Amazon has added a Shmoop Classics page for Kindlers. You can browse the “Shmoop Classics for Kindle ” page, or go to the much less friendly to the eye “All Shmoop Classics” Kindle page. If you go to the latter, you’d better know what you’re looking for because there is no help for drilling down. [...]
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Calibre and Kindle, the best gets better
There is a new version of Calibre available (0.6.1). This version makes book conversion and library maintenance for the Kindle even better. If you have a lot of books that were not purchased via Amazon, Calibre can make your life a lot easier. You can maintain a library of non-Amazon purchases and downloads, convert those [...]
READ MORE »Kindle Kvetching
Is it me, or does browsing for a Kindle book via the Amazon site pretty much suck? (We’ll talk about searching later–yuck!) And it’s getting worse! I hate to say it, but I’m blaming it on all the self-publishing, both for public domain and original texts. In fact, that’s why I started this blog. I [...]
READ MORE »M-edge e-Luminator2 Booklight
Thank goodness this is finally back! I have M-edge covers for my Kindle 1 & Kindle 2–I would have gotten one for the DX if I hadn’t returned it. If you have the M-edge covers, this is the light for you. No more lugging around a separate item, this one slips right into a pocket [...]
READ MORE »Caught by Kindle TTS
I got caught by the lack of TTS on one of my Kindle books, and I can promise both Amazon and Random House that I will NEVER again purchase a book that has Text-to-Speech disabled. Ever, never… Let me give a little background. While I listen to various podcasts on my way to work–for my [...]
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