Monthly Archives: June 2008

A Kindle Tale: Junot Diaz and GTA IV

June 29, 2008

From the “this is what I’m talking about” department at EduKindle: I was reading the Weekend Journal on the Kindle (still on the free two-week Wall Street Journal trial) and saw a review of Grand Theft Auto IV by Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Junot Diaz. This guy can write: “for me, GTA IV is...
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The Power of the Kindle Book Sample

June 27, 2008

By willd

I love this tweet because it expresses my experience exactly: “Started Pillars of the Earth, as a sample on Kindle. At 11:30p end of sample so without taking head off pillow downloaded rest of book WOW!” From Twitter. What’s magical about a Kindle “sample” is that it gives you quite a bit to read,...
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Author Len Edgerly Reads Live From the Kindle in Boulder

June 24, 2008

By willd

Is it the first author reading by Kindle? Hear “Cold Turkey in Paradise: Twelve Days Off the Internet in Maho Bay” read by author Len Edgerly below and read the essay itself at Wazee: Len, how about a Kindle version so we can read it ourselves?
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Princeton U Press to Publish for Kindle

June 24, 2008

By willd

Here it comes, another segment of the publishing industry looking at the Kindle as a promising option. “The experimentation with Kindle comes at a time that many experts are urging university presses to try new business models,” says Inside Higher Ed. And The Subprime Solution: How Today’s Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to...
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How Do You Hold Your Kindle?

June 22, 2008

By willd

Hadn’t really thought of this as a debate, but some folks say left hand and some folks say right hand, with pictures to prove it. I think you can go either way: left-handed with your thumb on the word “Amazon” or right-handed with your thumb on the word “Kindle.” That cover on the back...
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Study Grammar on Your Kindle

June 22, 2008

By willd

Jan at The Kindle Reader has a great review on a book that educators might want to put on the Kindle right away, or maybe even share with students: Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing. You can get it right now from Amazon. (Apparently the Kindle version posted at Amazon early...
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Highlighting on the Kindle Across Pages

June 21, 2008

By willd

Can’t do it. If you hit scroll the select wheel up to a line on a page of text that you are reading and click it, a menu will pop up that offers the option to “Add Highlight.” When you click that selection, the Kindle will place a highlight line above the line of...
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Kindle, Schools, and the Love of Reading

June 20, 2008

By willd

Kelly asks on her blog: How about a Kindle’s impact on schools? Put a new Kindle in the hand of a child already pre-downloaded with some rich literature and watch their eyes light up on the first day of school. Will children discover a new love for reading? All I know is that I...
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Students Buying Books on School’s Kindle

June 17, 2008

By willd

Kathy Schrock has a great solution for the “credit card enabled” aspect of the Kindle: …since any user of the Kindle can purchase a new title from the Kindle store from the Kindle itself, we did not know how we were going to control students from purchasing books on a whim. We are solving...
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