I have two Kindles: a Kindle Fire and an e-ink Kindle Keyboard 3G. If you have not yet fallen under their spell, this holiday season is the perfect time. In addition to the hundreds of thousands of bestselling (and back list) books that are available for purchase at Amazon.com, there are frequently excellent books on… [Continue]
Kindle eBooks Can Now Be Loaned
Woooheee! Select Kindle books can now be loaned to friends and family for 14-days! Be sure to read through all the rules before getting started, as the program is a bit strict. The biggest issue (in my mind) is that it is the publisher that determines whether a book can be loaned or not, and… [Continue]
Free Kindle Books
If Santa left an Amazon Kindle under your tree, here are some sites where you download free eBooks. Free eBooks at Amazon: these include classics that are out of copyright, and limited-time promotional ebooks. Jungle Search: provides a price range search at Amazon, so, for example, you can look for books less than $5.00 or… [Continue]
Reading on a Kindle vs. an iPod Touch
Since getting my Kindle in August, I have become a fiction-reading machine! I am loving it. The odd part, that I didn’t really analyze, was that BEFORE the Kindle, I was reading mostly non-fiction. I never really thought about why I made the switch, but a friend of mine pointed out that he prefers fiction… [Continue]