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…
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Five Ways to Improve Kindle Fire Battery Life
by Will DeLamater
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…
How to clear the application storage on Kindle Fire
by Will DeLamater
April left a comment on the post about cleaning up your Kindle Fire: “The internal storage is all clear, yay! BUT… the APPLICATION STORAGE is still nearly full. I have looked every place I can think of with the file explorer and cannot find where this is stored. Please help!” I suggest the following: Try…
How much storage space is available on my Kindle Fire?
by Will DeLamater
On a media device like the Kindle Fire, storage matters. With movies running roughly 500MB and audiobooks 200MB, that storage can disappear rapidly. Ebooks are actually smaller in file size than other media, so if all you want to do is read, you will be fine with a device with the minimum storage. You can…
What to do when my Kindle is full
by Will DeLamater
Use an app to clean up space and memory September 1, 2016 There are few apps that are available in the app store that you can install to automatically clean up space and memory. One of them is Clean Master app. The app is great for few reasons The app itself is very small and…
Is the Kindle or Kindle Fire the Best Device for Schools?
by Will DeLamater
Related content: How to Clean Up Your Kindle Fire As with everything, the answer to this question comes from the answer to another question, which is “What is your goal for the use of the devices?” The best Kindle for each school is the one that best helps it accomplish its educational mission. So, Kindle…
Is the Kindle or Kindle Fire the Best Device for Schools?
by Will DeLamater
As with everything, the answer to this question comes from the answer to another question, which is “What is your goal for the use of the devices?” The best Kindle for each school is the one that best helps it accomplish its educational mission. So, Kindle or Kindle Fire? When the Kindle e-ink reader came…
How to clean up your Kindle Fire
by Will DeLamater
A lot of Amazon Kindle Fire users have been hit with a message about low storage space or less memory on their devices. One reason for this problem is that the apps that are installed on the Kindle Fire are running in background, performing certain operations that consume both memory and storage. There are few…
“Got iPad” beats “Got Kindle” on Christmas
by Will DeLamater
According to Topsy Analytics, there was a clear winner on Christmas morning between iPad and Kindle, at least among Twitter users. Using the Topsy analytics engine, Philip Elmer-Dewitt of CNN Money ran a search on the phrases “got iPad, got Kindle, got Note” in Tweets that people shared on Christmas day. The results are startling…