All hail Amazon’s new 16GB Fire – now with added bigness inside
With all the excitement over Amazon's pending new Kindle, you may not have noticed that Amazon has also released a new, 16GB version of its $50 7" Fire. This isn't, alas,...
Yes, Amazon’s $50 Fire WILL do USB OTG (updated)
(Corrected, with new headline: Yes, we find that the $50 Fire can do USB On-The-Go, so we've removed the post from tiles at the top of our home page. See Chris Meadows's...
Amazon Silk updated, but did your Kindle Fire’s browser get any better?
Amazon has announced and released an update to its Silk browser for Kindle Fire tablets. This should be available or already installed on all new $50 Fire tablets, as well as...
Scribd will change its subscription service from unlimited to semi-unlimited
Scribd has just announced it is making another change to its “unlimited subscription” business model beginning next month. It’s going to be moving from a fully-unlimited model to a hybrid limited/unlimited...
How to use Blue Shade on your Amazon Fire – but you really don’t...
I finally got to try Amazon's loudly trumpeted Blue Shade feature on the $50 Fire tablet. And the results are, frankly, fairly awful. But if you want to use it, this...
Quick tip: dealing with greyed-out books on the Kindle
Rarely, you’ll buy a book from the Kindle Store and it won’t download immediately to your device. Instead, the title will appear in your archive but it will be greyed out,...
AWOL: All-text bold on the $290 Oasis: A workaround for aging eyes (updated)
So which is easier to read, at least for me?
(1) My $290 Oasis without The Way We Live Now in all bold or (2) my modest 2013 Paperwhite with the same file in boldface?
The answer?...
Amazon introduces new sans serif font, Ember, for Kindle Oasis
Nate Hoffelder reports at The Digital Reader that Amazon has commissioned a new sans serif font called Ember that will be included on the new Kindle Oasis—though if you’re using a...
How to import bookmarks into the Kindle Fire Silk browser
One of the most irritating shortcomings of Amazon's new Kindle Fire 7 tablet is the lack of proper bookmarks management in its otherwise fast and slick Silk browser. And worst of...
On adding the Google Services apps to the $50 Fire tablet, and what happens...
Well, that was remarkably simple.
I had nobly intended to pretend that I was an average, ordinary Fire tablet user, who had to exist solely within the Amazon ecosystem and make do...
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A sad tale of Amazon monetization: eReaderIQ and the affiliate program
Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...
