Amazon recently announced an additional benefit of your Amazon Prime membership. It’s called Prime Reading, and it empowers Prime members to borrow up to 10 titles at a time from a selection of books, magazines, and comics. For example, if you have a Prime membership (and if you don’t, why don’t you?) you can now read the…
One Prime Benefit that Most Amazon Users Overlook
by Will DeLamater
Ten of the World’s Most Architecturally Stunning Libraries You’ve Never Seen
by Will DeLamater
Sometimes it takes a book. And then you have to keep them somewhere. These libraries in an article from Wired Magazine make the process of going to the library an aesthetic experience from the moment you arrive. Interesting that so many of them are in Scandinavia. In America, The Chicago Public Library is included. Which…
Five Ways to Improve Kindle Fire Battery Life
by Will DeLamater
Preview The Short Drop by Matthew Fitzsimmons – 5 Stars
by Will DeLamater
Sunday, with books: Das Rheingold, Thomas Perry, and Twilight of the Elites
by Will DeLamater
I had to move Sunday with books over to Edukindle this week due to server maintenance at eReadups. Looking though dusty stacks of vinyl records yesterday we came upon a set of disks of Wagner’s Das Rheingold. The records themselves looked clean so we picked them up. Back at home, we dug out the old…
Man bites dog (and Amazon opens a bookstore)
by Will DeLamater
The irony is almost painful. Sure, it’s a “who’da thunk” moment, wrapped in the mysteries of the greatest disruptive retail operation of the past half-century. Amazon takes the very thing, a store, that it invested every fiber of its being in making irrelevant, and, wait for it, opens one itself! The impulse to plant a foot in the space-time…
How Blue Shade Helps You Sleep Better
by Will DeLamater
September 2016: About Blue Shade: There has been a lot of research lately concerning the way that backlit screens on tablets like the Amazon Fire affect sleep patterns for those who read on the tablet at bedtime. The bottom line seems to be that certain wavelengths of light in the blue end of the spectrum…
Is Your Clipping Limit Exceeded?
by Will DeLamater
What’s wrong with Clean Reader? Maybe nothing…
by Will DeLamater
When I asked educators about the usefulness of Clean Reader, the responses were definitive. Teachers don’t like it. It smacks of censorship. It dilutes the purpose of art, or worse–it bastardizes it in the name of correctness. One teacher said that the app is “a violation of all of the principles of intellectual freedom that…