Amazon has finally released an update for the Kindle with version number 2.3. This update comes over 6 months after the release of bug patch firmware version 2.0.3. This is the first firmware update for existing and new Kindle 2 (US Wireless), Kindle DX, and Kindle 2 (Global Wireless) users that actually adds features (unlike [...]
There are all sorts of rumors lately, about Amazon possibly releasing the Kindle 3 (or Kindle Student) any day. Even the a writer at the Wall Street Journal recently wrote about the impending release of a larger format Kindle (ideal for newspaper reading).
If this is true, those of us who purchased the Kindle 2 only [...]
Hacking the Kindle to get it to do more than it was intended is certainly not a new thing, but lately it seems to be much more possible. The Director of the Kindle at Amazon is even publicly open to people hacking and reverse engineering the Kindle to extend its functionality. Here is a round [...]
Amazon has recently acquired LexCycle, the company who built the leading free eBook application on the iPhone called Stanza.
Stanza aggregates content from multiple free and paid eBook providers, and made it very easy to discover, organize, and read content on the Apple iPhone. In recent times, Amazon released Kindle for iPhone, which allows you to [...]
Reported by blog kindle last week, Amazon released a small update to the Kindle operating system as version 2.0.3, which by now your Kindles should have automatically upgraded to. blog kindle reports that the update only appears to have minor bug fixes but nothing visually has appeared to have changed. They also note that if [...]
One of the things I recently noticed recently on Amazon’s Kindle forum, was a posting by a user nicknamed bbug asking for the ages of Kindle users. Granted, the posting is quite old, and most of the respondents were Kindle 1 users. Even initially, I bypassed the posting altogether until something caught my eye:
There were [...]
A Kindle book titled “The Cook’s Illustrated How-to-Cook Library: An illustrated step-by-step guide to Foolproof Cooking” was formatted to really shine on the Kindle. Not only is it a great cookbook filled with meaningful recipes and instructions (rather than a TON of mediocre ones), it feels like it was designed for the Kindle.
A couple of [...]
iReaderReview has put up an excellent collection of tips, tricks, and hacks for the Kindle 2. Rather than attempt to build my own list, go check out their posting.
Excellent work guys!
I was working on my MacBook Pro furiously trying to get some work done, and I glance over to my Kindle 2 sitting next to me. It was telling me that it was downloading an update!
Obviously excited, I took a few pictures of it on my iPhone.
I don’t have the details at this very moment, [...]
Not long after Amazon announced that they would be making the Whispernet (Amazon’s wireless eBook store and delivery platform) available for mobile phones, Amazon today released Kindle for iPhone. While not as feature rich as the actual Kindle and Kindle 2 hardware devices, Kindle for iPhone is Amazon’s competitive response to Stanza, a leading free [...]
