The Kindle Chronicles

Kindle News: Electronic newspaper readers in Germany and France, as well Dave Lester's Treeless Systems project in Denver that I profiled in a podcast two years ago.A rosy view of the Kindle's future sales and one not so rosy.One thing NOT to do with your Kindle.A Free Webinar, "Leveraging the Kindle - How to maximize the Kindle's benefits to your readers and your business," by Joe Wikert set for August 21, 2008 at 11 a.m. ET.   Joe is author of the Kindleville blog.Kindle Tech Tip:How to use FeedBooks to load RSS news feeds onto your Kindle for free.The "What's on Your Kindle Interview?" - Stephen Windwalker, author of the current Number 10 Kindle seller, How to Use the Amazon Kindle for Email & Over 100 Pages of Other Cool Tips (The Complete User's Guide to the Amazing Amazon Kindle. I taped the interview after lunch on August 6, 2008, at Casablanca in Harvard Square, Cambridge.  Steve describes his experience writing for the Kindle and tells what changes he hopes to see in the next version.Here is some of what's on his 14 pages of Kindle titles:The TechCrunch blogThe Senator's Wife by Sue MillerFree Amazon Daily BlogThe New York TimesKindle Quote: Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky.Kindle Comment: Bob Boyken of Bloomington, IndianaPhone comment line: 206-666-2713.  Please call and leave a comment, suggest someone for a "What's on Your Kindle Interview?" or offer ideas to improve this podcast.  I look forward to hearing from you!UPDATE: Click Here for .mp3 file. (Thanks to FeedBooks co-founder Hadrien Gardeur for the tip, which should enable us to read the full show notes on the Kindle and listen to podcast at the same time.  I'm going to try it now....)

The "What's on Your Kindle?" Interview: A telephone conversation with C.C. Chapman, who runs a digital marketing company called The Advance Guard and is host of the Accident Hash, Managing the Gray and U-Turn Cafe podcasts.  His informative comments include how he uses the Kindle to inspire him onward in writing a current manuscript.  What's on C.C's Kindle: subscriptions to The Boston Globe and Newsweek and Time magazines, Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith, personal .pdf documents, two books he can't talk about, and a manuscript he's working on.Kindle News: Spirit House, a Christopher G. Moore novel being offered for free on the Kindle through Aug. 28th, Josh Quittner's glowing Kindle review in Time, the Kindle Social Network, and my fruitless hunt for independent confirmation of the CrunchGear rumor of a new Kindle coming in October.Tech Tips: a hardware fix at 30K feet, keyboard shortcuts, and how to change the text justification.  Kindle Quote: inspiring words from The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie.Kindle Comments: SCG, Baratunde Thurston, and Kesler Woodward.  Music for the podcast is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording, courtesy of IODA Promonet.I'd REALLY like to include your feedback in this podcast, so please don't be shy: leave a comment at 206-666-2713 or email an audio file or text message to me at PodChronicles@gmail.com, or leave a comment here. The Kindle Chronicles is now listed for free subscription at the iTunes Store.  Please leave a comment!

mp3 version of Episode 2 featuring "What's On Your Kindle" interview with C.C. Chapman.

On this debut episode of The Kindle Chronicles, the "What's on Your Kindle?" interview is with The Onion's web-and-election wizard Baratunde Thurston, a comedian and blogger who offers great suggestions for a wished-for social network capability for the Kindle, and how the device has changed the way he reads.  Here is some of what's on Baratunde's Kindle:The Scar by China MievilleHere Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay ShirkyThe Daily KostreehuggerThe Huffington PostReadWriteWebThe New York TimesAlso in this episode, News of rumors of a new Kindle in October, a Tech Tip for changing the images on your screen in sleep mode, and a Kindle Quote from Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin.  Music for the podcast is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording, courtesy of IODA Promonet.I'd REALLY like to include listener feedback in this podcast, so please don't be shy: leave a comment at 206-666-2713 or email an audio file or text message to me at PodChronicles@gmail.com, or leave a message here in the comments.Photo of Baratunde Thurston reading his Kindle on the subway is courtesy of Silicon Alley Insider.

On this debut episode of The Kindle Chronicles, the "What's on Your Kindle?" interview is with The Onion's web-and-election wizard Baratunde Thurston, a comedian and blogger who offers great suggestions for a wished-for social network capability for the Kindle, and how the device has changed the way he reads.  Here is some of what's on Baratunde's Kindle:The Scar by China MievilleHere Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay ShirkyThe Daily KostreehuggerThe Huffington PostReadWriteWebThe New York TimesAlso in this episode, News of rumors of a new Kindle in October, a Tech Tip for changing the images on your screen in sleep mode, and a Kindle Quote from Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin.  Music for the podcast is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording, courtesy of IODA Promonet.I'd REALLY like to include listener feedback in this podcast, so please don't be shy: leave a comment at 206-666-2713 or email an audio file or text message to me at PodChronicles@gmail.com, or leave a message here in the comments.Photo of Baratunde Thurston reading his Kindle on the subway is courtesy of Silicon Alley Insider.