Two days ago I noticed something new in the daily email I get from eReaderIQ. Actually, I noticed a couple of new things. The first was that suddenly the books were being organized according to genre, which makes it a lot easier to skim. The second was this notice at the bottom: I clicked through [...]
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Set public domain content free from locked PDF files
Lately I’ve been digging around online to find old genre short stories written in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In many cases it’s clear that the works have passed into the public domain, at least here in the U.S., but in other cases there’s a questionable copyright claim, as when a modern publisher slaps [...]
Apple’s OS X Lion can create EPUB files!
If you’re using or plan to upgrade to the latest Apple operating system, Lion, you’ll discover a nifty ebook trick baked into the Automator program: it can create EPUB files! The website Mac OS X Automation reported it first, so far as I know. From that site: Mac OS X Lion includes an Automator action, [...]
ReadBeam makes it easy to read newspapers and blogs on your ereader
If you don’t want to use Calibre, or can’t be bothered to figure out how to use it to subscribe to news feeds and send them to your ereader, you might want to give ReadBeam a try. The service offers around two dozen popular blogs and online newspapers. You’ll have to sign up with a [...]
BookLikes first impressions: an undercooked indie version of Shelfari
BookLikes is yet another free service for book lovers that promises to make quality recommendations to you based on what others are reading. Unfortunately, it’s not quite ready for public consumption.
No time to look for good articles? Let Delivereads do it
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
Check out Kindle App News for the best Kindle app coverage
For several months now I’ve been trying to keep track of new apps as they’re released on the Kindle Store. It was manageable at first, but now that the number of titles is approaching 50, the task has grown beyond my resources and attention level. That’s where Kindle App News comes in. The blog was [...]
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.
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 [...]