Amazon has just released a new firmware 5.3.4 for their Kindle Paperwhite. Like the previous firmware upgrade, there’s actually no change log attached advising any details You can wait to wirelessly receive the upgrade or manually download and install it right now.
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Despite your best efforts it’s 2am and you’re still awake in bed, tossing and turning, too tired to get up but too awake to fall asleep. You’ve counted the sheep, sipped warm milk, but nothing seems to help. Author and former Gadgeteer staff writer Cobin Rox might have some words to help you out – [...]
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Browsing the web at work? Found an article you’d really like to read but don’t have the time to do it now, and you’d rather read it tonight in bed on your Kindle Paperwhite? Amazon has Send to Kindle browser extensions for both Firefox and Chrome. Install the extension, tell it a few things like what [...]
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Amazon has just released their first software update (5.3.0) for their new Kindle Paperwhite . New features in the update include: Improved Fonts: We have made changes to Palatino, Baskerville, and Futura fonts to make them look even better on Kindle Paperwhite. You will notice this when reading books, as well as in menus. We’ve also [...]
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For the last two years I’ve been more than happy with my Kindle Keyboard (3) 3G and haven’t seen the need to upgrade to any of the newer Kindle versions. Smaller size or touch interface never seemed to be a driving factor to warrant spending the extra money on an “upgrade”. However as someone who [...]
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For a true cross-platform interoperability reading experience you really can’t beat Amazon’s ”eco-system”. Well Windows 8 users won’t miss out on their Amazon books either, as Amazon releases its Kindle Reader for Windows 8. Available from the Windows 8 app Store, the reader supports both Windows 8 and Windows RT. And it supports all the functionality we’ve [...]
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Giving someone a gift card is super convenient way to let them know you care by giving them a gift. They are easy to buy don’t require you to wrap them. Now you can give someone the gift of your favorite book. Livrada is an eBook gift card service that has teamed up with Target [...]
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Amazon might have just released a bunch of new Kindles but they haven’t forgotten the Kindle 3 (Keyboard). Amazon has released a new firmware update for this model. Firmware update 3.4 includes: Improved Font: We’ve improved the reading font to have more contrast and be more crisp. Parental Controls: With the latest software update for Kindle [...]
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The Swivel ProFolio case for the Kindle Fire eBook reader from Us+U is a case that will transform itself to fit your various usage styles. A self-adjusting hand strap makes sure you can keep a firm grip as you read your favorite books. When you’re ready for some entertainment, a built in pivot gives you 360 degrees [...]
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We reported on Amazon’s Send to Kindle for PC utility when it was released, and now Amazon has released their Send to Kindle for Mac client. Send personal documents to your Kindle from your Mac. Drag and drop one or more documents on to the Send to Kindle icon in your Dock or launch the application and [...]
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At this point in time Amazon will only ship the Kindle Touch WiFi to Australia. Up for preorder now on both BigW and Dick Smith is the Touch WiFi for $185AU for release on March 5th and the Touch 3G for $249AU for release on the 13th of March. The only question I’ve got is why ? To grab [...]
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Gadgeteer reader Sandee Cohen writes in with some potentially good news for Amazon Kindle Keyboard owners: Julie, You might want to write this up as a post. I got a Kindle Keyboard model Christmas 2010. ByNovember 2011, some of the letters on the keyboard had started to fade. (I play a lot of word games [...]
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In my article Amazon Kindle 3G-The Perfect Travel Companion, I talked about how useful I found my 3G Kindle while travelling overseas. One of the comments left on that article pointed to a blog that said that Vietnam was one of the only places that the author couldn’t get any 3G signal. This confused the heck [...]
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I love my Kindle, and I love the Amazon ecosystem for the purchase and reading of novels but did you know that you can extend the functionality of your Kindle way beyond that? The Kindles supports more than just Amazon’s .AZW book format (basically a .MOBI with Digital Rights Management-DRM). From the web site the Kindle [...]
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Send a lot of personal documents to your Kindle but sick of mucking around with emails to get them there? Amazon has just released the free Send to Kindle for PC application. Using Windows Explorer, right click on any supported file format (.doc, .docx, .txt, .rtf,.jpeg, .jpg, .gif, .png, .gmp, .pdf) , and Send to Kindle [...]
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An e-reader should be pretty simple to review, one like the Kindle Touch that has only two buttons even more so. Amazon‘s ebook reader has one primary task: displaying the pages of the reader’s books. Sure, there are other features of importance like availability of content, size and weight, and overall usability issues. But in [...]
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Sakroots is the name for a line of accessories from The Sak handbag company. Shown here is the Artist Circle E-Reader Case for Kindle, Kindle Touch, and the Nook Simple Touch. These fabric cases are made of coated canvas, trimmed with polyurethane, and lined with polyester. The case closes with a zipper, and all hardware [...]
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Not long ago, Amazon made it possible for you to borrow books from participating libraries, and now they’ve introduced the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library. To participate, you must be an Amazon Prime member, and it appears you must own an actual Kindle. There are 5000 titles available now, including 100 current and former New York [...]
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Love the new Amazon Kindle lines but just can’t justify upgrading to the latest version because your old version still does the job perfectly well? Now you can trade your old Kindle (or other e-reader that that matter) using the Amazon trade-in program. Just enter the model and condition of your old faithful friend and receive a gift card ranging from [...]
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