If you are like me, keeping track of quotes I find in ebooks borders on fanaticism. If you live in the Kindle Reader universe, we know that you can clip and save text in an online repository for later use. That system works great. But what if you are reading a print book? (They do…
Kindle Usability
A great web service that is now free
by Will DeLamater
Now that it has been purchased by Pinterest, an Instapaper account with all the premium services is now free! (You’re welcome…;-) Click on the logo for more information. In case you never heard of Instapaper, editors at Wikipedia tell us that “Instapaper is a bookmarking service owned by Pinterest. It allows web content to be…
Is Your Clipping Limit Exceeded?
by Will DeLamater
How to clear the application storage on Kindle Fire
by Will DeLamater
April left a comment on the post about cleaning up your Kindle Fire: “The internal storage is all clear, yay! BUT… the APPLICATION STORAGE is still nearly full. I have looked every place I can think of with the file explorer and cannot find where this is stored. Please help!” I suggest the following: Try…
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…
Send to Kindle: The Little Button with the K on It
by Will DeLamater
Why do teens prefers phones to Kindles as e-readers?
by Will DeLamater
The recent Pew report on Young Americans’ Reading and Library Habits contains a number of great take-aways, including the news that young people frequent libraries at an unexpectedly high rate. But another finding has emerged that may have an impact on the way that schools think about pleasure reading and reading instruction both inside and outside…
Pogue Picks Paperwhite, and Three Reasons that Educators Won’t
by Will DeLamater
David Pogue, the uber-tech-reviewer for the New York Times, took a minute this week to decipher the place of the new Kindle Paperwhite in the still robust market for E-Ink-based readers. On balance, I think he got it right. The Paperwhite addresses a concern long held by a certain segment of e-book aficionados: how to…
The New Kindle Lineup: What It Means to Educators
by Will DeLamater
Just a quick update on the new lineup of Kindles announced earlier this month: as ever, the new Kindle models have one key audience in mind – the individual consumer. Backlight for reading in bed, integration with a vast media library, seamless purchasing opportunities, high resolution screen, touch navigation, whiter backgrounds, the works! All improvements…
Report Details Kindle Fire “Dislikes”
by Will DeLamater
ChangeWave recently reported the results of a survey of Kindle Fire owners that tallied up the things they like and dislike about the device. While we don’t like to accentuate the negative here at EduKindle, we just found that the dislikes were much more revealing than the likes. What do you think the top “like” was? You guessed it: the price.