st, 2009 (03/31/2009)! Now…