Are you looking for a stylish cover to protect your 3rd generation Kindle eReader? OCTOVO recently sent me their Vintage Leather Book Cover and it’s a keeper.
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Amazon announced today that they will be bringing library lending to the Kindle. No word on when this will be available, beyond “later this year”, but I think this is a huge change. They will be using the same system already in place with Overdrive. I reviewed this back in December. It will be interesting to see [...]
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Amazon is offering a special version of their current Kindle for $114.00 – $25 off the normal price. To get the discounted price, this version of the Kindle displays advertising on special screensavers and on a bar at the bottom of the home page. Amazon says this advertising doesn’t interfere with reading, and they even [...]
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Today Amazon announced a new sleeker, lighter and less expensive version of their popular eBook Reader. The new Kindle is priced at a very affordable $139 and is available in White or Graphite. Besides the obvious physical changes, the display is supposed to have 50% better contrast that previous versions, battery life is supposed to [...]
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Kindle 2/DX owners who also use covers that are attached by the eReader’s spine, may find the Cover Secure Clip from Smak-Dab useful. This small polymer coated stainless steel clip has been designed to prevent damage to the Kindle device from Amazon’s covers that utilize the spine hinge by keeping the back cover jacket attached [...]
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Here’s something for all our crafty DIY readers out there that also happen to own a Kindle eBook reader. It’s an article with 10 Kindle cases that you can build for free. The article includes links and instructions to various cases, like the one shown here using an old pair of jeans to make a [...]
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Amazon has just announced a new and improved version of their larger eBook reader, the Kindle DX. It has an improved screen, better battery life, free worldwide connectivity and is available in dark gray (to list some of the upgrades). Amazon’s Kindle continues to be the iPad’s biggest competition in the eReader game. Priced at [...]
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Not to be outdone by Barnes and Noble dropping nook prices, Amazon has a new price on their latest edition, 6″ Kindle with global wireless. It’s now $189.00, with free 2-day shipping. These announcements are good news for people who’ve been wanting an ebook reader!
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The new release of the Amazon Kindle firmware, 2.5, was downloaded to my Kindle DX the other day. (It has been steadily downloaded to Kindles over the past several weeks. If you own a Kindle, just turn on the wireless mode and then choose the Sync & Download New Items option.) Among other things, [...]
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M-Edge introduces the Guardian waterproof case for the Kindle 2. The Guardian is made of molded plastic and can be used in water up to 1 meter deep, from the bathtub, to the pool or ocean. It allows for full functionality of the Kindle’s navigation buttons and keyboard through flexible sealed button cutouts. Users can [...]
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As relentless as the e-reader trend has become, so to is our quest at the Gadgeteer to provide readers with even more ways to dress up their luxury literary devices. While the sleek, minimalist design of Amazon’s 2nd generation Kindle happens to be one of it’s most alluring features, sometimes we simply feel the urge [...]
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Amazon will soon be releasing a software upgrade which should provide a solution to one of the annoying nuisances of the device: the lack of a decent way to organize items. Currently, items on the Kindle are listed without sophisticated organization. Additionally, a zoom feature for PDF files is supposedly on its way. Currently, the [...]
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Amazon has released the long-anticipated “Kindle for Mac” app today. The application, which is free, allows users with or without a Kindle to access the 450,000 e-books from Amazon’s Kindle Store. If you are a Kindle user, you will experience a seamless integration between your Kindle device and the application on your Mac (Intel-based machines [...]
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JAVOedge has just released their new Spring line up of colorful cases for the Barnes & Noble Nook and Amazon Kindle 2 eBook Readers. They are offering faux Crocodile, cork pattern, floral, tweed and classic leather book style and flip style covers for both devices. The covers are available now through Amazon and prices vary [...]
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A Kindle-DX showed up on my door step after about a month from its original order date. Must have nookitis. I chose the Kindle-DX mainly because of the screen size, native PDF support, and I was accustomed to the Kindle user interface with my Kindle 1st generation. Plus the KDX is already available on the [...]
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Ebook readers that use E-ink displays like the Kindle and Nook are great gadgets, but they have one major shortcoming… You can’t use them in a dark room because they don’t have a back light. The folks at OCTOVO have designed a sleek LED light especially for the Kindle 2 that will be available at [...]
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