Entries Tagged as 'Amazon'

Monday, May 17th, 2010

I’m reading Kindle more than ever, but it’s not what you think!

That’s right. I’m reading my Kindle constantly. In fact, I’m reading it more than I ever did before. I use to read my Kindle several times a week, and now I read it many times a day. You might now be wondering what in the world caused such a dramatic increase in the use of [...]

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Amazon releases Kindle for Mac!

The day has finally arrived, that Mac users can now enjoy their Kindle eBook purchases on their desktop computer screens. Amazon has released Kindle for Mac. This complements the existing Windows and iPhone Kindle applications. All of these applications are free to download, and any purchased eBooks are synchronized between all of them on demand, [...]

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

A look at Amazon Kindle firmware 2.3

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 [...]

Monday, May 4th, 2009

Kindle 3 Approaching?

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 [...]

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Kindle 2 Hack Roundup

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 [...]

Monday, April 27th, 2009

Amazon acquires the company behind Stanza for iPhone

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 [...]

Monday, April 27th, 2009

Kindle OS 2.0.3 (327610024) Update Pushed Out

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 [...]

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

Kindle is for all ages!

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 [...]

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

Illustrated Cookbook does it right!

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 [...]

Monday, March 9th, 2009

Excellent List of Kindle 2 Tips, Tricks, and Hacks

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!