Look at how many awesome tools we now have to keep ourselves stocked with high-quality reading material: Instapaper and Read It Later are great services if you’ve found an article you want to save for later; Readability and Readable do a great job of stripping out bad design elements and ads so you can focus [...]
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eReaderIQ now has a Kindle friendly mobile site
I find a lot of bargain books by just browsing through the Kindle store all the time, but I also sometimes find them from eReaderIQ. In the past I’ve recommended it to track the price of individual books, and it’s still great for that. But the site also lists all price drops on the Kindle [...]
Kindlebility is yet another way to send articles to your Kindle
Kindlebility lets you add a bookmark to your browser that will send any page you’re viewing to your Amazon Kindle email address.
How to hide those 100 classics that came with your Kobo
If you own a Kobo, and if you read any of the instructions that came with it, you probably already know how to hide the preloaded public domain titles from displaying amongst your own books. But really, I’ve never met a “normal” person who reads user manuals, so odds are high that you have no [...]
EPUBReader turns Firefox into… an epub reader!
The free Firefox add-on EPUBReader is one of the easiest to use ebook tools for a web browser that I’ve ever found. It’s been around a while, and I’m a little surprised I haven’t written about it before because I use it at least a couple of times every month. I like add-ons that you [...]
Using Amazon Cloud Drive to store ebooks
Does Amazon’s new Cloud Drive online storage service play well with the Kindle? I tested it out on the first day, and the short answer is yes, but for now not very well.
Two more ways to get websites onto your Kindle
Nate at The Digital Reader has recently found two new websites that let you turn online content into ereader content. The first, NEWSTOEBOOK.COM, will take an RSS feed and convert it into either an epub (Nook/Kobo) or mobi (Kindle) file. The other one, SENDtoREADER (what’s with all these caps?), provides a bookmarklet that you click [...]
Turn your Kindle into a universal translator with Kindlefish
Visiting another country anytime soon? Bring your Kindle — a new website lets you use the Kindle’s free 3G connection to quickly translate phrases into over 50 different languages.
How to spot a pirate ebook site
Let’s assume you don’t want to download a pirated copy of an ebook, but you’re still the type of consumer who wants a good bargain. As you look around the web for ebook sources, you’ll sometimes come across websites that charge a flat fee for limitless downloads. There’s no mention of torrents, and it’s not [...]
50+ useful websites for Kindle owners
There are plenty of resources online for the Kindle owner, but if you rely solely on Google to find them you’ll miss out on some good stuff. Here’s a list of 51 Kindle blogs, tools, and communities where you can find great Kindle-related info. I know this is a quality list because Booksprung is named [...]
Run-KindleGen workflow updated
Last October I posted about an Automator workflow for KindleGen. (Warning: Mac geek speak forthcoming.) I was pretty proud of it, but it had a bug, which is that it couldn’t handle spaces in the file’s path. For example, if your epub file is located in a folder named “Sparkly Vampire Novel,” which we both [...]
Kindle 3 has free Wi-Fi access at AT&T hotspots
Hmm, this feature may have been around for a while and I’m just now noticing it, in which case I feel like an idiot. At any rate, did you know that your Kindle can connect for free to AT&T wireless hotspots without requring any logins, checkboxes or agreement buttons? You have to manually select the [...]