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The Kindle Reading Experience

If Adults Read More on Kindle, Will Students?

July 10, 2008
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It is a commonplace now in tweets and posts about the experience of owning a Kindle that users find themselves reading more on the Kindle than they did before. That is certainly my story. I browse the Wall Street Journal every morning now, and currently have two novels going. The time I spend reading...
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Intergenerational Kindle Fest

July 5, 2008
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Another Kindle first, courtesy of Len Edgerly and his dad. They do an impromptu review of the Kindle from their perch in the waiting room in Biddeford ME. Recorded on Utterz–clean, cool interface. Check it out here.
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The Kindle is for “Frictionless” Reading, First

July 2, 2008
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Nice post by Matt Asay at CNet: No, what I really like about the Kindle is the reading experience. It’s wonderful. The only thing missing is a backlight for reading in low-light conditions, but it’s already better than reading a physical book because the screen is comforting to view and the weight/feel of the...
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A Kindle Tale: Junot Diaz and GTA IV

June 29, 2008
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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
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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
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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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Highlighting on the Kindle Across Pages

June 21, 2008
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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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