The popularity of Notepad for Kindle got me thinking about another utility that I’d like on my Kindle, a calendar utility. With Notepad getting decent reviews, I thought, why not?. Mary Krieg wrote a comment, saying “I now have the Personal Notepad on my Kindle. It is fantastic! You truly designed a program that is…
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A Kindle Gift Under Your Tree
by Will DeLamater
If you get up on Christmas morning and take a little peek at the computer just to see what’s going on, who’s on Twitter, if there are greetings on Facebook, or a message in a “tweetwrapper” just for you, then you should be rewarded with something more than a piece of coal. And so it…
Book Selection for Kindle Loan Program at NCSU
by Will DeLamater
One interesting feature of the Kindle loaner program at North Carolina State University is the way that books are selected for download to the 18 Kindles that are available for checkout. Patrons (including students and faculty) recommend titles through an online submission form (see screen shot) that is then vetted by library staff. More from…
Education Articles Now Formatted for Download to Your Kindle
by Will DeLamater
I have been working on getting texts properly formatted for the Kindle lately and thought I would experiment with short articles on topics of interest to educators. The first ones are now available on the “Downloads” page. One is a brief overview of the NCLB legislation that was sourced through Wikipedia, and another is the…
Harvard Medical School Puts 20,000 Courses on Kindle
by Will DeLamater
John D. Halamka, MD, Chief Information Officer and Dean for Technology at Harvard Medical School, reported on his blog last week that HMS has “recently implemented Kindle support for all our 20,000 educational resources at HMS.” It’s more than cool or innovative: with an annual budget of $50,000 for printing course materials, Dr. Halamka and…
Converting PDFs for the Kindle
by Will DeLamater
The PDF conversion is better than advertised in my experience. I converted a 400+ page PDF and it reads beautifully on the Kindle. The limitations are that 1) the converted document does not offer a Table of Contents that the Kindle recognizes and that 2) the navigation aids in the original document, like section indicators,…
Uploading Your Documents to the Kindle
by Will DeLamater
Half of what I lug with me on a plane or train is stuff from work that I have to read. Much of it is Word documents, some PDFs. My goal was to see how much of this paper I could convert for the Kindle. This is as easy as it gets. You just email…
A Limit to Reading Blogs on the Kindle
by Will DeLamater
Recently I noted that there are some blogs that format for the Kindle beautifully and that carry content worth paying for. Stanley Fish’s Think Again blog in the New York Times is a good example. But I found that, even with this erudite and text-driven blog (as compared to Street Use, which makes its point…
A Thinker’s Blog for the Kindle
by Will DeLamater
After canceling out of the blogs I’ve been reviewing before the “free trial” ended, I signed up for another batch. One I find to be very interesting, Stanley Fish’s blog Think Again from the New York Times. It looks like Fish, a professor at Florida International University in Miami, and whose book Surprised by Sin:…
Reading Blogs on the Kindle
by Will DeLamater
I have been loading more periodical content onto the Kindle lately, with The Wall Street Journal, at ten bucks a month, being the best of a bunch of very good deals. Currently I have Newsweek and U. S. News and World Report downloading wirelessly for a couple of bucks a month each, ditto Slate. But…