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.
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