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How I ended up with a 7-inch color Amazon Kindle for $130
Update: Check out my follow-up post a week later. It’s true! If you’ve got some tech/geek skills, a little patience, $150, and a Bed Bath & Beyond nearby, you too can become the proud owner of a color touch screen … Continue reading
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Tagged alternatives, android, ebooks, guides, hacking, hacks, help, how to, ipad, kindle, novel, pandigital, touchscreens
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How to re-install the screensaver hack on a Kindle running 2.5.2
Great news for those of you missing your old screensavers: a person over at Mobileread.com has repackaged those beloved hacks so that they work on the new 2.5.2 update. To get them, visit this thread on Mobileread and check out … Continue reading
How to make the most of Kindle 2.5.2
So let’s say your Kindle is now upgraded to the most recent version of the software, which as of today is 2.5.2 2.5.3. Now what do you do? Some geeks (like me) keep going on about how awesome it is, … Continue reading
Make sure you're ready for the Kindle 2.5 update
According to excited posts on various forums, Amazon has started to send out the 2.5 update to Kindle 2 and Kindle DX owners. To be more accurate, they started the rollout a couple of weeks ago, but that was considered … Continue reading
How to turn off Amazon's automatic backup of your annotations
I wrote earlier about the needless concern over Amazon’s new “Popular Highlights” service, which anonymously collects highlights from customers’ Kindle ebooks and combines them into one giant pool for everyone to browse. I still say that in the world of … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, annotations, backups, bookmarks, disable, enable, help, highlights, how to, kindle, Kindle DX, notes, privacy settings, tips, turn off, turn on
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Should you worry about Amazon's new highlights program?
In the few years I’ve been blogging, I’ve learned a couple of things about the online news cycle. First, the blogosphere is a far noisier echo chamber than any other media channel, and second, hype not only draws readers, but … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, backups, cloud storage, data, highlights, kindle, pesronal data, privacy, privacy concerns, social networks
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Convert your old LIT ebooks so you can read them on your Kindle
Yesterday’s “Help File” column at the Washington Post illustrates a common problem when it comes to digital content: how do you deal with old formats that aren’t properly supported anymore? For instance, Microsoft’s LIT ebook format was a popular choice … Continue reading
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Tagged abc, advice, Amazon, applications, books, conversions, converting, drm, ebooks, formats, how to, kindle, lit, lock-in, microsoft, mobi, proprietary, services, solutions, tips
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