Mirage at the Kindle Oasis? Some users report issues with lighting, finish
Although many users are happy with their new Kindle Oasis readers, it seems a good many of them aren’t. A ten-page-and-growing thread has sprung up on MobileRead’s Kindle forum complaining about...
When will your Kindle Oasis e-reader arrive? MAYBE not until September. My sympathy, Merlot...
Mystery solved. Len Edgerly, host of the Kindle Chronicles, my favorite Kindle podcast, told me of two would-be Oasis customers cancelling their orders because the $289 e-readers wouldn't ship until September. I...
How to run Android 6 Marshmallow on a Nook HD
Well, here’s a surprise. Through no fault of my own, I managed to get Android 6.01 Marshmallow running on my Nook HD.
The guide I wrote to installing KitKat, then Lollipop, on...
Calibre breakthrough: Convert sideloaded e-books to the new Kindle KFX format offering enhanced typesetting
Want to be able to read sideloaded books in the fancy KFX format with your recent-model Kindle?
Craving for dropped caps, hyphenation, better kerning?
Now, even if a book didn’t come from the...
Steve Potash, OverDrive CEO and library e-book pioneer: A TeleRead interview
Steve Potash started digitizing books long before it was cool.
Now in his 60s, the CEO of OverDrive began digitizing law books in the 1970s, thinking this was the next big step in the publishing...
Kindle tips: Kindle Fire book download glitch
From A Kindle World Blog. Also in the article - disappearing ebooks and Read it Later app:
When a newly-purchased book won't download
Earlier I wrote about the solution two forumners found for a...
How-to: Use Instant Translations in Kindle Touch [Screenshots]
A new software for Kindle Touch (5.1.0 update) offers many great features and one of the most important ones, especially for international users, is a possibility to instantly translate the text...
Free ebooks from DigiLibraries
Got an email from Jonathan about this site for free ebooks. Don't know anything about it, but I thought I should pass it on.
Here's what they say about themselves:
DigiLibraries.com offers a...
Kindle hardware update adds Open Dyslexic font and more features, but where’s the all-text...
A new Kindle hardware update, v5.7.2, adds the Open Dyslexic font and other features listed below.
You’ll enjoy an improved home screen, for example, and speedier access to certain settings, including the...
Do coloring books work in e-book format?
I received an e-mail a few weeks ago from a friendly fellow Canadian asking me to review his coloring 'e-books.' I delightedly accepted---I like crafts and have a few paper coloring...
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A sad tale of Amazon monetization: eReaderIQ and the affiliate program
Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...
