I came across an interesting help page at Amazon the other day that describes a product that I never heard of before: Kindle Cards. Apparently Kindle Cards are as rare as unicorns because I can’t find a shred of information about them anywhere outside of the help article. Using Google search pulls up one single […]
How to Print From an Amazon Fire Tablet
I came across a help page at Amazon the other day that explains how to print from an Amazon Fire tablet. Fire tablets can print all kinds of things, including emails, PDFs, calendar events, pictures, documents, web pages, notes, screenshots, and more. I’ve never been one to print anything from a tablet but the process […]
Amazon Closing Shelfari, Merging it with Goodreads
Last week Amazon revealed plans to close Shelfari, a social network for book lovers with various recommendation and sharing features. Ever since Amazon purchased Goodreads back in 2013, a similar but more popular service, the writing was on the wall (pardon the pun). Amazon has been neglecting Shelfari for years, and now it’s officially getting […]
How to Backup, Restore and Factory Reset Amazon Fire Tablets
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 […]
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 […]
Have E Ink Screens Reached Their Technological Peak?
This time of year I usually post a video from CES showing E Ink’s booth full of new ereading products and prototypes sporting E Ink displays. However, E Ink’s focus has gone farther and farther away from ereaders over the past few years. This year I haven’t seen a single video from CES showing anything […]
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. […]
Is Your eBook Reader or Tablet’s Battery Dying?
The great thing about ebooks is the fact that they can be copied and backed up and they don’t break down or degrade over time like paper books. The same thing can’t be said for the manner in which we read ebooks, however. Reading ebooks always requires using some degree electricity, even just a tiny […]