The Kindle for PC page has again been updated (see features of original, basic Kindle for PC) with the following new features: Download the new version to enjoy these new features. Real Page Numbers See real page numbers for thousands of books in the Kindle Store. Now you can easily reference and cite passages, and read alongside others in a book club or class. Popular Highlights See what our community of Kindle readers think are the most interesting passages in your books.  If several other readers have highlighted a particular passage, then that passage will be highlighted in your book. Touch...

NOTION INK'S ADAM, WITH PIXEL QI, VS KINDLE AND PANDIGITAL NOVEL IN DIRECT SUNLIGHT The long awaited Adam Tablet by Notion Ink has a combo display of LCD switchable with an E-Paper display, with backlighting Off. Good E-Reader Blog has a report and VIDEO and I've linked you to the larger YouTube one. Here's an image-link to another, separate video, by Charbax, that also shows the e-paper display with backlight off. When the backlight is On, the display is a sort of light blue-gray in the videos. Nevertheless, both videos show reflections from the glass from the lighting above. The first video gives you...

HOW TO USE KINDLE COLLECTIONS This is a folders-like feature available for Kindle 2's, DX's and Kindle 3's  (UK: K3's), implemented with 'tags' or category-labels (as seen with Google's GMail). I'm placing here, into one blog entry, some excerpts from some earlier pieces on Collections and may modify it over the next week or two. COLLECTIONS - BASICS Modified from steps given us by Marc Miwords . From Home, click on "Menu" . Go to "Add New Collection" . Name the Collection.  Repeat as wanted  * . Go to your listing of books or documents on the Home screen . On each title, push the 5 way controller to the right . From that...

A Story About Another School Trying Out Kindles In fact, 200 Kindles.  Nashville High School in Arkansas is using the Kindle in English classes, in hopes that it'll be possible to use them in other subject-areas as a replacement for paper textbooks. School officials hope it'll encourage students to read more (this is likely, as it's a common experience for those who use e-Ink devices) and do their school work "more efficiently."  For non-fiction books especially, the way the Search function works and also the way that Annotations are kept on both the device and the special password-protectedAnnotations webpage are a boon in...

A COUPLE OF INTERESTING STORIES Today, a strange piece of research by Crimson Hexagon on the relative frequency of chatter about various ereaders on Twitter gets stories by Daemon' Books, CNet, and others. The Nook and Nookcolor, the Kindle, and Twitter The study focuses on the effect of the entrance of the Nook and the NookColor this last year and looks at the amount of interest in it vs other readers based on Twitter conversations.  Yes, really.  While it emphasizes that there is much more conversation on the Kindle (UK: K3) than on the Nook and other e-readers See...

Be sure to read the earlier blog article on for details on a problem affecting some non-lighted Amazon Leather Kindle3 Covers and the U.S. Amazon Kindle team statement concerning a resolution for those affected by problem batches of the non-lighted Amazon Kindle-3 cover. If anyone has one of the covers that cause reboots, Amazon has been giving refunds on that and have also often added credit toward buying the lighted version of that cover if the customer has reported problems earlier.  The Amazon post giving instructions and phone numbers to use, for U.S. Kindle...

AMAZON KINDLE-EDITION BLOGS NOW ALLOW SUBSCRIBERS THE ABILITY TO FOLLOW LINKS THAT ARE CODED FOR "NEW WINDOWS" ("new tabs" on a computer web browser, but not recognized formerly in the Kindle Editions). This is a long-desired feature, and its absence in the new Kindle 3, despite its more capable web browser, was lamented. With this kind of link which is meant to bring you to another website via a new window while keeping the blog-website in place in the original window, we'd get a Kindle-edition blog error message instead, saying: "Web Browser could not open this link because opening multiple windows is not...

AMAZON HAS PLACED A SOFTWARE UPDATE ON THE SERVERS TONIGHT for all Kindles earlier than the Kindle-3 model but later than the Kindle 1, and it further refines the large update last summer which introduced Collections ('virtual folders" or category "tags") plus Pan & Zoom and several other features. This would be primarily a performance enhancement or maintenance update, as they have recommended this update privately to Kindle owners who reported a glitch or two at times, Amazon is now making it available for download if you want to get it earlier than you would...

Released December 21, there are four sets for Kindle now from which to choose: Vol. 1 30 World Famous Easy Puzzles Vol. 2 90 World Famous Easy Puzzles Vol. 3 30 World Famous Challenging Puzzles Vol. 4 90 World Famous Challenging Puzzles Current pricing is $1.99 for each 30-puzzle set and $4.99 for a set with 90-puzzles. As NY Times regulars know, the crossword puzzles that come out on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday are easier to do. By the end of each week, on Thursday and Friday, they get very 'challenging' (and I'm already challenged by the "easy" ones). Of interest to me was that the larger set...

On time too -- year end. This started as a preview of the new Kindle-book lending feature as described by Amazon. I tweeted this development, at about 3:45 PM PST after reading about it on the forums where it was already a busy message thread. That main Kindle Team Forum Announcement is at the Amazon Kindle Community forums, and I'm adding a bit more in this update with modifications to the earlier afternoon report . REMINDER: If your web browser (especially Firefox) drops you onto the Amazon Kindle Forum's list of topics instead of bringing you directly to a forum thread, click on Refresh or Reload to get...

CREATIVE USES OF THE KINDLE Well, pleasurable reading is good enough for most, but there is a lot more that can be done with the Kindle, as shown in the short list just below. (I recommend bookmarking this for quick access later.) 1. an old, continuing favorite forum thread about the more unique uses of the Kindle's capabilitiesthought up by members of the Amazon Kindle Community, and I saw another idea added today. 2. a newer forum thread of favorite tips for new Kindle owners from Kindle oldtimers. NOTE: If your web browser (especially Firefox) drops you onto the Amazon forum list of topics instead of bringing you...

Android Community's Chris Davies reports that there is a large Kindle for Android update today and as a result, it's now called Kindle for Android, v2.0 and is, as usual, a free download. The updated version now "includes newspaper and magazine support together with 'Move to SD Card' functionality enabled ... allows access to Amazon’s 100+ periodical titles, and shifts the Amazon store into the app itself rather than kicking you into the web version when you want to buy a new ebook. Meanwhile there’s also support for sharing your reading progress with social networks. The UI has been tweaked, with the option to use...