Will she do what you ask?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…
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…
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…
Kindle Fire 7 is, as we have indicated elsewhere, a pretty awesome machine! And when you pair it with your Amazon Echo Dot you get a system of skills and functions that neither device can offer by itself. I notice that when I have my Kindle Fire 7 handy, anything I ask Alexa to do…
For the holidays, we are always looking around for stocking stuffers and smaller presents for friends and distant relatives. Aren’t you? Well, here is why the Kindle 7 fits the category perfectly, especially with Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and general holiday pricing in place. The Kindle 7 is a little tablet that I just paid…
When it comes right down to it, I am a fanatic about saving the stuff I read on the iPad quickly, painlessly, and in a form I can refer to and use later. After seeking for years for a grand solution to every saving and clipping action issue I encountered, I am now a “git…
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…
Amazon recently announced an additional benefit of your Amazon Prime membership. It’s called Prime Reading, and it empowers Prime members to borrow up to 10 titles at a time from a selection of books, magazines, and comics. For example, if you have a Prime membership (and if you don’t, why don’t you?) you can now read the…
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…
Sometimes it takes a book. And then you have to keep them somewhere. These libraries in an article from Wired Magazine make the process of going to the library an aesthetic experience from the moment you arrive. Interesting that so many of them are in Scandinavia. In America, The Chicago Public Library is included. Which…