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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Three online notepads that work with the Kindle
Here’s a quick review of three free notepad services that work fairly well with the Kindle 3′s web browser. Why would you want a notepad service? I get to that below, after the quick reviews. Jottit.com Features: 9 Kindle Web Display: 6 Kindle Article Display: 9 Click image to view more screens. My favorite service, [...]
Kinstant update adds customizable shortcuts
Kinstant, the online shortcuts page designed for the Kindle that I first covered back in October, has been upgraded. The calculator is still there (click the “show menu” link at the top of the screen), but now there’s local weather and room to add your own custom URLs. Kinstant saves the new URLs on your [...]
Kinstant provides a ready-to-go homepage for your Kindle browser
Update: Want your own version of a shortcuts page? Use my template file. The website Kinstant.com is designed to serve as a pre-configured home page for your Kindle browser–just visit kinstant.com on your Kindle for a list of links to some of the most popular blogs and email services on the Internet. It’s easy enough [...]
Convert your old LIT ebooks so you can read them on your Kindle
Yesterday’s “Help File” column at the Washington Post illustrates a common problem when it comes to digital content: how do you deal with old formats that aren’t properly supported anymore? For instance, Microsoft’s LIT ebook format was a popular choice several years ago, but none of today’s major ebook devices natively support those files. Here [...]
"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 [...]
A review of Blue Leaf book scanning service
A review of Blue Leaf Book Scanning service, a mail-in book scanner that will convert your printed books into PDF and other formats.
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 [...]