Will she do what you ask? Reading has come a long way since the advent of the Amazon Kindle ten-plus years ago. Now the Kindle reading app allows us to read on any of our devices, supported by the arguably incomparable Kindle reading ecosystem, which includes saving our clippings in the cloud, synching our reading…
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Use Google Keep to collect quotes from anywhere, even print
by Will DeLamater
Why Don’t I Get an E-book For Free When I Buy a Print Book from Amazon?
by Will DeLamater
View Alexa Skills on Kindle Fire 7 Pro Tips
by Will DeLamater
In defense of the Kindle Fire 7
by Will DeLamater
For the holidays, we are always looking around for stocking stuffers and smaller presents for friends and distant relatives. Aren’t you? Well, here is why the Kindle 7 fits the category perfectly, especially with Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and general holiday pricing in place. The Kindle 7 is a little tablet that I just paid…
How to Set Gmail as Your Default Email Client
by Will DeLamater
Setting up my new Windows computer was easy following these steps: 1. Installed Chrome browser and logged in to my Goggle account – This means that all my bookmarks and shortcuts from my old computer came alive on the new one, no importing or exporting anything 2. Right clicked on the little email envelope icon in…
Six Under-Reported Ways to Save Links and Clippings on Your iPad
by Will DeLamater
How to Save Your Clippings Outside the Kindle (or Nook or Kobo) Reading App
by Will DeLamater
Interested in saving your clippings and highlights to the web from a single e-book reading device? All of the larger e-book systems like Kindle, Nook, and Kobo have apps that can be installed on a device like the iPad, and from there you can access all the features available to that particular reading system. (By…
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…
Manage Automatic Book Updates on Your Kindle Devices
by Will DeLamater
How to manage automatic updates to Kindle books? Amazon’s policy is to notify you by email if there is a major update to any book you bought from them. Minor changes can be made via the Manage my Content and Devices page. On that page, click on Settings and scroll down to view Automatic Updates,…