The Kindle is a dedicated eBook reader. It’s focused on reading, and built from the ground up to be a good reading device. However, there are quite a few non-reading related things you can do with it. Ran into an article that mentioned 5 things – playing games, surfing the Net, using InstaPaper, text to speech, social [...]
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The Kindle, and its success, are just a small portion of the huge transformation that’s going on in Books and Publishing. What Kindle is doing is shiny and beautiful and admirable. Yet, the transformation is much, much bigger and very dark and scary. It’s the end of the Book World as we know it. And it doesn’t feel [...]
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The Kindle and the Nook Color are both on a roll. Kindle 3 and Kindle WiFi are clearly a step ahead of other dedicated eReaders – Unless B&N produces a stellar Nook 2 the majority of hard-core readers are going to end up as Kindle owners. Nook Color has managed to create a unique niche for itself – the [...]
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For your Kindle, here are some good deals – Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith. Price: $2.99. Genre: Thriller, Serial Killers. Rated 4.5 stars on 308 reviews. It’s set in the Soviet Union in 1953, and stars a war hero trying to unmask a serial killer. The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Price: $5. Genre: Literary Fiction, Postapocalyptic, [...]
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