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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New Kindle weather website launches, competes with other browser utilities
I got an email from Kindle Weather Station this morning, a new service in beta that offers a full screen weather report (via the experimental browser) for your neighborhood. The good news is the weather is presented in a huge, easy-to-read layout that I find quite useful. The other news—maybe not “bad” but not necessarily [...]
Literature Map from Gnod uses fancy robot math to suggest new authors to you
From what I can tell by the intro paragraph on the home page, Gnod is an experiment in creating a self-aware deathbot who will someday enslave us all. But until that day it’s a fun way to discover new authors you might enjoy. Gnod’s literature section, Gnooks, includes a free service it calls a Literature [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Play Zork on your Kindle at Kindlequest
Update October 11th, 2010: After I posted this, several mainstream publications picked up the story and started circulating it. There’s not much new to add except for a different URL that doesn’t use “Kindle” in the name: http://www.portablequest.com/. Enjoy! If you’re tired of Minesweeper, don’t like the free word games Shuffled Row and Every Word, [...]
Amazon launches new lists: "Top 100 Free" and "Top 100 Paid"
This morning I logged onto Amazon’s Kindle store and checked out the bestseller list, and was happily surprised to see that Amazon has just implemented the change that it announced to Publishers Weekly less than two weeks ago. From now on, all books that cost money will have their own top 100 list, and all [...]
Chaos over securing digital rights for "enhanced" ebooks
If the history of commerce on the Internet is at all predictive, then we probably have a good ten years before big publishers bring the right big guns to the fight and suck up the majority of the market. That leaves a lot of time for disruptive newcomers to transform the marketplace significantly enough that they emerge as permanent and powerful market leaders.
Notes from yesterday's Google Book Search settlement workshop
Here were the main themes discussed at yesterday’s Google Book Search settlement workshop hosted by the National Writers Union (NWU).
Now you can access your notes and highlights online
Amazon just quietly introduced a handy new web portal, kindle.amazon.com, where you can log in and view your list of books. What really makes it useful, however, is each book automatically lists any notes or highlights you’ve added while reading it. Now instead of having to access those things from the device via a USB [...]
Meet kindlefeeder, the best online tool you'll find for your Kindle
If you read a lot of online content, you need to know about Kindlefeeder, because it will drastically improve your reading experience on the Kindle. Kindlefeeder does two things extraordinarily well: It lets you pick up to 30 rss feeds from blogs, magazines, whatever you can find online that you like to read, and it [...]