How to send Instapaper articles to your Kindle
If you use Instapaper to clip interesting articles from the web for later perusal, did you know that you can have your Instapaper article collection sent to your Kindle every day?...
Is Amazon’s Kindle Oasis a complete waste of money?
That's one of the more active debates on the Kboards right now, kicked off by Kboards member denodan, who declares: "What a ripoff the Oasis about $100 more than the voyage....
Do you use Amazon’s VoiceView on your Fire? If not, here’s how
Amazon's new VoiceView text-to-speech technology, as recently explained by Peter Korn (at least for Kindles) on TeleRead, doesn't seem to have impinged much on e-reading awareness yet. Yes, it is relatively...
Sometimes, Amazon is a rip-off
We’re used to Amazon usually having the lowest prices on things, or at least—since the advent of agency pricing on e-books—the same price as everywhere else. But there are times when...
The Kindle Oasis: A doorway into awfulness?
A short but fascinating YouTube video, brought to light on the Kboards, reviews the Amazon Kindle Oasis in glowing terms - at least regarding its hardware. There's just one tiny problem....
Amazon’s Alexa browser page lets you test Echo for audiobooks, etc.
Not content with creating the new must-have gadget in the shape of the Echo, Amazon is now pushing its Alexa voice assistant technology into your browser. If you want to try...
Amazon Echo now available refurbished, but not very discounted
Well, it looks like that time you’ve been waiting for is at hand. If you wanted an Amazon Echo, but it cost too much to buy it new, you can now...
Allow second-hand e-book resale? No; lower e-book prices!
Prompted by an Ars Technica piece on Dutch bookseller Tom Kabinet, who’s been making waves in Europe for setting up a marketplace for second-hand e-books, Slashdot has posted an “Ask Slashdot”...
Kindle Sideloading, Part Three: Loading and managing your Kindle from Calibre
In previous installments of this guide, I’ve discussed using email to send e-books and files directly to your Kindle, or using a USB cable to copy e-books over from your computer....
Comixology Unlimited not quite as ‘unlimited’ as advertised
Amazon subsidiary Comixology has just launched a $5.99 per month “Comixology Unlimited” comic reading subscription plan, featuring thousands of comics from major publishers. None of those publishers are Marvel or DC,...