The Kindle Fire doesn’t come with a normal web browser, but with something Amazon is calling Amazon Silk, which is Amazon’s attempt at improving page rendering speed, browser responsiveness, and hardware limitations. Amazon has launched a blog about Amazon Silk, but so far the blog just displays a PR-written post and a Googlefied “here’s how [...]
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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 feeds on itself as each new blogger picks up on the story of the day. [...]
"Popular Highlights" lets you see what passages Kindle readers highlight the most
Does this phrase resonate with you? …three things–autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward–are, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying. If so, you’re not alone. Over 1,600 Kindle readers have highlighted that sentence from Malcom Gladwell’s book Outliers, making it the most [...]
Ereaders make public reading private
The Atlantic argues that the Kindle fails in part because it anonymizes your reading material. Is that really a bad thing?