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Comment on Kindle Library Lending Endgame: Returning Your Books or Watching Them Expire by Tom Petrie

Tom Petrie — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:43:53 +0000

Can anyone tell me of their experience with Kindle-Select? I could delete the e-book purchase option from my website AND avoid publishing with B&N (nook), but I don’t want to come out in the negative. It’s bad enough we have to wait 60 days to get paid, but what do you experienced authors (w/Kindle Select) think? Is it worth the “sacrifices”?

Thanks!

Comment on Why Is It So Hard to Cite a Passage on the Kindle? by Tom Petrie

Tom Petrie — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:36:01 +0000

My webmaster has had a real challenge getting the format whereby references can be used in my recent book, but guess what? So, Kindle–so it appears–is NOT suitable for scientific texts, that’s the bottom line. So instead, I’m giving the readers the option of getting the 434 references in my book sent to them, if they wish. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Comment on Kindle Library Lending Endgame: Returning Your Books or Watching Them Expire by MZ

MZ — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:29:06 +0000

I wish they’d allow Kindle Lending to international Kindle owners!

Comment on Using Your Kindle as a Personal Notepad by willd

willd — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:14:11 +0000

Hi Jessie, and thanks for the feedback. We did not design our notepad for the Fire. I think Amazon can issue a refund for the purchase if you contact them. So sorry for the inconvenience!

Comment on Page Number Versus Position on Kindle by Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:13:34 +0000

http://www.riosalado.edu/library/owl/Documents/MLA-Citation_Elec_BookReaders.pdf

This website says to merely use the location along with the paragraph on that “screen,” so to speak.

Comment on Downloads by none ya bisness

none ya bisness — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:45:47 +0000

thank god for this notepad I don’t know what I would do without it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Comment on Buying Your Kindles Using a Purchase Order by Sami

Sami — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:34:57 +0000

Why would any school or library supported by tax revenues purchase anything from Amazon? Amazon refuses to collect state and local taxes. Amazon threatens to pull out of any state that asks them to. Amazon has spent millions of dollars in court battles to avoid collecting the local taxes that go to support schools and libraries. Better to stick to a vendor that supports local communities with jobs and tax dollars. Barnes & Noble and Nooks come to mind for an excellent alternative.

Here’s one editorial stating the case.
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2011/07/09/1676802/editorial-failure-to-collect-online.html

Comment on What Middle School Students Say About the Kindle by willd

willd — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 21:52:11 +0000

Hi Dian, I would say the keyboard is a stretch for writing two pages of text, but it could be done. The keyboard is there mainly to annotate as you suggest, and to create text as needed to use the web browser. Good luck!

Comment on What Middle School Students Say About the Kindle by Dian Monson

Dian Monson — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:16:45 +0000

I want to use a tablet of some kind for my middles school students who are failing English (those are the only students I teach and i have one class of four students and one of six. I want to find a tablet, preferably Kindle for all the reasons Kindle is a superior reading tool, with a keyboard on which students could create two pages of text, or even a page would be great. I’m pretty terrible with electronics, so I can’t quite figure out if the new keyboard kindle can do that or if the keyboard is just for writing short annotations within books.

Comment on Kindle Phone Home: Getting 80 Kindles Ready for Kids, Part 2 by willd

willd — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 22:56:38 +0000

Hi Mark, there are a number of teachers and librarians who have shared their experiences on the EduKindle Ning at http://www.edukindle.ning.com. If you search around a bit there, you will find many ideas and practices addressing the issues you mention. –Will