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NEVER ANNOY A LIBRARIAN
We stupidly questioned the quota limitations on downloading electronic books at libraries and quickly heard from every librarian in the known universe. Some got right to the point, others approached it...
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THE KINDLE MILLION CLUB
John Locke, a well known author of sex and violence thrillers, is the first person to sell a million self-published books on the Amazon Kindle. He joins Steigg Larson, James Patterson and Amanda...
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A KINDLE WITH ADS IS A BEST SELLER
A new Kindle eReader that has ads sells for $114 and is handily outselling the $139 Kindle 3, which does not carry ads. Is it because people want to save the $25? Maybe not. Quite a few people with...
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LOTS OF FREE BOOKS
A storehouse of three million free titles from the Google digital library may tempt us to get the new iRiver EBook reader. Target is selling it for $140. The reader is called “Story HD” and it looks...
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WHERE’S THE FIRE?
Now that we have a Kindle Fire and an iPad, we’ll add our own opinions on which to get: Should you spend $499 or more for the iPad 2 or will the $199 Kindle Fire be enough? We have both tablets, so...
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APP HAPPY ON THE KINDLE FIRE
You just got a new Kindle Fire or Android tablet for Christmas. What apps might you consider first? Any.DO is the web site for a free to-do list that includes voice recognition. Tell it to remember to...
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BOOK BORROWING ON THE KINDLE
When Joy showed Bob an advanced yoga move at the dining room table, she broke her Kindle 3 when her heel slammed down on the screen. Whoops. So we replaced it (the gadget, not the foot) with a new $79...
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KINDLE COVERS
Joy loves having a reading light on her Kindle 4. Sure it’s great that you can read the Kindle’s e-ink screen in bright sunlight, but sometimes you want to read it under the covers. We bought the...
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BOOKS: KINDLE FIRE
Amazon’s Kindle Fire has 54 percent of the Android tablet market. (The Barnes and Noble “Nook” is considered an e-Reader, rather than a tablet.) With that in mind, we thought it a good idea to take a...
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E-READER DECISION
Google Nexus 7 Some readers have asked our opinion about whether to buy a Kindle, a Nook, an iPad or the new Google Nexus 7 for some home reading and viewing. So here’s our take. The first part of the...
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BACK TO SCHOOL
Boundless.com is being sued by textbook publishers for offering cut-rate and cut-down versions online. They cover 21 subjects and all the books are $20, which is quite a bargain compared to $100-200...
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THE IPAD MINI
Joy’s Kindle Fire went into a coma for several months and the battery wouldn’t charge. So we got an iPad Mini, a smaller version of the iPad for $278 from Amazon. Every reviewer says that if you’ve got...
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BATTERY
We heard from a reader who has a Kindle just like ours but its battery failed to take a charge. Amazon customer service told her to buy a new one, though her Kindle was only a year old. (They’re...
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KINDLE OR IPAD
We were at a launch party for “Suffer No Fools,” a new PBS documentary, when a guy asked us if he should get the latest Kindle or the new iPad Mini. This is a tough question – and he was a...
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BOOK EM!
Joy’s friend Frieda is going to France but leaving her Kindle behind for safe keeping. Joy said to her: “Why not use your phone as a Kindle?” Here’s how to do that: Start by downloading the Kindle app...
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READING IN BRIGHT SUNLIGHT
A reader wrote to say his wife has a Kindle and loves reading outdoors. His iPad costs hundreds of dollars more but he can’t read it in sunlight. “Not fair!” he said. “My wife grins at me as I...
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STILL HOT FOR THE LATEST KINDLE FIRE
When we briefly mentioned the new $50 Amazon “Kindle Fire” tablet, ours hadn’t arrived yet. Now that we have it, we’re more impressed than we expected. Here are a few things we haven’t seen in other...
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FIRE UP THE TABLET
Joy left her Kindle Fire tablet in the gym. At first we thought it was somewhere around the apartment but it never turned up. So she decided to bite the bullet and buy Amazon’s “Fire HD 10.” It’s $150...
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A NEW STIMULUS
There’s a new social network in town. It’s called “Stimulus.” They had me with “cash giveaways.” So far, Stimulus has given out over $100,000. In their welcome message, a middle-aged guy with a strong...
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KINDLE SCRIBE LETS YOU SCRIBBLE ON EBOOKS
I like to highlight passages in my ebooks. But if I get Amazon’s “Kindle Scribe,” I can also add my handwriting to the margins or even all over the page. The new tablet’s 10.2-inch screen, like the...
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