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11 Darlene

Kindle News: Forbes gets it wrong on the iPhone v. the Kindle. Tech Tip: How to find out there’s no Whispernet in Missoula, Montana. Click here for Sprint coverage map. Interview: My wife, Darlene, opens her Kindle and starts using it. Quote: The Faith of Barack Obama by Stephen Mansfield. Comments: Bob Boyken, Sang-Won Kim, [...]

Posted 03 October 2008 † Len Edgerly § ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged:

10 Jim Cheshire

Kindle News: Amazon passes a milestone with 180,000 titles available in the Kindle Store. Tech Tip: A light for reading your Kindle in bed when your spouse is trying to sleep. Interview: Jim Cheshire, author of Decoding the Kindle. Kindle Quote: from Spirit House, a Vincent Calvino Novel by Christopher G. Moore. Kindle Comments: audio [...]

Posted 26 September 2008 † Len Edgerly § ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: ,

9 Andy Ihnatko

Kindle News: Forbes reports on two more would-be Kindle Killers from Plastic Logic and iRex Technologies. Tech Tip: My 79-year-old mother’s clever idea for printing a Kindle page didn’t pan out, but I did learn about the expanded location tool from Jim Cheshire‘s new book, Decoding the Kindle. Interview: Andy Ihnatko, technology columnist for the [...]

Posted 19 September 2008 † Len Edgerly § ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: ,

8 Heather Hollick

Kindle News: Kindle snags exclusive for new biographies of Michelle Obama and Cindy McCain.  Jim Cheshire’s Decoding the Kindle is released. Tech Tip: How to highlight a section of text which begins on one screen and ends on the next. Also, Jan Zlendich’s tip for helping your Kindle make it home if you leave it [...]

Posted 12 September 2008 † Len Edgerly § ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged:

7 Jan Zlendich

Kindle News: Andy Ihnatko’s possibly prophetic piece in Macworld titled, “How Apple Could Make e-books work and why Steve Jobs could do what Jeff Bezos hasn’t.” Tech Tip: How to put your Kindle on cruise control. (Hat tip to chelsea etitameh on the Kindle Korner Yahoo Group. ) The “What’s On Your Kindle?” Interview: Jan [...]

Posted 05 September 2008 † Len Edgerly § ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: ,

6 Randal Schwartz

Kindle News: We have fresh rumors of new student-oriented Kindle models coming as soon as September from Andrea James of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Peter Burrows of Business Week’s The Tech Beat.  This led John C. Dvorak to increase the warmth of his Kindle assessment compared with his initial scoffing on This Week in Tech [...]

Posted 29 August 2008 † Len Edgerly § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

5 Joe Wikert

The “What’s on Your Kindle?” interview this week is with Joe Wikert, creator of the Kindleville blog and vice president & executive publisher within the Professional Trade Division of John Wiley & Sons.  Here is some of what’s on Joe’s Kindle: Subscriptions to The New York Times and Time Magazine Samples of Predictably Irrational, Obsessive [...]

Posted 22 August 2008 † Len Edgerly § ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , ,

4 Bill Bulger

This week’s “What’s on Your Kindle?” Interview is with Bill Bulger, 74, a legendary Massachusetts politician from South Boston who served 17 years as president of the state Senate and 7 years as president of the University of Massachusetts.  We visited at his home, and afterward his wife, Mary, revealed exactly why she bought her [...]

Posted 15 August 2008 † Len Edgerly § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

3 Stephen Windwalker

Kindle News: Electronic newspaper readers in Germany and France, as well Dave Lester’s Treeless Systems project in Denver that I profiled in a podcast two years ago. A rosy view of the Kindle’s future sales and one not so rosy. One thing NOT to do with your Kindle. A Free Webinar, “Leveraging the Kindle – [...]

Posted 08 August 2008 † Len Edgerly § ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: ,

2 C. C. Chapman

The “What’s on Your Kindle?” Interview: A telephone conversation with C.C. Chapman, who runs a digital marketing company called The Advance Guard and is host of the Accident Hash, Managing the Gray and U-Turn Cafe podcasts.  His informative comments include how he uses the Kindle to inspire him onward in writing a current manuscript.  What’s [...]

Posted 01 August 2008 † Len Edgerly § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

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