Category Archives: ideas
Songs as books? An illustrated version of Lady Gaga’s “Telephone”
Yesterday I wrote up a whole bunch of notes for what will most likely be another long post about some hypothetical near-future publishing idea. That’s not important (yet). What’s important is that in those notes I used Lady Gaga as … Continue reading
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Tagged ebooks, experiments, gaga, illustrated, illustrations, novelty, pop music, retro, songs, telephone, vintage
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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 … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, best practices, faq, guides, help, how to, info, new Kindle, new owners, tips
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Where to find elegant and quirky Kindle cases
One of the best sources for one-of-a-kind cases for your Kindle (or Nook, Kobo, etc.) is Etsy, the handmade items retailer. Etsy’s particularly great for padded sleeves, because you can choose from a hundred different fabric patterns instead of four … Continue reading
Use virtual bookplates to help recover a lost Kindle
It’s not a bad idea to put your contact info on your Kindle, in the event that you misplace it and a Good Samaritan happens along. There’s a built-in spot for this information under Settings, but a stranger might not … Continue reading
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Tagged customizing, how to, kindle, lost, personalizing, recovering, screens, screensavers
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Use Instapaper to save articles to your Kindle
Calibre, the Kindle-friendly ebook library management program, will let you collect RSS feeds from various sources and get them on your Kindle through email or USB. The web service Kindlefeeder will do the same, and is maybe a little easier … Continue reading
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Tagged articles, how to, instapaper, online content, read it later, reading, rss feeds, tools, websites
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Creating anthologies on demand
What if you could visit Amazon or Barnes & Noble and create your own anthology about any topic you want? Why can’t you already? Continue reading
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Tagged customized, digital, ebooks, hypothetical, ideas, pod, predictions, print on demand, printing, texts, user experience narratives
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Published author predicts the ebook experience in 2014
Genre novelist Joe Konrath, aka Jack Kilborn, predicts what reading ebooks will be like in 4 years, including ambient audio tracks, physical takeaways at book signings, ads, and place-shifting content across devices. Continue reading
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Tagged brainstorming, ebooks, ereaders, extrapoloation, future of publishing, future of reading, future technology, predictions, publishing, user narratives
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Dehydrated books, or how to make money off of fan fiction and unauthorized sequels
Imagine that this evening I follow a friend’s link to a new Harry Potter book, one that essentially replaces “The Sorcerer’s Stone” in the canon with a Year 1 adventure that’s darker and closer in tone to the final few … Continue reading →