News - Via Mike Elgan and HotelChatter.com , we learn that the famed Algonquin Hotel in New York City is loaning Kindles to guests. Jan Zlendich of The Kindle Reader blog notes that 46 of the 50 titles on Bookmarks Magazine's list of the 50 best books of 2008 are available for the Kindle.Tech Tip - Amazon Mobile on the iPhone/iPod Touch is pretty neat, but you can't use it yet to order a Kindle book. For the adventurous - how to update your customized photo screensavers on the Kindle. (Thanks to...
Dec 05, 2008•35 min
News: The Kindle is sold out just in time for Christmas. Will the one I ordered today turn out to be a Kindle 2.0 ? Should Amazon say so ? Also, a secret New York Times memo reports more than 10,000 Kindle NYT subscriptions (thanks to Abhi for the tip ), and Kindle NowNow is GoneGone . Tech Tip: Try pdfdownload.org for a one-click way to move web content to your Kindle. The results won't always look as good as this , though.Interview: Linda Hopkins, an engaged and engaging listener of the podcas...
Nov 28, 2008•36 min
News - In a TechFlash Q&A, Ian Freed says no to video on the Kindle. Tech Tip -Igor Skochinsky's motherload of Kindle tech stuff.Interview - Sriram K. Peruvemba, Vice President of Marketing at E Ink Corporation, interviewed at the company's headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. The audio podcast contains excerpts of our conversation, and this video has the full interview. Quote - "Senior Moment" by Dana Milbank of The Washington Post .Comments - Audio from Peggy, text from Julie Booth....
Nov 22, 2008•29 min
News: Thanks to listener Linda Hopkins, we learn from Amazon that Kindle samples are NOT designed to timeout.Tech Tip: How to put [20,000] 2,000 classics on your Kindle using MobileReference (thanks to Nick for suggesting this one) - 1. Connect your Kindle to your computer with USB cable.2. In your computer’s web browser, go to MobileReference 3. In the main area of the web site, not the column on the left, scroll down to the section titled “Fiction Books.” 4. In the last subcategory of that sec...
Nov 14, 2008•42 min
News: Case of the disappearing Kindle Store sample, from Joe Wikert's Kindleville blog. Tech Tip: From David Emberson's Kindle Cookbook , a clever keyboard shortcut that zooms you through books 1/20th at a time.Interview: My wife's opinion of her Kindle improves during her first month of use, despite her biggest fear coming true. NOTE: If you know some great sources for contemporary mystery writers for the Kindle, please let me know, so I can pass them along to Darlene.Quote: from a book about A...
Nov 08, 2008•28 min
News: The Motley Fool asserts that Oprah has saved Amazon.Tech Tip: What are those white boxes to the right of some items on the home screen?Interview: Dave Emberson , author of The Kindle Cookbook: How to Do Everything the Manual Doesn't Tell You .Quote: Technology Review' s editor Jason Pontin has some advice for the next president.Comments: Stephen Windwalker , Kesler Woodward , and Linda Hopkins.You can leave a voice comment by calling 206-666-2713 or by emailing me an .mp3 audio file at Pod...
Oct 31, 2008•37 min
Kindle News: Oprah gets behind the Kindle in a big way , including a $50-off coupon good till November 1st. Also , Amazon reports that 10 percent of its total book titles sold are in Kindle format. Tech Tip: From The Kindle Cookbook by David Emberson, how to put the MobileRead guide on your Kindle for free book downloads. (Other good Kindle guides mentioned: Decoding the Kindle by Jim Cheshire and Complete User's Guide to the Amazing Amazon Kindle by Stephen Windwalker.Interview: Evan Schnittman...
Oct 24, 2008•37 min
Interview: Abhi, creator of the Amazon Kindle, Books and Amazon News Blog and the Kindle Social Network for Book Lovers , talks to me from London and details how you can win a free Kindle if you join and participate in his social network before the end of October. Kindle Quote: The Nigger of Narcissus by Joseph Conrad.Kindle Comment: A promising overture from someone at Amazon......
Oct 18, 2008•23 min
Kindle News: Faked Photos or a real look at the Kindle 2?Tech Tip: A recent newbie (me) walks you around the Kindle Korner Yahoo group.Interview: Laurel Hicks, a moderator of Kindle Korner. On her Kindle: War and Peace by Tolstoy, Works of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov from MobileReference and the blogs Opinionated and An Unamplified Voice , an opera blog. Kindle Quote: Mmm-good: Campbell Soup fares pretty well in the financial debacle. An article in Investor's Business Daily .Comments: Linda Hopkins,...
Oct 11, 2008•33 min
Kindle News: Forbes gets it wrong on the iPhone v. the Kindle.Tech Tip: How to find out there's no Whispernet in Missoula, Montana. Click here for Sprint coverage map.Interview: My wife, Darlene, opens her Kindle and starts using it.Quote: The Faith of Barack Obama by Stephen Mansfield.Comments: Bob Boyken, Sang-Won Kim, Heather Hollick, and Linda....
Oct 03, 2008•32 min
Kindle News: Amazon passes a milestone with 180,000 titles available in the Kindle Store.Tech Tip: A light for reading your Kindle in bed when your spouse is trying to sleep.Interview: Jim Cheshire , author of Decoding the Kindl e.Kindle Quote: from Spirit House, a Vincent Calvino Novel by Christopher G. Moore.Kindle Comments: audio from Bryan Person , comments on the show notes page from Greg Pyles and Paul....
Sep 27, 2008•32 min
Kindle News: Forbes reports on two more would-be Kindle Killers from Plastic Logic and iRex Technologies .Tech Tip: My 79-year-old mother's clever idea for printing a Kindle page didn't pan out, but I did learn about the expanded location tool from Jim Cheshire 's new book, Decoding the Kindle . Interview: Andy Ihnatko , technology columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times . Kindle Quote: from McCain's Promise : Aboard the Straight Talk Express with John McCain and a Whole Bunch of Actual Reporters, T...
Sep 20, 2008•34 min
Kindle News: Kindle snags exclusive for new biographies of Michelle Obama and Cindy McCain. Jim Cheshire's Decoding the Kindle is released.Tech Tip: How to highlight a section of text which begins on one screen and ends on the next. Also, Jan Zlendich's tip for helping your Kindle make it home if you leave it somewhere.The "What's on Your Kindle Interview?": Heather Hollick of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with a clever way to move lots of reading material from the web to the Kindle as .pdf files...
Sep 13, 2008•32 min
Kindle News: Andy Ihnatko's possibly prophetic piece in Macworld titled, "How Apple Could Make e-books work and why Steve Jobs could do what Jeff Bezos hasn't."Tech Tip: How to put your Kindle on cruise control. (Hat tip to chelsea etitameh on the Kindle Korner Yahoo Group. )The "What's On Your Kindle?" Interview: Jan Zlendich of Tucson, Arizona, created The Kindle Reader blog while she waited for her Kindle to arrive last year. In our phone interview on September 3, 2008, she gives a librarian'...
Sep 06, 2008•34 min
Kindle News: We have fresh rumors of new student-oriented Kindle models coming as soon as September from Andrea James of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Peter Burrows of Business Week's The Tech Beat. This led John C. Dvorak to increase the warmth of his Kindle assessment compared with his initial scoffing on This Week in Tech just after the Kindle was introduced. (Note to social-network savvy Amazon exec if you're listening to this podcast: feel free to call me at 303-919-7187 if you'd like ...
Aug 29, 2008•32 min
The "What's on Your Kindle?" interview this week is with Joe Wikert , creator of the Kindleville blog and vice president & executive publisher within the Professional Trade Division of John Wiley & Sons . Here is some of what's on Joe's Kindle:Subscriptions to The New York Times and Time MagazineSamples of Predictably Irrational , Obsessive Branding Disorder , and Nice Guys Can Get the Corner Office Kindle News - The Financial Times arrives! The EFF asks tough questions of the publishing...
Aug 22, 2008•33 min
This is the .mp3 version of episode 5 featuring an interview with Joe Wikert.
Aug 22, 2008•33 min
This is the .mp3 version of Episode 4, which features a "What's on Your Kindle?" interview with Bill Bulger, 74, in active retirement after serving for 17 years as president of the Massachusetts State Senate and seven years as president of the University of Massachusetts.
Aug 15, 2008•49 min
This week's "What's on Your Kindle?" Interview is with Bill Bulger , 74, a legendary Massachusetts politician from South Boston who served 17 years as president of the state Senate and 7 years as president of the University of Massachusetts. We visited at his home, and afterward his wife, Mary, revealed exactly why she bought her husband a Kindle. His book is not in Kindle version yet - click on the link to let his publisher know you'd like that changed! UPDATE: Two items on Bill Bulger's Kindle...
Aug 15, 2008•49 min
This is the .mp3 version of this week's episode featuring a "What's on Your Kindle?" interview with author Stephen Windwalker.
Aug 08, 2008•47 min
Kindle News: Electronic newspaper readers in Germany and France , as well Dave Lester's Treeless Systems project in Denver that I profiled in a podcast two years ago.A rosy view of the Kindle's future sales and one not so rosy . One thing NOT to do with your Kindle.A Free Webinar , "Leveraging the Kindle - How to maximize the Kindle's benefits to your readers and your business," by Joe Wikert set for August 21, 2008 at 11 a.m. ET. Joe is author of the Kindleville blog.Kindle Tech Tip:How to use ...
Aug 08, 2008•47 min
The "What's on Your Kindle?" Interview: A telephone conversation with C.C. Chapman , who runs a digital marketing company called The Advance Guard and is host of the Accident Hash , Managing the Gray and U-Turn Cafe podcasts. His informative comments include how he uses the Kindle to inspire him onward in writing a current manuscript. What's on C.C's Kindle: subscriptions to The Boston Globe and Newsweek and Time magazines, Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith, personal .pdf documents, two books he can't t...
Aug 02, 2008•37 min
mp3 version of Episode 2 featuring "What's On Your Kindle" interview with C.C. Chapman.
Aug 01, 2008•37 min
On this debut episode of The Kindle Chronicles, the "What's on Your Kindle?" interview is with The Onion 's web-and-election wizard Baratunde Thurston , a comedian and blogger who offers great suggestions for a wished-for social network capability for the Kindle, and how the device has changed the way he reads. Here is some of what's on Baratunde's Kindle: The Scar by China Mieville Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky The Daily Kos treehugger The Hu...
Jul 27, 2008•28 min
On this debut episode of The Kindle Chronicles, the "What's on Your Kindle?" interview is with The Onion 's web-and-election wizard Baratunde Thurston , a comedian and blogger who offers great suggestions for a wished-for social network capability for the Kindle, and how the device has changed the way he reads. Here is some of what's on Baratunde's Kindle: The Scar by China Mieville Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky The Daily Kos treehugger The Hu...
Jul 27, 2008•28 min
