First off, I’d like to say that I love the Kindle Fire. And I don’t really see a good reason to root it, at least not for most users. Amazon really did do a great job with the OS. Kudos, guys & gals.
And If you have a Kindle Fire, you’re probably more interested in streaming [...]
I can’t believe it happened to me.
I was settling into bed, and I grabbed my Kindle for a little bedtime reading.
But boy was I in for a shock.
ACK! The screen was broken!
Turning it off and on didn’t fix the problem, nor did doing a reset or gently massaging the screen with my fingertips.
As you [...]
I had to reboot one of my computers, which a pretty rare occurrence around here.
The machine is a few years old Dell Dimension e520.
The problem: The computer wouldn’t reboot. After running through a little RAID dialog, the computer just hung, right after showing the message “Press Ctrl-I to enter configuration utility”.
The solution: I [...]
I’ve always thought that the Kindle has way too big of margins.
So much of the screen seems wasted on huge margins. Yeah, it produces a prettier pictures when photographing the Kindle, but if you prefer a little bit larger text size, these large margin cuts down on the number of words-per-page significantly.
I wanted those [...]
I’ve been hearing a lot about George W. Bush’s new book, Decision Points.
I’m not normally one for politically-themed reading, but I’m a sucker for presidential history, so I thought I’d pick up a copy.
I went to Amazon & was shocked to see that the Kindle edition is actually more expensive than the print version!
Are you [...]
Imagine that you wanted to give me $10 for reading this blog post. You saw it, you liked it, and you thought, “Hey, I want to hit that Eddie guy’s tip jar for $10.” Good for me, right? Now imagine if, upon seeing your $10 in my PayPal account, I refunded [...]
OK, maybe that title is a little harsh.
Perhaps a better title would be “When someone tells you they love their iPad because it functions as an eBook reader, you should be a little suspect of their claims, because they’re starting to sound like a fan-boy, simply parroting the ad-copy dreamed up in Cupertino, [...]
I use the awesome website Instapaper.com to keep track of articles that I want to read.
For those who aren’t in the know, Instapaper will take any website article, convert it to a readable format (that is, strip out ads, sidebars, and other extraneous crap), and store a link to it in your Instapaper account [...]
Who wants a nice listing of all of the books in their eBook collection?
I needed a list to share with a few friends, and even though I could have generated a simple directory listing, I wanted something a little nicer.
I found this tip over at the MobileRead forums.
If you use Calibre to manage your eBook [...]
The Kindle 1 has a couple of nice “clock hacks” that will show you the current time.
For instance, on the first generation Kindle, if you hit “Alt-T” on the main screen a clock will appear in the lower right hand corner.
Unfortunately, this doesn’t work on the Kindle 2 – hitting “Alt-T” does nothing.
There is a [...]
Had the strangest problem with my Kindle today. All of a sudden, my Recently Read Documents started showing up, well, backwards.
Not all of them – only the books I had recently read. So after I would read each book, it would disappear from the first page of my document listing.
At first I [...]
Kindlerama pointed me to an updated version of the old Kindle Screen Saver hack that lets you replace the boring stock screen saver images with images of your own.
Not that I object to the default Kindle screen savers – I rather like them, actually. But after staring at the same cycling images for over [...]
I’ve been using Calibre to manage my eBook library and download daily news to my Kindle. It’s great. If you have a Kindle or other eBook reader, I recommend that you check it out.
Calibre comes stocked with a number of “recipes” for popular news sites. One of those is the Associated Press (AP). Since [...]
I love my Kindle. And I love the Calibre eBook management software. If you haven’t had a chance to check out Calibre, you’re missing out – it’s kinda like an iTunes for your eBook collection. In addition to storing, converting, updating, and categorizing your eBook collection, the software will also download news [...]
Egad! My Kindle stopped charging!
I settled in to bed the other night and grabbed my Amazon Kindle, looking to pick up where I left off in The Hades Factor. I was met with a familiar “Your battery is running low” message, so I plugged the Kindle in to the charger for [...]
