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eReaderIQ improves Kindle deal alert service with new filters and categories

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Chris Walters

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 … Continue reading →

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New Kindle weather website launches, competes with other browser utilities

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Chris Walters

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, … Continue reading →

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Literature Map from Gnod uses fancy robot math to suggest new authors to you

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Chris Walters

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 … Continue reading →

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No time to look for good articles? Let Delivereads do it

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Chris Walters

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 … Continue reading →

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Using Amazon Cloud Drive to store ebooks

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Chris Walters

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. Continue reading →

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Two more ways to get websites onto your Kindle

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Chris Walters

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. … Continue reading →

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Play Zork on your Kindle at Kindlequest

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Chris Walters

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 … Continue reading →

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Amazon launches new lists: "Top 100 Free" and "Top 100 Paid"

Posted on May 22, 2010 by Chris Walters

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 … Continue reading →

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