Entries Tagged as 'Books'

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

The Pragmatic Programmers Books are now available for Kindle

If you’re a Kindle owner, and you also happen to be a programmer or technical enthusiast, you’re going to be excited to know that The Pragmatic Programmers have released many of their eBook versions of their print releases in .MOBI format, which the Kindle and Kindle 2 will very happily understand. The eBooks look great [...]

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 of [...]

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

Free books to read on your new Kindle 2

Now that you’ve got that shiny new Kindle 2, and while you’re certainly going to buy books in the Kindle Store on Amazon, you want to supplement it with some free content. While this is not a comprehensive list, I wanted to give you some of the more popular sources of free Kindle books (and [...]