An important but often overlooked feature on Amazon’s line of Fire tablets is the ability to create daily automatic backups so that you can restore your data in case your Fire tablet is ever lost or damaged, or if you need to perform a factory reset for some reason or another. The backup feature saves […]
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10 Free Kindle Books – January 18th
Here’s another weekly roundup of 10 free highly-rated Kindle books. Amazon usually also has some Kindle-related sales that I post about too, but there’s nothing interesting going on today. They just have stuff they call a sale but it’s not really a sale (like the Kindle Voyage Essentials Bundle). Please note that the free Kindle […]
Moby Dick is Free eBook and Audiobook Combo – Whispersync for Voice
Amazon has a new free ebook and audiobook pair up for this month (even though they haven’t updated the link on their Whispersync for Voice page yet). This month’s freebie is Moby Dick: or, the White Whale. For a limited time you can get both the Kindle ebook and the professionally-narrated Audible audiobook for free. […]
Amazon Echo Can Now Read Kindle eBooks Using Text to Speech
Amazon recently added some new reader-friendly features to their Amazon Echo device. You can now have Alexa read aloud Kindle ebooks using text-to-speech. They also improved Audible audiobook playback control by adding voice commands for skipping chapters. The new text-to-speech feature works with your purchased Kindle ebooks and ebooks borrowed from the Kindle Owners’ Lending […]
10 Free Kindle eBooks and Magazine Deals
It’s time for another roundup of 10 free highly-rated Kindle books. Amazon also has some magazines on sale today as their main Deal of the Day. You can get a full year’s subscription to a number of magazines for just $5. Some are print only and some are print plus digital. Please note that the […]
Anyone Using New Blue Shade Feature on Fire Tablets?
Last month Amazon released an update for the newer line of Fire tablets that run Fire OS 5 to add a new Blue Shade feature, among other things. Blue Shade is intended to help improve nighttime reading on tablets by filtering blue light to help with sleep and lowering brightness levels for less eye strain. […]
Kindle Trade-In Promo Adds $20 Bonus Toward New Kindle Purchase
Amazon has started a new trade-in promotion where customers can trade an old Kindle, even a non-working one, to get a gift card plus a $20 bonus credit toward the purchase of a new Kindle. To be clear, this offer includes Kindle ereaders only, not Fire tablets. But all older Kindles are included, all the […]
Amazon Now Offers Option to Embed Book Previews on Sites and Apps
Amazon has started rolling out a new feature this week called Kindle instant previews that lets anyone embed full samples of books directly on third-party websites and apps. Kindle instant previews are similar to the “Look Inside” feature that Amazon offers on their website that lets customers preview samples of most books using a web […]