I know I just posted a link to 50 assorted ideas for covering your Kindle, but this one from someone named Ebony is worth the extra attention. His approach definitely requires patience and an eye for detail — you have carefully cut out each page individually, then glue them all together and smooth out the [...]
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Want to make your own ereader cover? Here are 50 ideas to get you started
The blog ebookcases.org has put together a fairly exhaustive list of DIY cases, covers, wraps and sleeves for your Kindle. (But really for any of the current major ereaders.) If you’re feeling up to a little hot glue and scissors action this weekend, you could probably find an idea worth exploring on the list. My [...]
Three online notepads that work with the Kindle
Here’s a quick review of three free notepad services that work fairly well with the Kindle 3′s web browser. Why would you want a notepad service? I get to that below, after the quick reviews. Jottit.com Features: 9 Kindle Web Display: 6 Kindle Article Display: 9 Click image to view more screens. My favorite service, [...]
Read Kindle books on your Linux PC
Andrei Pushkin at blogkindle.com has put together a short tutorial on how to get the Kindle for PC app running on his Ubuntu operating system. The solution, which you can probably guess if you’ve spent any time with Ubuntu or other Linux OSes, is to use Wine 1.3 or higher, which is a new enough [...]
An overview of Kindle Twitter solutions from The Digital Reader
The Digital Reader has put together a short list of Twitter clients that play well with the Kindle. If you’re a Kindle owner and a tweet-addicted Twitterer, you might find them helpful. “Kindle Twitter client round up” [The Digital Reader] (Photo: nada abdalla)
How to send web content directly to your Kindle
Yesterday Lifehacker told everyone about Send to Kindle, a new extension for the Chrome web browser that lets you email articles and blog posts directly to your Kindle. It’s a great tool, but not very useful if you don’t use Chrome. Here are some other easy ways to quickly send content to your Kindle from [...]
Gooseberry Patch giving away three mini-cookbooks for Kindle
UPDATE 23 August 2011: These titles are no longer free—see comment below. The cookbook publisher has three short titles, each with 25 recipes, posted for free on the Kindle Store. One covers mac & cheese, one covers meatloaf, and one covers chocolate chip cookies. For some reason, Gooseberry couldn’t figure out how to add a [...]
Yes, there are DRM-free ebooks on the Kindle Store
When the Kindle first came out, everything Amazon sold had digital rights management, or DRM, to prevent unauthorized copying. This DRM is also how publishers restrict how many simultaneous devices can display the book, and whether or not text-to-speech is enabled. But about a year ago, Amazon started giving independent publishers the option to skip [...]
Helpful advice for new Kindle owners
Here are some handy tips from actual Kindle owners to newcomers who just got one in the past few days. I cribbed most of these from this Amazon Discussion Forum thread, and although I’ve edited it down to the ones I personally vouch for, the whole thread is worth a look if you’re just getting [...]
Looking for Kindle help? Don't get taken advantage of by opportunists
A convenience fee: something you pay when your time is too valuable to waste looking up Kindle info. A stupidity fee: when you pay a stranger cash for information that is not only free, but easier to access in its free version. My point: before you pay anyone for any Kindle guide or manual or [...]
How to replace the battery on your Kindle 3
It’s likely that your Kindle’s battery will last as long as you own the Kindle, unless you happen to be one of those frugal types who hangs on to a device for a lot longer than the average consumer. But if your battery does go kaput (edit: and you don’t have any warranty protection), you [...]
Quick tip: Dealing with greyed-out books
Rarely, you’ll buy a book from the Kindle Store and it won’t download immediately to your device. Instead, the title will appear in your archive but it will be greyed out, with no option to complete the download. That’s what happened to a customer in the Amazon Discussion Forum, and there were a couple of [...]