Reading on the iPad is a mixed bag. Many love it, many hate it. But there just is not another good alternative, if you want full color digital reading that is not a full computer. I recently have changed my mind a bit about reading on the iPad. I still prefer my Kindle for traditional … Read more
It should not be a surprise that I am a fan of audiobooks. And the majority of my audiobooks are from Audible.com. I wrote a general review of Audible about 6 months ago. The only real difference from my earlier review is that Audible.com is now up to more than 85,000 books. If you are … Read more
I am having a hard time focusing on anything lately. I have read about 10 percent of six books in the last three days and just cannot get into anything. So as a bit of humor here is an old video about what Gutenberg Tech Support might have been like.
I tweeted yesterday that I am going to take a book buying fast until the new year. And I feel I need to include the kindle in that book buying fast. (In case you are wondering, I am going to give the equivelent or more to http://ahomeinhaiti.org/ to build houses for orphans there. You can … Read more
On Monday Amazon announced enhanced edition kindle books for ipad, ipod touch and iphone. These books have embedded audio and/or video. There are only a handful of books that work right now. Most of them include video or audio speeches in the context of a biography. I picked up Lullaby Baby to try it out. The Amazon description … Read more
I do not have an Android phone so I cannot review this. But Kindle reader for Android is now available. All the same basic features of the readers for blackberry and iphone. If you have an Android phone but not a Kindle this is a way to try out ebooks without any cost. There are … Read more
There were two significant announcements in the ebook world yesterday. Barnes and Noble announced a new Nook Lite (a wifi only reader) for $149 and a lower price for their regular Nook for $199. There was also a software upgrade for the regular Nook. Both are available now with free shipping. Amazon countered with a … Read more
Update: This is a picture of my kindle in a hot tub. I used it over several days and left it floating once for quite a while. No water in the case. The power button issue discussed below is a very big and very real pain. But if you want a floating/waterproof kindle case, this … Read more
I am a little over half way through my first Overdrive Audiobook. Like my previous review of NetLibrary. Overdrive is a system that your local library system must subscribe to. Luckily I seem to have a progressive library system because they work with both Overdrive and Netlibrary. I thought they were the same system initially. … Read more
Ok, I know I am expanding the reading tools idea a bit much, but as my wife says, “he is a bag whore.” I like just the right bag for how I am going to use it. For my ipad I was looking for a bag that was big enough for the ipad and a … Read more