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Live Blog for Digital Book World Conference Jan 16, 2013

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I plan to live blog here for the upcoming sessions at the Digital Book World conference here in New York. To see the live updates, you will have to click on the headline for this post - the updates do not appear if you have navigated to the Kindle Chronicles home page. This morning's sessions [...]

Kindle Screens in Sunlight – A Comparison Jan 14, 2013

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YouTube viewer BobbyKempBigBand has asked how the Kindle Fire HD looks in sunlight as a reading device, so I did a comparison of it with the Paperwhite yesterday morning in bright Denver morning light. As you can see, the Fire reflects images much more than the Paperwhite. However, I was surprised to see that, depending [...]

Tea for Two Pots – Guest Post by Kindle Chronicles Listener Jean Remple Jan 13, 2013

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Note from Len: I am pleased to pass along this email from my friend Jean Remple on the topic of how to brew a perfect pot of tea. When I told Darlene that I wanted to buy two porcelain pots she informed me that she already has two, and she agreed to let me use [...]

Update on Reading Kindles in a Salt Room: Don't Do It! Jan 12, 2013

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I want to highlight the following comment that I received this morning from MitchM regarding my deep Kindle reading in a salt room this week: Wow, what a cool room, made entirely of salt. Probably very therapeutic for the human respiratory system. But kind to the inner workings of our beloved electronic devices? Not so [...]

TKC 232 Seth Godin Jan 12, 2013

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Author of The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly? Interview Starts at 21:15 Walking through Union Square Market in New York or in an airport, no one comes up to me and says, "I read Free Prize Inside-it increased sales of Clorox by two percent" and then gives me a hug…not even in my dreams. I'm [...]

If You Are Enjoying a New Kindle, Please Consider Donating Your Previous One to a U.S. Soldier Deployed Overseas! Jan 11, 2013

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(Cross Post from E-Books for Troops) Incoming Kindles in Denver awaiting preparation for shipment to Troops overseas During 2012, we distributed 282 Kindles to U.S. military units deployed overseas, mostly in Iraq and Afghanistan. Our goal for 2013 is to increase the number of Kindles distributed during the year to 300. Last [...]

Kindle Tips: Welcome to the One-Page Kindle Home Club! Jan 11, 2013

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The home screen of my Kindle Paperwhite comprises a single page (see above.) Hidden in my collections are three novels, two inspirational books, eight nonfiction books or articles, and one volume of poetry. That's it. Everything else, all 856 items, resides in my Amazon archive in the cloud. I used to have lots of pages on my [...]

From Tolstoy, With Love Jan 10, 2013

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Is it really going to take a year for me to read a single book? Apparently so, when the book is War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. I purchased my 99-cent Kindle copy on February 16, 2012, and I am 79 percent through the novel. I read it at night, when I am trying to fall [...]

More on Tea: Our Ambivalent Visit to Celestial Seasonings in Boulder Jan 09, 2013

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First, I want to thank Kindle Chronicles listener Guven Witteveen for his email recommending that Darlene and I take a tour of the Celestial Seasonings plant just up the road in Boulder. We drove there today in time for the 11 a.m. tour. I am still a tea drinker, and I bought a box of Tension [...]

Love Your Kindle? Try Taking it for a Deep Read in a Room Made of Salt Jan 08, 2013

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If you are a book lover who prefers an E Ink device to a tablet, I bet it's because there are fewer distractions on a Kindle Paperwhite 3G or other dedicated eReader. I feel the same way. I love my Kindle Fire HD and iPad for zipping around the Internets like a waterbug on a [...]

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