Kindle Amazon Archive

  • McCracken looks at the Nook

    McCracken looks at the Nook

    We didn’t get a Nook yet but Harry McCracken at Technologizer did, which means he’s better than us. Why? Because his last name reminds me of a sea monster. Anyway, Harry found the Nook to be a 1.0 product at best and a 0.1 product at worst. His bottom line: Let’s get one thing out of the [...]

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  • Amazon announces better battery life and native PDF support for the Kindle

    Amazon announces better battery life and native PDF support for the Kindle

    Amazon announced some major changes to their Kindle e-book reader today. Specifically, it stated that they've worked out a way to increase battery life by 85%. That means that the new firmware update will allow you to leave your Kindle on (with the wifi active) for about 7 days before you need to recharge. Additionally, the Kindle will now support Adobe's PDF format natively. Previously, you had to convert PDFs in order to view them on the Kindle.

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  • Gift Guide 2009: Wireless E-book Readers

    Gift Guide 2009: Wireless E-book Readers

    Intro We're only about five weeks away from Christmas, so now's as good a time as any to talk about (drum roll, please) e-books. Amazon kick-started the e-book market (with apologies to earlier e-book readers) with the introduction of the Kindle in the fall of 2007. Two years later, Barnes and Noble, IREX, and Sony announced [...]

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  • Sheet Music Comes to The Kindle

    Sheet Music Comes to The Kindle

    Amazon’s Kindle now does sheet music. It seems like the perfect match, especially if you choose to read it from the oversized Kindle DX. The music, which can be bought in the Kindle Store, comes from Novato Music Press catalog of over 20,000 titles, including 650 from Dave Beeth-Oven himself. The books are cheap, too, starting [...]

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