I no longer enjoy launching the Kobo app on my iPhone or iPad. I stopped looking forward to interacting with it a few updates ago, and now I actually avoid it. This has been building for a while. A year ago, I praised Kobo for being ahead of the curve when it came to adding [...]
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Readability adds “send to Kindle” support
Readability, the free service that makes web pages easier on the eyes with a simple click, has introduced a new “send to Kindle” feature. This is essentially what Kindlebility has been offering for a few months, but now it’s baked right into the original service. You’ll have to install a free add-on to Firefox, and [...]
Kobo’s summer reading challenge: read books, help charitable organizations
Did you ever participate in a summer reading program when you were a kid, where you attempted to reach a goal of n books or pages before the end of August? Do you miss that sort of thing? If so, Kobo has just the program for you. Their “One Trillion Minute Challenge”, which launched last [...]
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 [...]
Are readers growing more concerned about DRM? (Please?)
A highly informal survey hints that maybe DRM’s biggest enemy is the growing popularity of ebooks — the more you read, the more likely you are to be annoyed by lending and platform restrictions.
Kindlebility is yet another way to send articles to your Kindle
Kindlebility lets you add a bookmark to your browser that will send any page you’re viewing to your Amazon Kindle email address.
Worldreader gives 440 Kindles to young readers in Ghana
If you want to go into the weekend with an inspirational story, check out Worldreader’s recent blog updates about the 440 free Kindles and M-Edge cases it just handed out to kids in Ghana, Africa. From the blog: “After playing around with the buttons a bit, [the students] quickly understood the e-reader’s functionalities. They were [...]
Kirkus picks best teen and children's books for 2010
If that latest Kindle TV commercial is right, kids will read almost anything, but in reality they tend to be just as picky as grownups. If you’re shopping for books for teens or children this season, you might appreciate the new “Best of 2010″ lists just released by Kirkus Reviews. Their children’s book list has [...]
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 to use if you hate dealing with software. But if you find yourself constantly stumbling [...]
Next up for Kindle: Android devices
So far we’ve got access to the Amazon Kindle ecosystem on the iPhone and iPod Touch, Windows PCs, Blackberry devices, and naturally Kindles. Next up appears to be devices running Android, the operating system Google developed mainly for smartphones, although other types of gadgets are starting to make use of it too. The biggest impact [...]
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?
Convert pretty much any text into the Kindle format with Stanza desktop app
Update October 2010: It’s been a couple of years since this post, and software continues to change. Check out the Converting Stuff page for up-to-date recommendations. Stanza is an iPhone app that lets you read public domain books on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Why do you, a Kindle owner, care? Because the company behind [...]