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TKC 96 Mike Elgan

News – The Kindle for PC application gets an update. And coming this summer: Kindle for Android. Click here for Engadget’s story. Tech Tip – Amazon’s Kindle Support section has lots of good ideas, especially for new Kindle users.  This week’s tip explains how to set a limit on the cost for sending a personal [...]

Posted 21 May 2010 † Len Edgerly § Kindle ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

53 Mike Elgan

News – Jeff Bezos posts a classy apology for Amazon’s Orwellian moment, earning a kudo from Andrys Basten. Mignon Fogarty in her excellent new podcast, Behind the Grammar, notes that one of the retracted Orwell books had been annotated by a student for school. Oops! Barnes & Noble teams up with Plastic Logic to challenge the Kindle. New evidence via USA Today that the Kindle is seeping into the mainstream.

Tech Tip – Note: The promised trio of tech tips turns out to be only a duo on the podcast, proving that I should have paid more attention to the missing second one from Larry Goss – about how to use your Kindle 1 or 2 to do math tricks. I’ll be sure to include it next week. The tech tips actually related on the podcast are 1) How to submit your blog for Kindle subscriptions, and 2) and how to read word definitions in larger font on the Kindle 2 or DX, courtesy of Allen MacDiarmid.

Interview – Leading tech blogger and columnist Mike Elgan returns to the podcast to give an engaging, insightful update on the State of the Kindle. Click here for his last visit to the show, on January 2, 2009. He’s also a lively and informative Twitterer.

Content – Check out Jan Zlendich’s excellent blog, The Kindle Reader, for frequently updated tips on good reading for your Kindle. The Kindle Quote is from my sister’s new creation, Stephanie’s Bible Blog, newly available for subscription at the Kindle store.

Audio Comments – Stephanie Bowe, Joshua Tallent, Linda Hopkins, Rick from North Reading, Mass., Peggy Poellot, and Bryan Person.

Email Comments – Stephen Windwalker (a guest on the show here and here) and Robert W. Rutkowski.

Note: I’m sorry this episode is a day late, the first time I’ve missed my Friday deadline since I began the Kindle Chronicles on July 26, 2008. Thanks to a true genius at the Cambridgeside Apple Store, Justin Granger, the recording of my interview with Mike Elgan was rescued this morning from the crashed hard drive on my MacBook Air. Thanks, also, to my mother for loaning me her MacBook Air for a few days, so I could complete this episode and upload it.

Posted 25 July 2009 † Len Edgerly § Kindle ‡ Comments (19) ° Also tagged: , , ,

TKC 53 The One-Year Un-Anniversary

An amazing sequence of technical problems has resulted in my not having a podcast to upload today, which was going to be a celebration of the one-year anniversary of the show. The MacBook Pro that I usually use in Cambridge to prepare the podcast died yesterday. Tonight the MacBook Air was running slowly, so I called Apple Support, where a confident young man led me through a series of steps to speed it up. At the end of an hour the Air was inoperable, and there’s a good chance I will lose everything on the hard drive when I take it to the Apple store tomorrow.

I had a terrific interview on the hard drive with tech blogger and columnist Mike Elgan, along with some fine anniversary audio comments from listeners.

I wanted to put something on the feed to let you know what’s up, and my wife’s Mac Mini was available to do the job. So that’s the story of the one-year un-anniversary of the Kindle Chronicles. Thank you all for listening and supporting the show for the past year. There’s nothing left to do tonight except to curl up in my leather chair with my Kindle and read today’s edition of The Economist.

Cheers,

Len

Posted 24 July 2009 † Len Edgerly § Kindle ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: , ,

24 Mike Elgan

News – My own exclusive scuttlebutt which leads me to believe Amazon will start shipping the new version this month, ahead of the official announcement in February. Tech Tip – Ever wonder how much further you have to read before reaching the end of a chapter?  This tip will help you find out. Interview – [...]

Posted 02 January 2009 † Len Edgerly § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: ,

24 – EXTRA Mike Elgan interview – Part 2

The second half of my interview on Dec. 31, 2008 with tech blogger and columnist Mike Elgan. Part 1 is contained in episode 24 of the Kindle Chronicles. Click here to download Part 2.

Posted 02 January 2009 † Len Edgerly § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

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