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TKC 49 Andrys Basten

Andrys thumbIntro – The view out my window during a big rain in downtown Denver. Taken and uploaded from the new iPhone 3GS.

News -   Abhi analyzes a recently approved patent for an amazing new Kindle pen, via TechFlash. Steve Bain of Kindle Zen finds evidence of WiFi readiness in photos of a torn-apart Kindle DX. Plus, Western States Arts Federation asks me to demo a DX as a possible tool to help state arts agencies go paperless for grant applications.

Tech Tips -  an nice viewing improvement at Kindle.Amazon.com and a reminder from Stephen Windwalker at Kindle Nation on how to do a hard reboot when scary stuff happens on your Kindle.

Interview – Andrys Basten, creator of the A Kindle World blog.  UPDATE: Click here for Andrys’s post on Ted Inoue’s hack to improve contrast on the Kindle 2.

Quote – A book that has rekindled my commitment to regular exercise.

Comments – Allen MacDiarmid, Bob Hare, and Greg Keck.

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6/27/09 UPDATE: I discovered editing errors in the original audio file for this episode, so I have corrected them and uploaded a new version of the file. My apologies for the glitch!

 

Posted 26 June 2009 † Len Edgerly § Kindle ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , ,

TKC 48 Will DeLamater

will-delamater-thumbNews – Jeff Bezos talks strategy. The DX survives a 30-inch drop AND sells out in the first three days. BYU chickens out of an innovative Kindle interlibrary loan program

Tech Tip -  Via Andrei Pushkin, how to turn your Kindle DX into a calculator. (My interview with Andrei in Episode 42.)

Interview – Will DeLamater, creator of the EduKindle blog, shares his first impressions of the DX and looks ahead to its success in the education sector.

Quote – From the New International Version of The Bible, Matthew Chapter 6.

Comments -Marcie McKenzie, Dan Meyers, Yisroel Parker, Joe Clark and an audio comment from Pastor Mark Pierce, creator of the Church Requel podcast.

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Posted 19 June 2009 † Len Edgerly § Kindle ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , , ,

TKC 47 Len Edgerly on the DX

len-and-darleneNews – The Kindle DX arrives.  Some good reviews here, here, here, and here.  and a Kindle DX Textbook store may open on about July 1.

Tech Tip -  How to use the very handy Kindlepedia tool.

Interview – My wife Darlene asks me a few questions about the Kindle DX and offers her own commentary at the end of the interview.

Quote – A PDF file on the DX and comparison of the Text to Speech sound on the DX versus the Kindle 2.

Comments – Steve Shank, Drew Herdener, Brian Vallelunga, Dan Meyers, Marcy McKenzie, Bob Hare, Craig Scarberry, Larry Gross, Len Charnoff, and Rebecca Robertson.

Click here for the DX unboxing video I posted yesterday.

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TKC 46 Marion Maneker

marion-maneker-thumbNews (2:26) – The DX is coming next week! Google throws down the gauntlet for Amazon.  A new owner for eInk.  A way to spend $500 on a Kindle accessory.

Tech tip (7:16) – how to listen to this podcast on your Kindle.

Interview (11:42) – Marion Maneker, author of a Kindle column at TheBigMoney.com and former publisher for business imprints at Harper Collins.

Quote – George Being George, edited by Nelson W. Aldrich.

Comments – Carolyn and Linda Hopkins.

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TKC 45 Paul Biba

paulphoto21News (1:31) – National Kindle Koffee meetup Saturday, June 6 at 10 a.m. local time – bring your Kindles! (I’ll be hanging out at the Starbucks in downtown Denver at 16th and Blake Streets.) Literary lion Charles McGrath sort of praises the Kindle in the New York Times. eInk reports a million screens in use. How to prolong life of Kindle’s lithium-based batteries.

Tech Tip (7:13) – How to use Amazon’s great new feature that enables you to see Kindle highlighting and notes here.

Interview (10:25) – Paul Biba, co-editor of TeleRead and a way-early adopter of eBooks, back when he was a globe-trotting corporate lawyer.  He explains why he considers these early days of the eBook revolution so exciting, and why he and TeleRead owner David Rothman disagree on whether we should be afraid that Amazon will gain monopolistic power over the eBook industry.

Quote (30:12) – “Amazon’s Next Revolution” by Jeffrey M. O’Brien of Fortune.

Comments (31:48) – Verinder Syal, April, Cindy Brooks, yisroel parker, Billie Bogart, and Clark Dimond.

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TKC 44 Roxanne Darling & Shane Robinson

roxanne-thumb1News (2:06) – Kindle Publishing for Blogs gets a thumbs-up from Abhi, and me, too. The Kindle iPhone app gets a spiffy update.  Stephen Windwalker presents evidence that the Kindle may be coming to international markets soon.

Tech Tip (6:01) -  Blair Slavin details a way to play with words in the Kindle 2 dictionary.

Interview – (7:36) Roxanne Darling and Shane Robinson make a dashing Kindle Couple and are among Hawai’i’s social media leaders. At Kailua Beach on May 20, 2009, they talked about sharing a Kindle 1, the Kindle iPhone app, and things you should not be afraid to bring to the beach.  They are creators of the long-running and inspiring Beach Walks with Rox video podcast, and their tech-savvy Internet consulting business is Bare Foot Studios.

Quote (22:20) – Neville Hobson is experimenting with Twitter/audio book reviews.

Comments (24:53) – John W. Halkias, Halimah Felt, and Karen Hagglund.

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TKC 43 Stephen Peters

stephen-peters-thumbNews (1:57) – Stephen Windwalker’s analysis of Kindle DX and Kindle 2 sales. Will pirates save the DX? Also, Amazon makes nifty improvements to the Kindle iPhone app.

Tech Tip (7:35) – Courtesy of Pat Hawn, a consideration of putting your Kindle to sleep at night versus turning it off.

Interview (11:02) – Stephen Peters, author of Kindle Culture: Tales of How Amazon’s e-Reader is Sparking a Cultural Revolution.

Quote (33:03) – From Felonious Jazz by Bryan Gilmor Gilmer.  UPDATE: I have corrected the link for Felonious Jazz.

Comments (37:03) – Billie Bogart, Dan Meyers, John C. Adamson, Karl Bunker, April Dorris, Tom Lichty, and an audio comment from Dan Barnett.

Next Week – I’ll be in Honolulu to present a workshop for Board members and staff of the Hawai’i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.  On Wednesday while staying on after the workshop with my wife,  I’m scheduled to interview Roxanne Darling, creator of Beach Walks with Rox, a video podcast in which Roxanne walks along a gorgeous beach on Oahu, talking about life, with her partner Shane Robinson doing the filming.  They are also partners in Bare Feet Studios.

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TKC 42 Andrei Pushkin

andrei-pushkin-thumbNews (1:40) – The Kindle DX is announced at an Amazon press conference in New York City.  Joshua Topolsky, editor-in-chief of Engadget, was there and spoke with me by phone yesterday about his first impressions of the device. (Interview with Joshua begins at 6:23.) Joshua also appears weekly on the Engadget podcast. Also see Abhi’s blog and Stephen Windwalker’s Kindle Nation update. Other coverage of the DX launch here, here, and here.

Tech Tip (22:56) -  Jesslyn Hendrix, who blogs here, shares an original idea for putting your Kindle 2 into hands-free mode.

Interview (25:09) – Andrei Pushkin of Blog Kindle discusses hacks such as Savory and Ted Inoue’s text contrast hack, as well as why the Kindle has been such a success.

Quote (36:25) – from Kindle Culture: Tales of How Amazon’s E-Reader is Sparking a Cultural Revolution by Stephen Peters

Comments (37:44) – Bob Hare, Dan Meyers, John C. Adamson, Linda Hopkins, Chuck Dunn, Dan Montopol, Dorian Nisinson, and Stephen Windwalker.

Next week’s interview will be with Stephen Peters, author of Kindle Culture.

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TKC 41 Stephen Windwalker

steve-windwalker-thumbIntro - My mother and I take the train from Saco, Maine, to Boston’s North Station.  We have the same conductor I interviewed in Audio Pod Chronicles # 40.

News (1:56) – Amazon gets serious about charging for wireless conversions of personal documents for reading on the Kindle. Details in special bulletin of Stephen Windwalker’s Kindle Nation. (Click here for free email subscription to Kindle Nation.)

Tech Tip (4:40) – three helpful tips from Linda Hopkins: a wireless shortcut to the Kindle Store,  how to delete items from your Kindle 1 or 2 home screen, and what happens when you press the 5-way controller to the right.

Interview (8:49)- Stephen Windwalker, author of The Complete User’s Guide to the Amazing Kindle 2 and creator of the weekly e-newsletter, Kindle Nation, serves me delicious pancakes at his home and talks about creating Kindle Nation, Digital Rights Management, how his use of the Kindle has changed, and the surprising results from his recent Kindle survey. 

Quote (25:20) – “These things, love” a poem from And with such love stare by Betsy Johnson-Miller, a fellow alum of the Bennington Writing Seminars MFA program.

Comments (27:32) – Allen MacDiarmid, Terry Perdue, Dorian Nisinson on gratitude for Calibre, Jason Moore on a cool app for moving web pages from your computer to the Kindle – Hatchet, John C. Adamson, Zite Hutton and an audio comment from Stephen Windwalker.

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EXTRA – Boston PDA Users Group Presentation

bpdauag-thumb1This is a recording of my presentation about the Kindle on April 28, 2009 at the Boston PDA Users Group, which meets on the MIT campus at 77 Mass. Ave.  Thanks to Al Willis for the invitation!

UPDATE (5/2/09) – This is the raw, unedited recording of the User’s Group meeting, which I posted mainly for the benefit of those at the meeting who might want to hear it.  The multiple voices at times and the echo-chamber quality of the classroom make it difficult to listen to, as a couple of commenters have noted.  Next time I’ll trim a recording like this more judiciously.

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