The Kindle Chronicles

Latest Episodes:

TKC 731 Kevin Keith and New Kindles Oct 01, 2026

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With Kevin Keith in 2022 at the launch of Kindle Scribe

Links

Note: I will add links to new Kindles as soon as I can after the news embargo lifts at 9 am ET. You may find the updated Kindle info yourself by clicking here.

Kevin Keith (Linkedin)

Amazon Kindle

Livescribe

Kindle "Ask This Book" and "Recap" features

"Goodbye to the Amazon Kindle Oasis" by Michael Kozlowski at Good E Reader - February 21, 2024

Amazon introduces a completely redesigned Kindle family (Amazon, Oct. 1, 2026)

My earlier conversations with Kevin Keith: TKC 500 and TKC 698

"The inside story of how the Kindle was born" (About Amazon)

"The Kindle Oasis will be discontinued as Amazon says goodbye to page-turn buttons" (Engadget, October 2024)

Kindle Scribe AI features, including Refine writing (About Amazon)

Why Amazon named a building "Fiona" (About Amazon)

Meet the Host of The Kindle Chronicles Podcast video (Amazon News) - 2023

TKC 730 Chris Bailey's New Book About Intentions Jan 09, 2026

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Via ChatGPT, a graphic illustrating the sleuth-like intestigations that resulted in Chris Bailey's new book, Intentional: How to Finish What You Start

LINKS

Intentional: How to Finish What You Start by Chris Bailey

"There are just 12 basic values" by Chris Bailey - September 4, 2025

Core Values Test: If you click on this link you will be able to take the test, which takes about 12 minutes, for $25--a 50% discount. Thank you, Chris!

Chris's three previous books: The Productivity Project (2016), Hyperfocus (2018), and How to Calm Your Mind (2022)

My previous Kindle Chronicles interviews with Chris in 2021 and 2023

Time & Attention, Chris's podcast co-hosted with his wife, Ardyn Nordstrom

"The Book I've Been Waiting to Write for 15 Years" by Tiago Forte - November 11, 2025

Getting Things Done by David Allen

TKC729 Kindle Scribe Colorsoft Release Today Dec 10, 2025

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The New Colorsoft, with Sophie and Darlene's sister Gail

Links

Click here for today's release of three new Kindle Scribe tablets, including the amazing Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, which Darlene's sister Gail talked about with me for today's episode.

Click here for the 15-minute video I uploaded to YouTube about the Scribe Colorsoft. I focused on what it will mean for my decades-long journaling practice.

TKC 728 Amazon Devices Event in NYC Oct 01, 2025

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Panos Panay, SVP Devices & Services at Amazon

Links

Coverage of today's media event in NYC:

About Amazon

"Amazon Finally Did the Damn Hardware Right" by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy at The Verge

"The 5 Hottest AI Features from Amazon's September Hardware Reveal" by Eric Hal Schwartz at Techradar

"Everything Amazon Announced Today at Its Fall Hardware Event" by Julian Chokkattu at Wired

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TKC 727 Anna Fitzgerald Healy Jul 20, 2025

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Author of Etiquette for Lovers and Killers

Photo © Chris Doody

Links

Anna Fitzgerald Healy's website

The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette: 50th Anniversary Edition

"The Vampire Facial" by Anna Fitzgerald Healy, reprinted in Dark Matter Magazine

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Audiobook preview for Etiquette for Lovers and Killers (YouTube)

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Wood Island Lighthouse

Amazon page for Alexa+

"More Than a Million People Now Have Alexa Plus" by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy at The Verge - June 10, 2025

To hear my Morning Journal flash briefing on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings, say, "Alexa, enable Morning Journal." Then each morning say, "Alexa, flash." I also include the Morning Journal audio files on those same days at my Substack Newsletter,

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TKC 725 Doug Fleener Mar 04, 2025

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Author of The Day Makes the Year

Links

The Day Makes the Year (Makes a Life): Transform Your Work and Life with One-Day Success by Doug Fleener

Doug's web site

See You at the Top: 25th Anniversary Edition by Zig Ziglar

The Tears of Things: Prophetic Wisdom for an Age of Outrage by Richard Rohr

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TKC 724 Meet Alexa+ Feb 27, 2025

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