The Kindle Chronicles

Senior Editor at Amazon Original Stories Interview starts at 16:40 and ends at 51:54 Note: I will be discussing my Kjersti Egerdahl interview Monday May 2, 2021 at 1 pm EDT (Note the new day and time) on Clubhouse. Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join! Links “LinkedIn Names Amazon No. 1 Company Where Americans Want to Work in 2021” - Amazon Press Release April 28, 2021 All New Fire HD 10 and Fire HD 10 Plus press release - April 27, 2020 Fire HD10 Productivity Bundle Kjersti Egerdahl (Linkedin) The Last Girl by Joe Hart   Amazon Original Stories         YOUNG BLOOD by Andrew Barrer         Nameless Season 1 by Dean Koontz         EMERGENCY SKIN by N.K. Jemison         ZIKORA by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie         TURNING POINT: A Short Story by Jeffery Deaver         Currency Collection featuring Kiley Reid, Jia Tolentino, Emma Cline, Justin Torres, Curtis Sittenfeld, Yiyun Li, Tom Perrotta, Cristina Henríquez         Everything My Mother Taught Me by Alice Hoffman         Nothing Like I Imagined (Except for Sometimes) by Mindy Kaling         YOU ARE READY FOR TAKEOFF by Susan Orlean         Take the Lead by Jessica Simpson         HUSH (a collection) with some of today's most popular and award-winning crime writers including Lisa Unger         The Viking Hondbók: Eat, Dress, and Fight Like a Warrior by Kjertsi Egerdahl If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 8:00 am Eastern Time.  The Kindle Chronicles is now available at Audible Podcasts. The only thing missing are ratings! If you have time, please consider leaving one in order to help others learn about the show.  Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Interview starts at 9:33 and ends at 51:30 Note: I will be discussing my James McQuivey interview Saturday April 24, 2021 at 4 pm EDT on Clubhouse. If you are a member of Clubhouse, please click here to join me. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join! Links Amazon updates Echo Buds (CNBC) Pre-order Echo Buds (2nd Gen) here at reduced price Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire by Brad Stone - available for preorder with delivery May 11, 2021 James McQuivey’s blog posts at Forrester.com Jeff Bezos’s last letter to shareholders as CEO - April 15, 2021 The WEIRDest People in the World by Joseph Henrich The “Big Five” human personality traits (Psychology Today) “The Clubhouse Party is Over” by Nick Bilton at Vanity Fair - April 23, 2021 Next Week’s Guest Kjersti Egerdahl, senior editor at Amazon Original Stories Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 8:00 am Eastern Time.  The Kindle Chronicles is now available at Audible Podcasts. The only thing missing are ratings! If you have time, please consider leaving one in order to help others learn about the show.  Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Author of Young Blood, an Amazon Original Series trilogy Interview starts at 21:00 and ends at 58:16 Photo by Jason Robbins Note: I will be discussing my Andrew Barrer interview Saturday April 17, 2021 at 4 pm EDT on Clubhouse. If you are a member of Clubhouse, please click here to join me. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join! Links Young Blood trilogy (Young Blood, Blue Dog and Crescent Moon) by Andrew Barrer - free to Prime members and Kindle Unlimited subscribers, includes free audio narration. “Can Blood from Young People Slow Aging? Silicon Valley Has Bet Billions It Will” by Adam Piore at Newsweek - April 7, 2021 Germantown Academy Ant-Man (2015) and Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) on Prime Video Die in a Gunfight - to be released this summer A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (Audible version narrated by Maggie Gyllenhaal) Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan (Audible version) Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck Amazon Publishing is celebrating World Book Day by offering 10 Kindle books from around the world for FREE. Deal ends at 11:59 p.m. PDT on April 24, 2021. Check it out! Next Week’s Guest James McQuivey, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 8:00 am Eastern Time.  The Kindle Chronicles is now available at Audible Podcasts. The only thing missing are ratings! If you have time, please consider leaving one in order to help others learn about the show.  Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Zooming with the author of Vanishing Asia Note: I will be discussing my Kevin Kelly interview Saturday April 10, 2021, at 4 pm ET on Clubhouse. If you are a member of Clubhouse, please click here to join me. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join! Links Kevin Kelly’s Kickstarter page for Vanishing Asia Kevin Kelly’s web page “Making a Fairie Door” video at Kevin’s TRY YouTube Channel Next Week’s Guest Andrew Barrer, author of the Young Blood Trilogy, published by Amazon Original Stories Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 8:00 am Eastern Time.  The Kindle Chronicles is now available at Audible Podcasts. The only thing missing are ratings! If you have time, please consider leaving one in order to help others learn about the show.  Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Len, Darlene, Sophie and Deb at our second rental on Sanibel Island Note: There will be no Clubhouse gathering tomorrow, because we are still on our drive from Sanibel to Cambridge, Mass. The weekly post-podcast Clubhouse salon will resume on April 9, 2021. Links Island Inn web cam on Sanibel Len’s Newsletter Posts on Substack: Travels with Sophie - April 2, 2021 Leaving Sanibel - March 30, 2021 Whelk versus iPhone - March 13 The preferred hotel chain of The Kindle Chronicles is Marriott Courtyard! Next Week’s Guest Kevin Kelly, author of Vanishing Asia, a set of 3 books comprising 1,000 pages that captures Asia’s disappearing traditions and vanishing designs, in 35 countries. Click here for Kickstarter page. Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 8:00 am Eastern Time.  The Kindle Chronicles is now available at Audible Podcasts. The only thing missing are ratings! If you have time, please consider leaving one in order to help others learn about the show.  Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

City Manager of Sanibel, Florida Interview starts at 19:29 and ends at 58:23 Note: I will be discussing my Judith Zimomra interview Saturday March 27, 2021 at 4 pm ET on Clubhouse. If you are a member of Clubhouse, please click here to join me. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join! Links Amazon Halo Band “Bose announces Sleepbuds II” by Chris Welch at The Verge - September 22, 2020 Amazon hiring spree during pandemic by Nick Wingfield at The Information - March 18, 2021 “Amazon picks Twitter fight with Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren amid union campaign” by Irina Ivanova at CBS News - March 26, 2021 Judith A. Zimomra, Sanibel City Manager City of Sanibel website Southern Living’s selections for “The South’s Best Beach Towns 2021” - March 9, 2021 Judie’s camera equipment includes a Nikon D3400 body and Tamron zoom lens Judie’s Facebook photos including this one of an Ibis in flight Email from Tom on Kindle software updates: Recent Kindles and Kindle for iOS have had the re-designed ‘Aa settings’ (with Themes and reading settings) for some time now, but Fire’s Kindle app and Kindle for Android have lagged behind. The latest update gives these the same look and feel.  Also it seems the ‘Simplified Home Screen’ feature on Fire tablets is available for 4th generation and later Fire tablets (Running FireOS 5). It’s pretty impressive that 7 year old tablets are still getting updates (including Kindle app updates, Series grouping, etc.).  The Fire and Android Kindle apps are very close cousins. The current versions are 14.40.100 and 8.40.100, respectively (note the identical ‘40.100’ version suffix). They are feature-identical, except that the Fire app has text-to-speech. But there are still a few feature differences between Kindle for Fire/Android and Kindle for iOS:  On Fire/Android you can sort collection items by Recent, Title, or Author, as you can on Kindles. Collection item sorting options are not available in the iOS app. (However, on both you can rearrange the order by dragging items to where you want them). Operating on items in Library is different: on Fire/Android it defaults to multiple selection, and you have to bring the action menu, while on iOS, it brings up action menu directly when you select (long press) an item and to select more items you choose Select Multiple Items from the menu. Also, on iOS, if you have items in List view, drag left reveals Archive option (delete download. This is not available on Fire/Android. Here iOS has the edge: it takes fewer gestures to remove a download, for example. No Word Runner (I would actually use this some) No Word Wise   It’s mostly 1 & 2 that are a little annoying if you are switching platforms at all. People probably are not clamoring for 3 & 4, and most probably don’t know 3 and 4 exist. Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 8:00 am Eastern Time.  The Kindle Chronicles is now available at Audible Podcasts. The only thing missing are ratings! If you have time, please consider leaving one in order to help others learn about the show.  Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Founder and President of Ann Rittenberg Literary Agency Interview starts at 15:12 and ends at 53:38 Note: I will be discussing my Ann Rittenberg interview Saturday March 20, 2021 at 4 pm ET on Clubhouse. If you are a member of Clubhouse, please click here to join me. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join! Links Amazon Care  Long Live the Nook! Mobi, we hardly knew ye “Michael Dorman to Headline ‘Joe Pickett’ Drama Series Ordered by Spectrum Originals” by Nellie Andreeva and Denise Petski at Deadline - March 18, 2021 Ann Rittenberg Literary Agency Ann’s 2002 talk at Bennington, “The Successful Writer’s Personality” C.J. Box Your First Novel: An Author Agent Team Share the Keys to Achieving Your Dream by Ann Rittenberg and Laura Whitcomb Dennis Lehane Dead by Dawn: A Novel (Mike Bowditch Mysteries, 12) by Paul Doiron - available for pre-order with release on June 29, 2021 Amazon Crossing Dean Koontz’s Jane Hawk series Brad Parks The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America by Matt Kracht Next Week’s Guest: Judith A. Zimomra, Sanibel City Manager Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 8:00 am Eastern Time.  The Kindle Chronicles is now available at Audible Podcasts. The only thing missing are ratings! If you have time, please consider leaving one in order to help others learn about the show.  Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Author of How to Train Your Mind: Exploring the Productivity Benefits of Meditation, an Audible Original Interview starts at 15:54 and ends at 55:13 Note: I will be discussing my Chris Bailey interview Saturday March 13, 2021 at 4 pm ET on Clubhouse. If you are a member of Clubhouse, please click here to join me. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join! Links “What Big Tech Antitrust Foe Lina Khan Could Do at the FTC” by Josh Sisco at The Information - March 10, 2021 “Why Tech Breakups Could be  Good for Shareholders” by Martin Peers at The Information - March 11, 2021 “Amazon staffers reportedly fear secret ‘Vesta’ robot will be a pricey flop” by Noah Manskar at the New York Post - March 10, 2021 “Amazon’s Halo fitness tracker is getting Alexa integration” by Dan Seifert at The Verge - March 4, 2021 Amazon Halo Chris Bailey’s website, A Life of Productivity Books by Chris Bailey: The Productivity Project: Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy (2016) and  Clear Sky Retreat Center in Cranbrook, Alberta The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence The Happiness Advantage: How a Positive Brain Fuels Success in Work and Life by Sean Achor Hyperfocus: How to Manage Your Attention in a World of Distraction (2018) Freedom distractions blocker app Becoming Better podcast by Chris Bailey and Ardyn Nordstrom Next Week’s Guest: Ann Rittenberg, literary agent for C. J. Box and other best-selling authors Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 8:00 am Eastern Time.  The Kindle Chronicles is now available at Audible Podcasts. The only thing missing are ratings! If you have time, please consider leaving one in order to help others learn about the show.  Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Author of Dark Sky, Book 21 in the Joe Pickett series Photo by Dave Neligh Interview starts at 19:40 and ends at 43:22 Note: I will be discussing my C. J. Box interview Saturday March 6, 2021 at 4 pm ET on Clubhouse. If you are a member of Clubhouse, please click here to join me. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join! Links President Biden’s video on union election in Alabama Amazon EU blog on Working at Amazon “When Amazon Raises Its Minimum Wage, Local Companies Follow Suit” by Ben Casselman and Jim Tankersley at The New York Times - March 5, 2021 All-new Echo Show 10 (3rd Generation) Eink.link “Eink.link is a website directory for e-readers” by Mark Frauenfelder at boingboing - March 2, 2021 “How New E Ink Tablets Combine the Best of Kindles and iPads” by Alex Cranz at The Wall Street Journal - March 3, 2021 C.J. Box’s website C.J. Box livestream recording at The Tattered Cover bookstore - March 4, 20212 Obituary of Doug Crowe in the Casper Star-Tribune - December 4, 2020 “Big Sky” TV series on ABC, based on The Highway by C. J. Box Bob Budd, executive director of the Wyoming Wildlife & Natural Resource Trust Next Week’s Guest: Friday, March 12: Chris Bailey, author and narrator of How to Train Your Mind, an Audible Original Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 8:00 am Eastern Time.  The Kindle Chronicles is now available at Audible Podcasts. The only thing missing are ratings! If you have time, please consider leaving one in order to help others learn about the show.  Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Author of The Other Emily Interview starts at 23:28 and ends at 55:19 Note: I will be discussing my interview with Dean Koontz Saturday February 27, 2021 at 4 pm ET on Clubhouse. If you are a member of Clubhouse, please click here to join me. Links Pocketbook Inkpad Color 7.8 - at Goodereader.com The all-new Echo Show 10 (3rd Generation) Instagram photo of Sophie listening to my playing guitar How to Train Your Mind by Chris Bailey, an Audible Original The Husband: A Novel by Dean Koontz (published in 2007) Nameless, a six-story collection by Dean Koontz Canine Companions for Independence Upcoming Guests Next week: C J Box, author of Dark Sky, Book 21 in the Joe Pickett series, available for pre-order with release March 2, 2021 Friday, March 12: Chris Bailey, author and narrator of How to Train Your Mind, an Audible Original Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 8:00 am Eastern Time.  The Kindle Chronicles is now available at Audible Podcasts. The only thing missing are ratings! If you have time, please consider leaving one in order to help others learn about the show.  Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.