Category Archives: Kindle

My Chat Today with Mike Shatzkin & What He Had to Say About the Future of Ebooks in 2009

Posted on April 23, 2012 by len

I just finished a Skype interview with Mike Shatzkin, a widely followed consultant, analyst, and futurist in the world of digital publishing. Our conversation will be the interview for TKC 195 this Friday. I have spent the last couple of … Continue reading →

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Ssshh! Here’s How to Borrow Library Books for Your Kindle

Posted on April 19, 2012 by len

The process of borrowing books for your Kindle or Kindle apps from your public library is not difficult, exactly. But there are a lot of steps. The one that caused me the most frustration was getting the library card number … Continue reading →

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All Aboard for new Kindle(s?)

Posted on September 27, 2011 by len

Note: Stephen Windwalker of the inimitable Kindle Nation Daily asked me to live-blog the Amazon press conference tomorrow in NYC, at which there will be some kind of announcement involving the Kindle. We’ve set up this Google Docs page that … Continue reading →

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Better to Light a Kindle than Curse the Darkness

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Len

Jim and Linda never pretended that their gracious home in Botswana has a reliable supply of electricity. They told us of frequent, unannounced outages of varying lengths.  We know that Linda checks the red doorbell light each time she pulls … Continue reading →

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Girl, Dog, Beach

Posted on October 2, 2010 by len

We were reading our Kindles at the beach when an autumn breeze came up. So I fetched additional layers of clothing up at the cottage and returned with a bag of almonds and a root beer. Our friend Holly, a … Continue reading →

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K4K Launched to Provide Kindles for Troops

Posted on March 7, 2010 by Len

Yesterday I launched a project to provide free Kindles for U.S. troops serving in Afghanistan.  I chose Kandahar because of the letter K, but also because it’s the general region where Army Sgt. Andre B. Corbin will serve when he … Continue reading →

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Hot Off Amazon’s Digital Text Platform…

Posted on July 1, 2009 by Len

With help from wizard Kindle formatter Joshua Tallent, I now have a new title available at Amazon’s Kindle Store.  It’s A Poet’s Progress at Bennington – Vol. 1. It comprises the work I did during my first semester in the … Continue reading →

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A Very Smart Take on the Kindle

Posted on June 27, 2009 by Len

SmartMoney editor Tom Weber has written one of the smartest pieces about the Amazon Kindle that I’ve seen in a long time.  His thesis is that the Kindle makes it difficult to wander off in the middle of a book … Continue reading →

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Savoring a Sunday

Posted on May 31, 2009 by Len

I did some purposeful work today, but I generally keep Sunday’s free for whimsical forays in directions I hadn’t planned to go.  Here are some highlights: I added the free app Pointer to my iPhone, which enables me to control … Continue reading →

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What’s on My Kindle This Morning

Posted on March 30, 2008 by len

The Philadelphia Inquirer – Where I learned that the last full-blooded Eyak and fluent speaker of her native language, Marie Smith Jones, died Monday at her home in Anchorage, Alaska. I mainly purchased today’s Sunday edition for 75 cents hoping … Continue reading →

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