Win $100 Amazon Gift Card from Lendle.me

I am a fan of book lending sites like Lendle.me.  I updated the review a couple months ago.  Since then Lendle has undergone a change in ownership.  So far there are only minor changes.  The emails notifications have been updated.  And there is now a weekly email. Lendle has started a new Facebook Fan page … Read more

Review: Amazon Paperwhite Leather Cover

Amazon Kindle Paperwhite Leather CoverI am not a big fan of covers for kindles.  In general I like to use them without a cover.  But the most common problem with kindle is a cracked screen and covers really can help with that.

Over the next three days I am going to review the three covers I have used recently.

I do not now own a Kindle Paperwhite.  But twice in the last two months I have helped a friend replace a broken kindle with a new Paperwhite.  That has given me several weeks to play with the Paperwhite and try out the covers.

The official Amazon Paperwhite Leather cover is a totally different type of cover from the covers that Amazon made for the first three generations of Kindle.  Instead of the elastic corners of the first two generations and the prongs of the third generation, this cover uses a rubberized plastic that is form fitted to the size of the kindle.  (In the picture to the side the outer line around the kindle is the rubberized plastic holder.)

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Bookwi.se Reader Survey

Bookwi.se has grown significantly this year.  The average daily visits to the site are six times higher than last year.  And in the last couple months RSS and email views are about three times that of the visits to the actual site.  In order to make Bookwi.se the best site it can be I would … Read more

Misguided Copyright Protection

I saw a quick post at BoingBoing today that linked to a short article on the Atlantic.  Both were centered around this shocking graphic of Amazon books sold by decade. A law professor from University of Illinois prepared this chart. What it is showing is that the expanding copyright has actually limited the sale of … Read more