The Kindle Chronicles

Author of Year of Wonder: Classical Music to Enjoy Every Day Interview starts at 18:16 and ends at 42:30 “I wanted to demystify the music itself, and I wanted to humanize the people who created it, because I think we often think about classical composers being these dead, white European guys invariably from Germany and Austria somewhere in the 18th century maybe with a frock coat, maybe with a powdered wig, definitely on some kind of pedestal occupying a lofty, elevated  space that has no bearing on real people’s everyday lives. What’s incredibly humbling when you start to get to know these composers is that they’re just human beings like you and me, just trying to survive their lives, to express themselves through this particular art form.” News “No thank you, Mr. Pecker” by Jeff Bezos at Medium - February 7, 2019 "Facing opposition, Amazon reconsiders N.Y. headquarters site, two officials say" by The Washington Post - February 8, 2019 Kindle Paperwhite on sale for $100 - $30 off Tech Tip MobiScribe E-ink Notepad - $214 MobiScribe v5.18 Beginner’s guide Rocketbook Everlast Reusable Smart Notebook - $30 AmazonBasics Alexa Microwave - $42 Interview with Clemency Burton-Hill Year of Wonder: Classical Music to Enjoy Day by Day by Clemency Burton-Hill Year of Wonder playlists at iTunes and Spotify WQXR Radio in New York City Aria Code podcast Scala Radio launch in the UK Content Early Riser: A Novel by Jasper Fforde - to be released February 12, 2019 Winter World by A. G. Riddle - to be released February 26, 2019 Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style by Benjamin Dreyer The Man Who Played with Fire: Stieg Larsson’s Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin by Jan Stocklassa, translated by Tara F. Chace - to be released October 1, 2019 Next Week’s Guest Kelsey Skea, head of the new Amazon Crossing Kids imprint Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads! Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Author of This is Marketing: You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn to See Interview starts at 13:06 and ends at 45:08 “I have a bunch of regrets about how Amazon is steering the boat these days. One of the things I think they dropped the ball on is they’ve had a hundred opportunities to make Kindle a social platform, and they have dropped it. And they shouldn’t, because that is a really useful transformation--to be able to say ‘Where are the other thousand people who highlighted this? How can I have a discussion with them?’ That’s magic, and you can’t do it.” (Photo by Brian Bloom) News Amazon earnings release Om Malik on Amazon earnings release Tech Tip How to load the Google Play Store onto your Fire tablet    Interview with Seth Godin Seth Godin’s blog and The Marketing Seminar This is Marketing: You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn to See by Seth Godin Genius (formerly known as Rap Genius) commentary by Seth Godin on his book The Purple Cow What to Do When It’s Your Turn (and It’s Always Your Turn) by Seth Godin The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch An Analog Novel (3 Book Series) by Eliot Peper Content The Killer Collective by Barry Eisler Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads! Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player. Tech Tip from John Aga When installing the Google Play Store to your Fire tablet, it is important to do it in order as indicated in the article. I downloaded each one with a minute or two between downloads. I have a file manager app on my Fire tablet that not only displays the name of the file but the time the file was downloaded. You have to download them in a specific order then click and execute them in the same specific order. If you down load them a minute or two apart is easier then telling them apart based on their file name. It went smoothly when I did it. I was sure to download the file specified in the article even if I got messages that there was a newer versions available. I do not know if that was important or not but it was the approach I took. It will be important that Google Play Services and the Google Play Store are the first ones updated before downloading any other apps from the Google Play Store. Some time after I have installed the Google Play Store on my Amazon Fire 10" HD tablet, I started to get the message " cannot access the server" whenever I opened the Google Play Store. To resolve this I went into settings, then clicked on Apps and Games, then clicked on Manage All Applications, then clicked on the app Google Play Store. Then I clicked on "clear cache, clear memory, and force stop". I then rebooted my tablet and the problem was gone. If it should happen again I would just repeat these steps to clear it up. Another tech tip: On a separate subject I have notice that sometimes after I have updated one or more apps, one or more apps will move from the SD card back to internal memory. This is easily resolved. First click on settings. Second click on storage. Third all your settings should be set by default to include "install supported apps on your SD card". The other settings you want have on are to download movies, music, photos, personal videos, audiobooks and ebooks to your SD card. About one third down on the storage page the SD card and amount of storage is displayed. Just below that there is a command to "Move Apps to SD Card". Just below that it will either say "0" apps available or it will say if there are one or more apps available to move back to the SD card. Just click on that and it will automatically move any apps that moved back to internal during an app update and move them back to the SD card. This can take just a few seconds or a minute or two depending on how many apps there are to move back to the SD card. It is worth checking this once and awhile to ensure your Amazon Fire Tablet is using all storage in the most effective way possible.

Author of Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives Interview starts at 15:43 and ends at 43:50 “You can be super clever and have all your tricks, but fundamentally everything in your life is crowding out something else in your life. At some point you have to choose, and the choice should be thoughtful.” News “The Prime Challenges for Amazon’s New Delivery Robot” by Matt Simon and Arielle Pardes Gear at Wired - January 23, 2019 “Meet Scout: Field testing a new delivery system with Amazon Scout” by Sean Scott at Amazon’s Day One blog - January 23, 2019 Tech Tip Starbucks Reorder skill for Alexa Interview with Tim Harford Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives by Tim Harford “How frustration can make us more creative” - TED talk by Tim Harford in September, 2015 “Tim Harford: how behavioral economics helped kick my phone addiction” at The Financial Times - January 17, 2019 (Behind paywall, try Googling the title) Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport - Available for pre-order, to be delivered February 5, 2019 Feedly Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms by Hannah Fry The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data by David Spiegelhalter - Available for pre-order at Amazon.co.uk to be delivered March 28, 2019 The Invention of  Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution by David Wootton Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It by Chris Clearfield Marie Kondo’s website The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Harford 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy BBC podcast by Tim Harford Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy by Tim Harford Fright Tonight Alexa skill Content Early Riser by Jasper Fforde - available for preorder (hardcover only) with delivery February 12, 2019 The Opposite of Woe: My Life in Beer and Politics by John Hickenlooper Next Week’s Guest Seth Godin, author of This Is Marketing: You Can’t be Seen Until You Learn to See Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads! Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Project Manager for MobiScribe reader/writer by TeamUC Interview starts at 18:37 and ends at 41:06 “It’s basically going to be like a Kindle that you can write on. If you’ve ever had your work documents on the Kindle it must be frustrating, because you feel like you can’t write on your work documents even though you have it in a meeting. So now we have PDF annotation integrated into the device as well as a separate note-taking software.” Comments Open Road Integrated Media list of eBooks, by category Sprocket Photo Paper and camera from Hewlett Packard Polaroid Swinger camera, circa 1965 (Wikipedia) “Alexa gains support for location-based reminders and routines, calling features and more” by Sarah Perez at TechCrunch - December, 2018 News The challenge of covering the Bezos divorce for The Washington Post  - Vanity Fair January 14, 2019 “Ghosts of former Sears buildings could become shiny new Whole Foods” at The Takeout - January 11, 2019 “Amazon is holding a public version of its secretive MARS conference” by Brian Heater at TechCrunch - January 17, 2019 “How behavioral economics helped kick my phone addiction” by Tim Harford at The Financial Times - January 17, 2019 Interview with Roger Wang MobiScribe project at Indiegogo Wacom TeamUC Facebook page APKPure Calibre reMarkable tablet Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads! Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Author of Typeset in the Future: Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies Interview starts at 18:51and ends at 43:30 “So much of this stuff that, when we watch 2001 today, makes it feel fresh, makes it still feel futuristic was way ahead of its time at the time that the movie was created." News “The ‘Future Book’ is Here, But It’s Not What We Expected” by Craig Mod at Wired - December 20, 2018 Amazon Showroom - TechCrunch story Amazon Key for Garage - Verge story Echo Auto is shipping - TechCrunch story Amazon pilot project with free samples - Axios story Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos to divorce - WSJ story Tech Tip Readwise now has autosync of your highlights Interview with Dave Addey Typeset in the Future: Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies Content Freedive, the new IMDB streaming service WSJ Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads! Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Chief Marketing Officer at Open Road Integrated Media Interview starts at 9:51 and ends at 38:35 “I do think we’re unusual in that we consistently continue to market these books day in and day out for many years. I think that’s the benefit we bring to our partners in the Open Road Ignition program, that we are taking those eBooks that they don’t have time or resources to market in an ongoing way and doing it on their behalf.” News “Amazon, to Win in Booming Rural India, Reinvents Itself” by Eric Bellman at The Wall Street Journal - December 31, 2018 Russ Grandinetti interviewed for Amazon’s Day One Blog - November 14, 2017 “Hiring for Amazon’s Alexa team massively outpaces that of Apple’s Siri” by James Mattone at Thinknum - January 3, 2019 “Alexa, what’s a screen pass? Amazon speaker can teach football to casual NFL fans” by Edward C. Baig at USA Today - January 3, 2019 Tech Tip Alexa voice commands for Hulu Interview with Mary McAveney Open Road Integrated Media “New Life for Old Classics, as Their Copyrights Run Out” by Alexandra Alter at The New York Times - December 29, 2018 Cane: A Library of America eBook Classic by Jean Toomer ($9.99 on Kindle) Content “The 50 Best TV Shows on Amazon Prime Right Now” at Paste - January 3, 2019 Comments 2019 Goodreads challenge The Autobiography of Mark Twain: Deluxe Modern Classic Echo Spot - $130 at Amazon.com Next Week’s Guest Dave Addey, author of Typeset in the Future: Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads! Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Forbes contributor & co-founder of Omni Talk blog Interview starts at 7:33 and ends at 41:04 “2018 was a watershed year in terms of how things transpired. This to me was really the year you saw Amazon try to become a physical retailer.” News Amazon holiday press release - December 26, 2018 Sphero Mini Blue: The App-Controlled Robot Ball Tech Tip Calibre Recomendo Fakespot Fakespot Chrome extension Interview with Chris Walton Omni Talk blog “Amazon’s New Mall of America Installation is Absolutely Fabulous” by Chris Walton at Forbes - October 2, 2018 Ryan ToysReview (YouTube channel with 17 million subscribers) “The Nuance of Implicit Vs. Explicit Search Could Be Amazon’s Achilles Heel” by Chris Walton at Forbes - November 20, 2018 Amazon Spark Glossier Amazon Treasure Truck Robomart Zume Pizza Content Moby Dick: Complete and Unabridged (Illustrated with Included Audiobook) - 99 cents at Amazon.com Next Week’s Guest Dave Addey, author of Typeset in the Future: Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads! Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Creator of Calibre Interview starts at 9:53 and ends at 43:03 “So the first and most important thing that is different between a Calibre library and your Kindle collection is that you actually own the books in your Calibre library, whereas you stream them from Amazon for your Kindle collection. ” News Bradley Metrock on Barnes & Noble Will Amazon buy Target? Jefferson Graham’s Talking Tech podcast (look for episode dated December 18, 2018) Amazon Treasure Truck Rocketbook Everlast Smart Reusable Notebook Tech Tip How to play Apple Music on Amazon Echo devices - Business Insider Moby Dick by Herman Melville at Standard EBooks Vector robot from Anki Interview with Kovid Goyal Calibre Calibre listing of eBooks free of Digital Rights Management Next Week’s Guest Chris Walton, an original thinker in retail strategy and frequent Forbes contributor Debut of “Ocean Park Blues” Click here for a free download of my debut song, “Ocean Park Blues,” recorded this week at The Bridge Sound & Stage in Cambridge, Mass. My thanks to Mertz, the sound engineer who did a fantastic job capturing my song in a very presentable form, and to my amazing guitar teacher, Steve Netsky, who helped me bring this song all the way home. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads! Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

TV news anchor and author of the Traveler series Interview starts at 10:21 and ends at 41:59 “Writing is a muscle, I think. If you don’t use it you lose that. Because I write every day both creatively and for my job, I think that’s part of what helps me to write as much as I do as quickly as I do. I write under deadline, so creating my own self-imposed deadlines is pretty easy. It’s just instead of having a time deadline I have a word-count deadline or a date. I think doing one every day actually helps doing the other every day.” News “Amazon has Thrown in the Towel on a Third Bookstore” by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader - December 7, 2018 Amazon’s physical stores “Amazon Kindle Audible Bundle is now available” by Michael Kozlowski at Good E-Reader - December 9, 2018 Kindle Paperwhite Audible bundle - $139 Tech Tip “You can now ask Amazon Alexa to read your email messages and respond by voice--here’s how” by Todd Haselton at CNBC - December 10, 2018 Interview with Tom Abrahams Tom Abrahams author page at Amazon.com The Traveler (6 Book Series) by Tom Abrahams The Alt Apocalypse (4 Book Series) by Tom Abrahams “President George H. W. Bush’s aide Jim McGrath reflects on ‘perfect’ man” - Tom Abrahams story on ABC13 TV - December 2, 2018 Content “What a 19th-century French novel tells us about Jeff Bezos and Amazon” by Ciara Byrne at FastCompany - December 10, 2018 The Ladies’ Paradise by Emile Zola Outro Thanks to Colter and Jaego for closing out this episode with their rousing rendition of the Australian national anthem. Their Dad’s podcast is The Sustainability Puzzle by Dan Short. Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads! Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Author of We Miss All the Great Parties Interview starts at 2:12 and ends at 35:59 “I had this traditionalist view that I wanted to hold the paper book and feel the turning of the page. I was absolutely wrong in my assumptions. Reading on an eReader felt like reading. It was still this sort of cuddly, warm, meditative, reflective experience. I could sit and read for hours on it. It fit in my jacket pocket, and I could take it with me, and I found that I was reading more when I had my digital reader.” News “Amazon Prime Health is coming, according to an early investor” by Mark Sullivan at FastCompany - November 30, 2018 Morning Consult picks Amazon as the most-loved brand in the U.S. Interview with David Hopkins “How a TV Sitcom Triggered the Downfall of Western Civilization: The one where we retain our sanity in a stupid world” by David Hopkins at Medium - March 22, 2016 Articles published by David Hopkins in D Magazine David Hopkins at Medium “Friends” on Netflix Pod Save America “The Unfortunate Appeal of the Heroic Idiot” TEDxSMU talk by David Hopkins - December 9, 2016 Wim Bens, president & Founder of Lakewood Brewing Co. We Miss All the Great Parties by David Hopkins Mark Twain: A Life by Ron Powers “The Lowest Animal” by Mark Twain (PDF) Slouching Toward Bethlehem: Essays by Joan Didion The Walking Dead series by Robert Kirkman “‘Yeah, I’m Not for Everyone.’ Lena Dunham comes to terms with herself” by Allison P. Davis at New York Magazine - November 2, 2018 Ask Me Anything When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II by Molly Guptill Manning “Gobble Gobble - What’s the Deal with Thanksgiving?” Next Week’s Guest Tom Abrahams, author of Home: A Post Apocalyptic/Dystopian Adventure (The Traveler Book 1) Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads! Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.