Using a books Collection structure created on another Kindle There are various ways to add a collection structure you've created, for one Kindle, to a replacement or new Kindle on your account.  You don't have to start from scratch if you're replacing or adding a Kindle on or to your account. On the forums, I replied to someone who had 600~ books on the Kindle and asked how this is done, and I described the way I do it. I thought adding this as a blog entry could be useful. ' If Kindle Support sends you a replacement Kindle, be sure to keep...

The Bookseller reports that the Pottermore website has postponed the release of the Harry Potter e-books until the first half of 2012. The site’s web shop will now open in 2012 instead of early October as previously planned. Pottermore is also extending the beta-testing period of the website, and will now open registration to new users at the end of October....

From the Kobo blog: The latest updates for the Kobo eReader Touch (v1.9.11) and Kobo Desktop (v2.1.2) are ready to download! Update your Kobo eReader Touch for these exciting new features: Search within a book! You’ve asked for it and we listened — now you can search for terms inside of ePUB books. Share your reads on Facebook! Let your friends and family know what you are reading via your Facebook profile updates. New low battery icon! New low battery icon alerts let you know when you reach 10% and 5% of your battery life. The battery icon will remain...

New Features A Tips and Tricks blog at http://blog.calibre-ebook.com to introduce less well known calibre features in a simple way News download: Add list of articles in the downloaded issue to the comments metadata of the generated ebook. Makes it possible to search for a particular article in the calibre library. Toolbar buttons: You can now also right click the buttons to bring the popup of extra actions, in addition to clicking the small arrow next to the button. Amazon metadata download plugin: Add option to download metadata from amazon.es Driver for Vizio and iRobot A9 Android tablets When switching to/starting with...

More information has emerged about the Kobo Vox device we mentioned the other day, thanks to a quickly-yanked premature listing on Canadian Best Buy subsidiary Future Shop. The Vox will apparently be Kobo’s entry into the 7” color Android reader market currently occupied by the Nook Color and Kindle Fire. Judging from the specs on the listing, the Vox would have a 7”, 1024x600-resolution color LCD display; compatibility with Adobe DRM, ePUB, PDF, and Kobo e-book formats; 802.11b/g/n wifi; 8 GB internal memory plus an SD-card slot; and a speaker and headphone jack. Perhaps most intriguingly, the...

For ten more hours—or until it sells out, whichever comes first—Daily Steals is selling a refurbished Nook Color tablet for $149.99, including shipping. That’s a saving of $100 over the tablet’s current new list price, and $50 cheaper than the Kindle Fire’s list price. Given the Nook Color’s ease of rooting, those less interested in locking into Amazon’s ecosystem might want to give this a shot. I can’t recall ever seeing it listed cheaper. As with many sudden deep discount sales on refurbished items, this could herald the impending introduction of Barnes & Noble’s new models. Indeed, given the...

Amazon remade its Kindle edition of Neal Stephenson’s new novel Reamde, and is now getting reamed by disgruntled readers, GalleyCat and CNet report. The e-book had been pulled from the Kindle store on Tuesday, and today customers who had bought it received a cryptic (and ungrammatical) email from Amazon advising them that “the version you received had Missing Content that have (sic) been corrected.” The manner in which this correction was applied has upset customers such as Cynthia Ewer, who was 400 pages into the over-1,000-page novel, or cdale77 who was 500 pages in. They were not upset at...

Three quick Kindle stories courtesy of our sister blog Gadgetell: Office-supply store Staples is going to carry the new line of Kindles. It will have the $79 low-end Kindle with Special Offers available on October 8th, and will add the Kindle Touch ($99 Special Offers and $139 ad-free), Touch 3G, and Fire in November. The Kindle Keyboard with Special Offers will also remain available at its $99 price point. The Amazon Fire will have 100 exclusive digital graphic novels available from DC, including titles such as Watchmen, Superman: Earth One, and Batman: Arkham City that have never been digitally available before. It’s...

Ever since the decline of its original Palm line heralded the end of the true “PDA”, the various properties that once made up Palm have been the digital equivalent of hot potatoes. Consider Peanut Press, which started out as an independent e-bookstore, was owned by Palm for a while under the name “Palm Digital Media”, was spun off to NetLibrary and renamed “eReader”, and was eventually bought by competitor Fictionwise—which was then bought by Barnes & Noble to form the basis of its Nook e-readers. Now the latest anonymous rumor has it that the remnants of Palm itself, currently...

In our mission to simplify the Kindle world for you, we prepared another graphic tip about the new range of Kindle devices. This time we’d like to show which variants can be purchased from outside United States. Three models qualify for international shipment, all of them without special offers: - Kindle 4 – a brand new 5-button model » international landing page - Kindle Keyboard Wi-Fi (formerly Kindle 3) » international landing page - Kindle Keyboard Wi-Fi + 3G » international landing page The country list includes 177 destinations. Here you can check all of them. As we focus on...

As we wrote yesterday, out of three new Kindle devices only the basic 5-button model, Kindle 4, is available for international customers – and only the $109 version, the one without ads. When you click below on your country’s name, you’ll land immediately at the country-specific page at Kindle Store. Click on View country specific information to learn more about the number of publications available and important notes about the product. You can also see a box which tells that you can alternatively buy Kindle at other than US Kindle Store. For example users from Austria or Luxembourg...

From a DPLA Announcement: The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Steering Committee* has invited the creators of the following submissions to the DPLA Beta Sprint, an open call for code and concepts defining how the DPLA might operate, to present at the public plenary meetingtaking place on October 21, 2011 in Washington, DC: Digital Collaboration for America’s National Collections The Digital Collaboration demonstrates the ability of three disparate, major national institutions to work together through one unified search tool. Submitted by the National Archives, the Library of Congress, and the Smithsonian Institution.   DLF/DCC: DPLA Beta Sprint The DLF/DCC Beta...