http://thekindlechronicles.com A Friday Podcast All About the Kindle en LenEdgerly@gmail.com (Len Edgerly) Liberated Syndication - libsyn.com podcasts@libsyn.com (Liberated Syndication) Fri, 02 Jan 2009 05:03:00 GMT 180 A Podcast All About the Kindle Weekly podcast comprising News of the Kindle, Tech Tips, a "What's On Your Kindle?"interview with a guest, and a Kindle Quote. Produced by Len Edgerly, creator of the Audio Pod Chronicles and Video Pod Chronicles podcasts, who divides his time between Denver and Cambridge, Mass. Kindle books reading literature interviews Len Edgerly LenEdgerly@gmail.com Len Edgerly http://libsyn.com/podcasts/thekindlechronicles/images/Kindle_thumb.jpg http://thekindlechronicles.com Clean http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=418392# News - My own exclusive scuttlebutt which leads me to believe Amazon will start shipping the new version this month, ahead of the official announcement in February.

Tech Tip - Ever wonder how much further you have to read before reaching the end of a chapter?  This tip will help you find out.

Interview - Mike Elgan, widely read tech blogger and columnist, who puts the Kindle's phenomenal success in perspective and looks ahead to huge profits for Amazon from the Kindle.  (Part 1 of the interview is in this podcast, and part 2 follows in a Kindle Chronicles EXTRA.)

Quote - from the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. Downloaded from MobileRead

Comments - Rebecca, Nicholas Schutz,and Linda Hopkins (Amazon's Best of 2008 List)

If you'd like to be on the Kindle Chronicles Email Alert List, please send me an email at PodChronicles@Gmail.com .  I'll be doing a drawing for a $10 Amazon gift certificate, to be awarded at random to someone on the list.

Next week's interview: Leslie Nicoll, author of The Amazon Kindle FAQ.

You can leave an audio comment at 206-666-2713 or a text comment at PodChronicles@gmail.com
]]> Kindle Fri, 2 Jan 2009 05:03:00 GMT http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=418392# Len Edgerly Clean http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=418394# Mike Elgan.

Part 1 is contained in episode 24 of the Kindle Chronicles.

]]> Kindle Fri, 2 Jan 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=418394# Len Edgerly No http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=416488# News - New subscriptions available for the Kindle: USA Today and Narrative Magazine.  Also, new Kindle market intelligence from The New York Times.  A million Kindles sold?  Not according to Mark Mahaney in August.

Tech Tip - How to put content on your Kindle in the middle of Wyoming. Click here to see a map of Whispernet coverage.

Interview - Starbuck, the online name for an Army Captain, Blackhawk helicopter pilot, blogger and Kindle enthusiast serving in Irag.  Check out his Wings Over Iraq blog. What's on his Kindle: Moby Dick by Herman Melville, The Art of War by Sun Tzu, I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by Tucker Max, Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence

Kindle Quote - From Barack, Inc. by Barry Libert and Rick Faulk.

Comments - from Dorian Nisinson, Dan Meyers, Linda Hopkins, and John B.]]> Kindle Sat, 27 Dec 2008 01:24:00 GMT http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=416488# 00:29:00 Iraq Starbuck Kindle Obama Len Edgerly Clean http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=414741# News - Rand McNally introduces a Road Atlas specifically designed for the Kindle. Featuring a brief telephone interview with Joel Minster, Rand McNally's senior vice president and chief cartographer.

Tech Tip - Will DeLamater of EduKindle creates a sort of Kindle App - Notepad.

Interview - Joshua Tallent of Kindle Formatting talks about how to format books for the Kindle, Digital Rights Management, and other e-topics. Josh will be teaching a session in February at the O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing conference.  An example of his formatting work is Lost Sonnets of Cyrano de Bergerac.  The Medialoper's encounter with Jeff Bezos is described here.

Quote - from Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson.

Comments - Dan Meyer, John B, and Linda Hopkins.  

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Next week's interview, via Skype: Starbuck, the online name of an Army Captain on active duty in Iraq who always has his Kindle with him, the better to have something to read when unexpected wait times occur. 
]]> Kindle Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:03:00 GMT http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=414741# 00:32:00 Kindleformatting Len Edgerly Clean http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=412501# News - Publisher's Weekly puts Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos on its cover as "Person of the Year."

Tech Tip - No worries, yet, about ever being charged 10 cents when you convert a .pdf or other document to Kindle format for your Kindle via email.

Interview - Steve Shaw, creator of the Kindlelicious blog . What's on his Kindle: Blonde Faith by Walter Mosley, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengetsu, Spin Control by Chris Moriarty, The Red and the Black by Stendhal, The Prince by Machiavelli.

Quote - words of love from The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy. From the MobileReference Classic Books Collection.

Comments - Donna Smith via Linda Hopkins, Tali from Israel, Dan Meyers, Greg Keck, a Twitterer named Jason Packham, and a blogger named Munsey.

Music by "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording, courtesy of IODA Promonet.
]]> Kindle Sat, 13 Dec 2008 05:32:00 GMT http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=412501# 00:34:16 Kindlelicious "Steve Shaw" Kindle podcast Len Edgerly Clean http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=410162# News - Via Mike Elgan and HotelChatter.com , we learn that the famed Algonquin Hotel in New York City is loaning Kindles to guests.  Jan Zlendich of The Kindle Reader blog notes that 46 of the 50 titles on Bookmarks Magazine's list of the 50 best books of 2008 are available for the Kindle.

Tech Tip - Amazon Mobile on the iPhone/iPod Touch is pretty neat, but you can't use it yet to order a Kindle book.  For the adventurous - how to update your customized photo screensavers on the Kindle. (Thanks to MobileRead forum member Phuocle for the steps.)

Interview - Will DeLamater, creater of the EduKindle blog, has evidence that the Kindle is making inroads in schools.  Plus interesting educational developments for the Kindle in Utah and at the Harvard Medical School.

Quote - The beginning of The Dip by Seth Godin.  How to be a successful quitter.

Comments - Karen, Linda Hopkins, and Dan.

Upcoming interviews: Steve Shaw, creator of the Kindlelicious blog; Joshua Tallent of Kindle Formatting, and Capt. Crispin J. Burke, who is Kindling while on assignment in Iraq. 
]]> Kindle Fri, 5 Dec 2008 22:16:00 GMT http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=410162# 00:36:49 Kindle education schools Len Edgerly Clean http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=407871# News: The Kindle is sold out just in time for Christmas.  Will the one I ordered today turn out to be a Kindle 2.0? Should Amazon say so? Also, a secret New York Times memo reports more than 10,000 Kindle NYT subscriptions (thanks to Abhi for the tip), and Kindle NowNow is GoneGone. 

Tech Tip: Try pdfdownload.org for a one-click way to move web content to your Kindle.  The results won't always look as good as this, though.

Interview: Linda Hopkins, an engaged and engaging listener of the podcast from southern California. Her first Kindle read was Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. She subscribes to the following blogs: Amazon Daily (free), Reuters Health (99 cents a month) and Reuters Top Stories ($1.99).

Quote: Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Comments: Karen Hagglund and Dan.]]> Kindle Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=407871# 00:35:20 Kindle, pdfdownload.org, "Kindle 2.0" Len Edgerly Clean http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=405700# News - In a TechFlash Q&A, Ian Freed says no to video on the Kindle.

Tech Tip -Igor Skochinsky's motherload of Kindle tech stuff.

Interview - Sriram K. Peruvemba, Vice President of Marketing at E Ink Corporation, interviewed at the company's headquarters in Cambridge, Mass.  The audio podcast contains excerpts of our conversation, and this video has the full interview.

Quote - "Senior Moment" by Dana Milbank of The Washington Post.

Comments - Audio from Peggy, text from Julie Booth.

]]> Kindle Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:04:00 GMT http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=405700# Len Edgerly No http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=402989# News: Thanks to listener Linda Hopkins, we learn from Amazon that Kindle samples are NOT designed to timeout.

Tech Tip: How to put [20,000] 2,000 classics on your Kindle using MobileReference (thanks to Nick for suggesting this one) -
1.    Connect your Kindle to your computer with USB cable.
2.    In your computerâs web browser, go to MobileReference
3.    In the main area of the web site, not the column on the left, scroll down to the section titled âFiction Books.â
4.    In the last subcategory of that section, titled âCollection:â, click on âClassic Books Collection. Over 2,000 complete works. Only $19.99.â
5.    For use on the Kindle, it doesnât seem to matter which platform you choose; Iâve just tested the âDesktop/Notebook/Tablet PCâ platform, and that worked fine.  So in the row for âDesktop/Notebook/Tablet PCâ platform, go over one column to the âTrial Versionâ column and click âDownload Now.â
6.    You will be asked to enter your email address, so do that and then click on the green âDownload Applicationâ button.
7.    On the next screen, click on the live link which says âClick here to download: Best-Selling Classic Books Collection. Over 2000 complete works. FREE biographies and works in trialâ
8.    From here, what you see will depend on whether you are using a PC or Mac, but the essentials are the same as with any other download from the Internet that you do on your computer.  For the Mac, I see a dialog box saying, âYou have chosen to open classicstrial103.zipâ which is a zipped file containing numerous separate items.  I click on âOKâ to open it with Stuffit Expander.  However your computer works, your goal is to be able to find a folder on your hard drive titled âClassicsTrialâ.  Mine shows up in a Downloads folder.
9.    Open a window that shows you the âClassicsTrialâ folder you just downloaded, and then open that folder so you can see all the items in it, beginning with âAlexandreDumasDEMO.prcâ and ending with âWilliamShakespeareDEMO.prc.â
10.    Open another window that shows the Kindle icon, which you should see because your Kindle is attached to the computer by the USB cable.
11.    Doubleclick the Kindle icon, so you can see five folders, including the one labeled âDocuments.â
12.    Drag the âClassicsTrialâ folder into the âDocumentsâ folder of your Kindle.   I just tried this on my MacBook Air, and it worked fine â I assume the same process will work on a PC, but if you run into trouble you might try selecting all the individual books in the âClassicsTrialâ folder and dragging them in one big bunch into the âDocumentsâ folder.
13.    Once you have the âClassicsTrialâ contents in the Documents folder of your Kindle, safely eject the Kindle icon and then unplug the USB cable.
14.    Checking on your Home screen, youâll now see about three added pages of demo versions of classic books. 
15.    Iâm pretty sure that once you sample some of the demo books, youâll want to spend the $19.99 to purchase the actual collection.  Iâm going to do that now but make sure they go to my SD card, to keep my main Kindle.
16.    The purchase process via Handango is routine, and you donât have to wait for a registration code.  The folder is called âClassicsFullâ . Itâs about 115 megabytes in size, so even with my speedy Comcast connection (31 megabits per second when I was doing the download last weekend) â it took a while for it all to load to my computer, and then another few minutes for it to load from the computer to the Kindle.
17.    Iâve got a 1 GigaByte SD card in my Kindle. After adding 2,000 classics Iâve got  838 MB left, or room for another 16,000 classics on a storage device that cost me less than $20.
18.    One thing I donât like is that all these new titles appear in my Home pages on the Kindle, even though I put them on the SD card.  At least they are gathered by author, so you click on an author to see all the titles he or she wrote.
19.    All in all this is a great resource, and I want to thank Nick for suggesting that I follow the process for this weekâs Tech Tip.

Interview: Jason Pontin, editor-in-chief and publisher of MIT's Technology Review, a rising star in the Kindle Store.

Quote: "The Lady with the Dog" by Anton Chekhov.

Comments: Bob Boyken, Jim Brooks, Gail Scott, Julie Booth and Will D.


]]> Kindle Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:00:00 GMT http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=402989# 00:42:00 Kindle Len Edgerly Clean http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=400876# News: Case of the disappearing Kindle Store sample, from Joe Wikert's Kindleville blog.

Tech Tip: From David Emberson's Kindle Cookbook, a clever keyboard shortcut that zooms you through books 1/20th at a time.

Interview: My wife's opinion of her Kindle improves during her first month of use, despite her biggest fear coming true.  NOTE: If you know some great sources for contemporary mystery writers for the Kindle, please let me know, so I can pass them along to Darlene.

Quote: from a book about Afghanistan being read this week by the President-Elect, Ghost Wars by Steve Coll.

Comments: Do you read YOUR Kindle during takeoff and landing?  And, good news on book sales from David Emberson.

Please feel free to leave me a voice comment by calling 206-666-2713 or a text comment at PodChronicles@gmail.com or as a comment here on the show notes page.
]]> Kindle Sat, 8 Nov 2008 04:55:00 GMT http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=400876# 00:27:40 Mysteries Kindle "Ghost Wars" Len Edgerly Clean http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=398493# News: The Motley Fool asserts that Oprah has saved Amazon.

Tech Tip: What are those white boxes to the right of some items on the home screen?

Interview: Dave Emberson, author of The Kindle Cookbook: How to Do Everything the Manual Doesn't Tell You.

Quote: Technology Review's editor Jason Pontin has some advice for the next president.

Comments: Stephen Windwalker, Kesler Woodward, and Linda Hopkins.

You can leave a voice comment by calling 206-666-2713 or by emailing me an .mp3 audio file at PodChronicles@gmail.com .  You can leave text comments at that email address or here on the show notes page. I'd love to hear from you!

Music for my podcast is âRa-Monkâ by Eval Manigat on the âVariations in Time: A Jazz Perspectiveâ CD by Public Transit Recording, courtesy of IODA Promonet.
]]> Kindle Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:14:00 GMT http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=398493# 00:36:54 Kindle "Dave Emberson" Amazon Oprah "Technology Review" "Jason Pontin" Len Edgerly Clean http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=396121# Kindle News: Oprah gets behind the Kindle in a big way, including a $50-off coupon good till November 1st. Also, Amazon reports that 10 percent of its total book titles sold are in Kindle format.

Tech Tip: From The Kindle Cookbook by David Emberson, how to put the MobileRead guide on your Kindle for free book downloads.  (Other good Kindle guides mentioned: Decoding the Kindle by Jim Cheshire and Complete User's Guide to the Amazing Amazon Kindle by Stephen Windwalker.

Interview: Evan Schnittman, vice president of business development at Oxford University Press, speculates on why November 19, 2008 may be another big day in the history of the Kindle.

Kindle Quote: Don Juan by Lord Byron, in French.

Comment: Linda Hopkins finds the most expensive book available at the Kindle Store.  Be careful before you click on "purchase".....

I'd love to hear your comments. You can leave a voice message at 206-666-2713 or email me at PodChronicles@gmail.com .
]]> Kindle Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:01:00 GMT http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=396121# Len Edgerly No http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=393455# Amazon Kindle, Books and Amazon News Blog and the Kindle Social Network for Book Lovers, talks to me from London and details how you can win a free Kindle if you join and participate in his social network before the end of October.

Kindle Quote: The Nigger of Narcissus by Joseph Conrad.

Kindle Comment: A promising overture from someone at Amazon...



]]> Kindle Sat, 18 Oct 2008 02:16:00 GMT http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=393455# Len Edgerly No http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=390024# Faked Photos or a real look at the Kindle 2?

Tech Tip: A recent newbie (me) walks you around the Kindle Korner Yahoo group.

Interview: Laurel Hicks, a moderator of Kindle Korner. On her Kindle: War and Peace by Tolstoy, Works of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov from MobileReference and the blogs Opinionated and An Unamplified Voice, an opera blog.

Kindle Quote: Mmm-good: Campbell Soup fares pretty well in the financial debacle.  An article in Investor's Business Daily.

Comments: Linda Hopkins, Jimmy Buffet video, and a good correction from Greg. 
]]> Kindle Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:37:00 GMT http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=390024# Len Edgerly No http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=387205# Forbes gets it wrong on the iPhone v. the Kindle.

Tech Tip: How to find out there's no Whispernet in Missoula, Montana. Click here for Sprint coverage map.

Interview: My wife, Darlene, opens her Kindle and starts using it.

Quote: The Faith of Barack Obama by Stephen Mansfield.

Comments: Bob Boyken, Sang-Won Kim, Heather Hollick, and Linda.]]> Kindle Fri, 3 Oct 2008 13:51:00 GMT http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=387205# Len Edgerly No http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=384998#
Tech Tip: A light for reading your Kindle in bed when your spouse is trying to sleep.

Interview: Jim Cheshire, author of Decoding the Kindle.

Kindle Quote: from Spirit House, a Vincent Calvino Novel by Christopher G. Moore.

Kindle Comments: audio from Bryan Person, comments on the show notes page from Greg Pyles and Paul. 
]]> Kindle Sat, 27 Sep 2008 04:31:00 GMT http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=384998# "Jim Cheshire" "Decoding the Kindle" Kindle Len Edgerly Clean http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=382426# Kindle News: Forbes reports on two more would-be Kindle Killers from Plastic Logic and iRex Technologies.

Tech Tip: My 79-year-old mother's clever idea for printing a Kindle page didn't pan out, but I did learn about the expanded location tool from Jim Cheshire's new book, Decoding the Kindle.
 
Interview: Andy Ihnatko, technology columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times.

Kindle Quote: from McCain's Promise: Aboard the Straight Talk Express with John McCain and a Whole Bunch of Actual Reporters, Thinking about Hope by the late David Foster Wallace and Jacob Weisberg.

Kindle Comments: Rusty from the show notes page and an audio comment from Paul Higginbotham. 

Music for my podcast is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording, courtesy of IODA Promonet.

To leave an audio comment, please call 206-666-2713.  Email: PodChronicles@gmail.com .

Photo of Andy Ihnatko at MacWorld 2008 by Nonie from Melburne, Australia.  Creative Commons Attribution 2.0.  via Wikipedia
]]> Kindle Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:27:00 GMT http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=382426# Len Edgerly No http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=377496# Kindle News: Kindle snags exclusive for new biographies of Michelle Obama and Cindy McCain.  Jim Cheshire's Decoding the Kindle is released.

Tech Tip: How to highlight a section of text which begins on one screen and ends on the next. Also, Jan Zlendich's tip for helping your Kindle make it home if you leave it somewhere.

The "What's on Your Kindle Interview?": Heather Hollick of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with a clever way to move lots of reading material from the web to the Kindle as .pdf files.  UPDATE: Here are some items on Heather's Kindle:
   Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
   Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life by Steve Martin
   The Huffington Post blog.

Kindle Quote: Human Smoke by Nicholson Baker.

Kindle Comments: Al, and Bryce Craig of Santa Barbara, California.

Music for my podcast is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording, courtesy of IODA Promonet.

To leave an audio comment, please call 206-666-2713.  Email: PodChronicles@gmail.com .
]]> Kindle Sat, 13 Sep 2008 05:43:00 GMT http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=377496# Kindle, Len Edgerly Clean http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=375232# Kindle News: Andy Ihnatko's possibly prophetic piece in Macworld titled, "How Apple Could Make e-books work and why Steve Jobs could do what Jeff Bezos hasn't."

Tech Tip: How to put your Kindle on cruise control.  (Hat tip to chelsea etitameh on the Kindle  Korner Yahoo Group. )

The "What's On Your Kindle?" Interview: Jan Zlendich of Tucson, Arizona, created The Kindle Reader blog while she waited for her Kindle to arrive last year.  In our phone interview on September 3, 2008, she gives a librarian's literate view of the Kindle.  Among the items on her 55 pages of Home screen are the following:  Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar...: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes by Daniel Klein, "Shade" a short story by Stephen Gould available for free download in Kindle format (Mobipocket) from Tor, Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 2,730 Pages by Ammon Shea, and subscriptions to Time, Asimov's Science Fiction, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and the blog TVNewser .

Kindle Quote: from The Nigger of Narcissus by Joseph Conrad, a free download from Feedbooks.  Beginning at Locations 409-14.

Kindle Comments by Bruce Kessel (who linked to NYT story putting end to rumor of new Kindle this year), dorianN and Patricia Hawn.

Music for my podcast is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording, courtesy of IODA Promonet.

To leave an audio comment, please call 206-666-2713.  Email: PodChronicles@gmail.com .
]]> Kindle Sat, 6 Sep 2008 05:15:00 GMT http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=375232# Kindle Len Edgerly Clean http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=372810# Kindle News: We have fresh rumors of new student-oriented Kindle models coming as soon as September from Andrea James of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Peter Burrows of Business Week's The Tech Beat.  This led John C. Dvorak to increase the warmth of his Kindle assessment compared with his initial scoffing on This Week in Tech just after the Kindle was introduced.  (Note to social-network savvy Amazon exec if you're listening to this podcast: feel free to call me at 303-919-7187 if you'd like to arrange for The Kindle Chronicles to evaluate a review unit of the any new Kindle...)

LATE-BREAKING REPORT WHICH DIDN'T MAKE THE PODCAST: Via Jim Cheshire, I see the New York Times today is quoting Craig Berman, Amazonâs chief spokesman, as saying, "One thing I can tell you for sure is that there will be NO new version of the Kindle this year. A new version is possible sometime next year at the earliest.â I hope that's just smoke.

Tech Tip: Adrienne Cousins on the Yahoo Kindle Korner group has posted several bookmark files which make it much easier to reach web sites on the Kindle. Also, Jim Cheshire of DecodingTheKindle recommends Skweezer to format blogs for quicker and cleaner viewing on the Kindle. Hat tip to Stephen Windwalker for suggesting Adrienne's bookmarks.

The "What's on Your Kindle?" Interview: My guest this week is Randal L. Schwartz of Stonehenge. We met at a photography workshop last week conducted by Chris Marquardt of the Tips from the Top Floor podcast.   Randal recommends Baen Books as a great source of inexpensive quality books for the Kindle, especially in the science fiction category.  A favorite of his is James P. Hogan.

Kindle Quote: "Fear Oratory Will Be Obama's Undoing" by Edward Luce.

Kindle Comments by Bob Boyken, RobinTX and Steven Schwindt.

Music for my podcast is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording, courtesy of IODA Promonet.

]]> Kindle Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:23:00 GMT http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=372810# Len Edgerly No http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=370693# Joe Wikert, creator of the Kindleville blog and vice president & executive publisher within the Professional Trade Division of John Wiley & Sons.  Here is some of what's on Joe's Kindle:
Subscriptions to The New York Times and Time Magazine
Samples of Predictably Irrational, Obsessive Branding Disorder, and Nice Guys Can Get the Corner Office

Kindle News - The Financial Times arrives! The EFF asks tough questions of the publishing industry.  Seth Godin gets skeptical.

Kindle Tech Tip - QuickFics points us to EchoDitto's fix for partial RSS feeds.  And the difference between Previous Page and Back.

Kindle Quote - I can't believe I'm quoting this book...

Kindle Comments - dorianN tells how her Kindle saved her from what could have been a very sad fate.  Heather Hollick wins a prize for saving a podcaster from laziness.

Music for my podcast is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording, courtesy of IODA Promonet.
]]> Kindle Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:31:00 GMT http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=370693# Kindle, "Joe Wikert", "The Obama Nation" Len Edgerly Clean http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=370686# ]]> Kindle Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:30:00 GMT http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=370686# Wikert Kindleville Kindle Len Edgerly No http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=368777#

]]> Kindle Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:31:00 GMT http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=368777# Len Edgerly No http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=368747# Bill Bulger, 74, a legendary Massachusetts politician from South Boston who served 17 years as president of the state Senate and 7 years as president of the University of Massachusetts.  We visited at his home, and afterward his wife, Mary, revealed exactly why she bought her husband a Kindle.  His book is not in Kindle version yet - click on the link to let his publisher know you'd like that changed!  

UPDATE: Two items on Bill Bulger's Kindle are Change Your Brain, Change Your Life by Daniel G. Amen and Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Stories by Elmore Leonard.

Kindle News: The financial analyst heard round the Kindlesphere-reverberations from a Citi analyst's doubling of his earlier estimate of Kindle sales this year and NYT perspective here; Amazon adds a way to ping publishers who are not yet on the Kindle train (an item from Cush), and how 17 syllables might win you a Kindle.

Tech Tip: Do's and Don'ts with an SD card, including screenshot tip from Stephen Windwalker.  More on using FeedBooks for free RSS feeds.

Kindle Quote: from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beacher Stowe

Kindle Comment: Cory in Fla

New contest: the first person whose audio comment I use on the next episode will receive a $10 gift certificate at the Amazon Store.  Phone in your coment to 206-666-2713 or attach an .mp3 file to email to PodChronicles@gmail.com. I also welcome text comments here or at the email address.   Thanks for listening!

Special audio extra: Bill Bulger singing a solo with the Boston Symphony.
]]> Kindle Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:56:00 GMT http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=368747# Bulger, Kindle Len Edgerly No http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=366877# ]]> Kindle Fri, 8 Aug 2008 21:53:00 GMT http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=366877# Len Edgerly No http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=366875# Kindle News:
Electronic newspaper readers in Germany and France, as well Dave Lester's Treeless Systems project in Denver that I profiled in a podcast two years ago.
A rosy view of the Kindle's future sales and one not so rosy.
One thing NOT to do with your Kindle.
A Free Webinar, "Leveraging the Kindle - How to maximize the Kindle's benefits to your readers and your business," by Joe Wikert set for August 21, 2008 at 11 a.m. ET.   Joe is author of the Kindleville blog.

Kindle Tech Tip:
How to use FeedBooks to load RSS news feeds onto your Kindle for free.

The "What's on Your Kindle Interview?" - Stephen Windwalker, author of the current Number 10 Kindle seller, How to Use the Amazon Kindle for Email & Over 100 Pages of Other Cool Tips (The Complete User's Guide to the Amazing Amazon Kindle. I taped the interview after lunch on August 6, 2008, at Casablanca in Harvard Square, Cambridge.  Steve describes his experience writing for the Kindle and tells what changes he hopes to see in the next version.

Here is some of what's on his 14 pages of Kindle titles:
The TechCrunch blog
The Senator's Wife by Sue Miller
Free Amazon Daily Blog
The New York Times

Kindle Quote: Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky.

Kindle Comment: Bob Boyken of Bloomington, Indiana

Phone comment line: 206-666-2713.  Please call and leave a comment, suggest someone for a "What's on Your Kindle Interview?" or offer ideas to improve this podcast.  I look forward to hearing from you!

UPDATE: Click Here for .mp3 file. (Thanks to FeedBooks co-founder Hadrien Gardeur for the tip, which should enable us to read the full show notes on the Kindle and listen to podcast at the same time.  I'm going to try it now....)
]]> Kindle Fri, 8 Aug 2008 21:29:00 GMT http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=366875# PodChronicles@gmail.com Kindle, Len Edgerly Clean http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=364703# The "What's on Your Kindle?" Interview: A telephone conversation with C.C. Chapman, who runs a digital marketing company called The Advance Guard and is host of the Accident Hash, Managing the Gray and U-Turn Cafe podcasts.  His informative comments include how he uses the Kindle to inspire him onward in writing a current manuscript.  What's on C.C's Kindle: subscriptions to The Boston Globe and Newsweek and Time magazines, Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith, personal .pdf documents, two books he can't talk about, and a manuscript he's working on.

Kindle News: Spirit House, a Christopher G. Moore novel being offered for free on the Kindle through Aug. 28th, Josh Quittner's glowing Kindle review in Time, the Kindle Social Network, and my fruitless hunt for independent confirmation of the CrunchGear rumor of a new Kindle coming in October.

Tech Tips: a hardware fix at 30K feet, keyboard shortcuts, and how to change the text justification. 

Kindle Quote: inspiring words from The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie.

Kindle Comments: SCG, Baratunde Thurston, and Kesler Woodward.
 
Music for the podcast is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording, courtesy of IODA Promonet.

I'd REALLY like to include your feedback in this podcast, so please don't be shy: leave a comment at 206-666-2713 or email an audio file or text message to me at PodChronicles@gmail.com, or leave a comment here.

The Kindle Chronicles is now listed for free subscription at the iTunes Store.  Please leave a comment!
]]> Kindle Sat, 2 Aug 2008 01:23:00 GMT http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=364703# Kindle "CC Chapman" Len Edgerly No http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=364722# ]]> Kindle Fri, 1 Aug 2008 22:54:00 GMT http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=364722# Len Edgerly No http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=362808# The Onion's web-and-election wizard Baratunde Thurston, a comedian and blogger who offers great suggestions for a wished-for social network capability for the Kindle, and how the device has changed the way he reads.  Here is some of what's on Baratunde's Kindle:

The Scar by China Mieville
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky
The Daily Kos
treehugger
The Huffington Post
ReadWriteWeb
The New York Times

Also in this episode, News of rumors of a new Kindle in October, a Tech Tip for changing the images on your screen in sleep mode, and a Kindle Quote from Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin.
 
Music for the podcast is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording, courtesy of IODA Promonet.

I'd REALLY like to include listener feedback in this podcast, so please don't be shy: leave a comment at 206-666-2713 or email an audio file or text message to me at PodChronicles@gmail.com, or leave a message here in the comments.

Photo of Baratunde Thurston reading his Kindle on the subway is courtesy of Silicon Alley Insider. ]]> Kindle Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:11:00 GMT http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=362808# Len Edgerly No http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=362748# The Onion's web-and-election wizard Baratunde Thurston, a comedian and blogger who offers great suggestions for a wished-for social network capability for the Kindle, and how the device has changed the way he reads.  Here is some of what's on Baratunde's Kindle:

The Scar by China Mieville
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky
The Daily Kos
treehugger
The Huffington Post
ReadWriteWeb
The New York Times

Also in this episode, News of rumors of a new Kindle in October, a Tech Tip for changing the images on your screen in sleep mode, and a Kindle Quote from Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin.
 
Music for the podcast is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording, courtesy of IODA Promonet.

I'd REALLY like to include listener feedback in this podcast, so please don't be shy: leave a comment at 206-666-2713 or email an audio file or text message to me at PodChronicles@gmail.com, or leave a message here in the comments.

Photo of Baratunde Thurston reading his Kindle on the subway is courtesy of Silicon Alley Insider. ]]> Kindle Sun, 27 Jul 2008 05:51:00 GMT http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=362748# No http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=374515#
He and his wife divide their time between Denver and Cambridge, Mass.  He has been podcasting since December, 2006 at the Audio Pod Chronicles and Video Pod Chronicles. He has no affiliation with Amazon beyond that of an enthusiastic early purchaser of the Kindle.]]> About Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:36:00 GMT http://thekindlechronicles.com/index.php?post_id=374515# Len Edgerly No