There are compelling reasons to own a print book you want to read, AND to have an e-book version to go along with it. It is devilishly hard to save all your notes and clipping when you have a print copy, and you can’t admire a book on your bookshelf or share it with a…
Simply Googling this question didn’t really help me very much, so here is the answer I discovered by trial and error. Get logged into Amazon on your laptop and navigate your browser to alexa.amazon.com or open the Alexa app on your tablet or phone. You will see a page like this one, identified as “Home.” To…
Update January 1, 2017: My Pick for the Month: The Mutual Admiration Society by Lesley Kagen So why did I pick this one? Just reading the snippet from the first page told me that this narrator was going to be a lot of fun to spend some time with. As a former teacher, the child’s…
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…
Clipping limit? An oxymoron? Those of us who love to mark up our books sometimes go overboard. I remember packing some of my old college textbooks and seeing how most of the text was highlighted in bright yellow. How does that help? an older and wiser me mused. Enter the age of digital text. No…
Are you one of those individuals who likes to read across different media, i.e. do you want to read the same book in print and on a digital device? If so, the world of booksellers is ready to serve your needs. If you have a Kindle reader or software and an Amazon account, finding out…
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,…
Watch the short video that GigaOm dug up about the new subscription service for unlimited books from Amazon: How would such a service affect your reading habits? Please share your thoughts in the comments below! You might also like: Beware Automatic Book Updates on Kindle and What Educators Need to Know About Kindle Synchronization
If you don’t read Joanna Cabot at Teleread, you should. She is truly the e-book reader/user’s best friend, testing out everything, taking nothing on authority, and sharing her experiences for our benefit. This article is a great introduction to her thinking and her work. Enjoy! What a diet book taught me about my eBook spending…
Read the Recent Post Does My Kindle Book Have Real Page Numbers? You remember Jeff Bezos’s stated mission to make reading “frictionless”? Well, in some macro sense, circa 2009, he has accomplished his mission. But this is 2013, people, and when I want to load a copy of a public domain title onto my Kindle…