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 position across our various devices, looking…
Use Google Keep to collect quotes from anywhere, even print
by Will DeLamater
Find the list of your skills for Alexa and Echo Dot the easy way
by Will DeLamater
What’s wrong with Clean Reader? Maybe nothing…
by Will DeLamater
Page Number Versus Position on Kindle
by Will DeLamater
August 22, 2016 – Update on Page Flip. Amazon recently updated its reader software to solve one of the longest standing problems with e-reading. Formerly, it was difficult if not impossible to jump around in a book and land back at the point you began, rendering non-fiction books with lots of graphs, images, and references…
Six Under-Reported Ways to Save Links and Clippings on Your iPad
by Will DeLamater
Is Your Clipping Limit Exceeded?
by Will DeLamater
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…
Beware Automatic Book Updates on Kindle
by Will DeLamater
Related Content: Should You De-Synchronize Your Kindle? If you have been reading this blog, you know I am an awestruck fan of the Amazon reading ecosystem and the many, many ways it improves the reading experience, even if you can’t easily find that free book you are looking for… But you have to remember that…
How to share your Kindle books
by Will DeLamater
What Educators Need to Know About Kindle Synchronization
by Will DeLamater
Beg, Borrow, But Please Don’t Steal: How to Share E-Books at School (and at Home)
by Will DeLamater
UPDATE: Read the latest instructions for sharing a Kindle book: How to share your Kindle books How to share e-books among as many readers as possible is a matter of great interest to educators. Right now, there are basically three ways to leverage e-books to increase distribution of titles in schools: 1. Sharing (books among…
Why Is It So Hard to Cite a Passage on the Kindle?
by Will DeLamater
Since the first days of the Kindle, readers have been somewhat undone by the absence of page numbers in the text of their Kindle “books.” Reactions range from bemused to outraged. Some purchasers claim to have sent their Kindles back because of this formatting peculiarity, er, innovation. Others say, no big deal; they seem to…