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The Book vs the Kindle: Part 2

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The Book vs. the Kindle : Part 1

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A Student Experience With Kindle DX

Jul. 31 | kindle dx is being used as a pilot project n many U.S. universities. The question is whether kindle can replace the paper book. It should be considered from both usability and cost perspective. On amazon kindle forum Christopher A. Hammer have recently...

Column: The Orwell/Kindle Fiasco

Jul. 25 | In the dystopian classic “1984,” the main character Winston Smith works in the Records Department of the Ministry of Truth, where his job is to aid in the alteration and destruction of documents so that history can never show the government as anything...

Kindle Photo Viewer Controls

Jul. 24 | The picture viewer can be activated by connecting your Kindle2 via USB cable to your PC and create “pictures” folder in kindle USB disk. Create subfolders inside of that and copy the pictures. The subfolders will then become “book” names and the...

How to Save All Words You've Looked-up in Kindle Dictionary?

Jul. 24 | When you look a book up in the dictionary, highlight the word & the definition and it will save it to “My Clippings.”   You can then track all of the words you’ve looked up.  My Clippings is accessible in a text file when your...

When ‘free’ becomes really expensive

Jul. 14 | My iPod is packed with thousands of songs I’ve never listened to, by bands whose names I don’t recognize. The hard drive of my laptop contains dozens of movies I’ve downloaded and never watched, and if all goes according to the pattern, I will soon...

E-book Reaser Price Survey: People Don't Like to Pay More Than $150

Jul. 14 | The survey was recently done by LL Publications Blog.  The question was: Into what range would prices need to drop before you would definitely purchase an ebook reader? Around 173 peole have participated in the survey, and the result is: “$200 –...

Symbol Shortcuts on Kindle

Jul. 10 | Some of you already know how to type symbols from the keyboard. In case, you don’t know: Double Quotes ( “): Alt-9 Colon (:) :  Alt-8 Comma (,) : Alt-7 Question Mark (?) : Alt-6 Apostrophe ( ‘ ) :  Alt-0 Bookmark on Delicious Digg...

How to Find Supported Search commands on Kindle?

Jul. 10 | Just type @help in the search area to display all supported search commands like @dict, @url etc. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up Buzz it up Mixx it up Share via MySpace Share on Orkut share via Reddit Share with...

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