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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 … Continue reading
Kindle for the Web lets you read sample chapters in your browser
Amazon has released a new web-based interface that lets you read sample chapters without needing a Kindle or Kindle software. Check out Kindle for the Web below: The interface isn’t completely friendly to page designs with narrow column widths (this … Continue reading
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Tagged browsers, ebooks, html, kindle, kindle for the web, previews, sample chapters, websites
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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 … Continue reading
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Tagged 3G, active content, adventure, classics, games, kindle, online, text, text-based, websites, wi-fi, wifi, wireless, zork
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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 … Continue reading
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Tagged articles, how to, instapaper, online content, read it later, reading, rss feeds, tools, websites
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Author Nick Spalding launches indie book recommendation blog
Nick Spalding, author of the experimental written-all-in-one-sitting novel Life…With No Breaks (readers on Amazon seem to either love it or hate it), announced yesterday that he’s launched a new indie author blog called Spalding’s Racket: I’ve created [it] to promote … Continue reading
Free site lets you create Kindle files from other documents
Italian website Simplicissimus will let you convert files into PDF, ePub, or Kindle-friendly Mobi formats, for free. Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, azw, conversion, converting, ebooks, epub, formats, formatting, free, kindle, mobi, pdf, tools, websites
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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 … Continue reading
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). Continue reading →