The Kindle Chronicles

Author of Pandemic and other science-based thrillers Interview starts at 14:04 and ends at 47:39 Links “Amazon One lets you pay at stores with the palm of your hand” by Stan Schroeder at Mashable - September 29, 2020 Amazon One home page “The first Amazon Fresh grocery store with smart Dash carts opens in LA” by Maggie Tillman at Pocket-Lint - September 17, 2020 Amazon Halo Health and Wellness Band “Amazon Quietly Expands Large-Scale Covid Testing Program for Warehouses” by Paris Martineau at The Information - September 24, 2020 (probably behind a paywall). “Applying Spaced Repetition and Active Recall to Books to Hack Your Brain” by Daniel Doyon at the Readwise blog - September 15, 2020   A G Riddle’s web site and Official Store at Amazon.com Next Week’s Guest Dean Koontz, author of Elsewhere, available for pre-order with release on October 6, 2020 Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Darlene and Sophie at the table where we discussed Amazon's new products, announced yesterday at virtual press event Other coverage of Amazon's new-products event: Day One blog Business Insider The Washington Post The Wall Street Journal    

Author of  Repairing Jefferson’s America: A Guide to Civility and Enlightened Citizenship Interview starts at 6:37 and ends at 48:46 Links “Amazon is developing the Kindle Paperwhite 5 with Glowlight” by Michael Kozlowski at Good EReader.com - September 17, 2020 Amazon Book Clubs early access “Amazon FreeTime Unlimited rebranded as Kids Plus with more videos, music” by Alison DeNisco at CNET - September 15, 2020 Amazon Kids announced at Day One Amazon blog - September 14, 2020 “Amazon Alexa can now connect to printers, here is how” by Cosmin Vasile at phoneArena.com - September 14, 2020 Clay Jenkinson’s podcast, The Thomas Jefferson Hour, and recent book, Repairing Jefferson’s America: A Guide to Civility and Enlightened Citizenship Eyeglass Nose Pads ($7.99 at Amazon.com) recommended by Dave Slusher of The Evil Genius Chronicles podcast for a better fit with Echo Frames Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” or “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Author of House Lessons: Renovating a Life and The Scent Keeper Interview starts at 2:10 and ends at 41:18 Links Erica Bauermeister’s web site and virtual book launch for House Lessons Erica’s books at Amazon.com My August 29, 2020 interview with Joe Lemay, Founder and CEO of Rocketbook Livescribe Click Here and request an invitation to the Len's Birthday Bash Facebook group in order watch the Jim Robitaille Trio's performance at my birthday party on August 30. Enjoy! Next Week’s Guest Clay Jenkinson, host of The Thomas Jefferson Hour podcast and author of Repairing Jefferson’s America: A Guide to Civility and Enlightened Citizenship Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” or “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Author of Interference Interview starts at 14:05 and ends at 49:17 Links FAA certifies Prime Air for drone delivery tests New life for the nook?  The Creative Penn podcast with Len Edgerly interview Amazon Driver a Hero in Ohio Fire TV Stick 4K - $39.99 at Amazon.com How to Quiet Your Devices Brad Parks’s web site Essex Public Library library friends virtual book launch party for Interference Chad Zunker’s web site Hilary Davidson’s web site Unthinkable by Brad Parks - available for pre-order with delivery on July 27, 2021 Next Week’s Guest Erica Bauermeister, author of The Scent Keeper and House Lessons: Renovating a Life Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” or “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Co-founder and CEO of Rocketbook Interview starts at 13:35 and ends at 54:00 Links Amazon Halo - Early Access special price of $64.99  “Amazon unveils Halo to battle Apple Watch and Fitbit — tracks activity, body fat, emotions” by Christina Farr at CNBC - August 27, 2020 Echo Frames - $179.99 at Amazon.com “How to Make Alexa talk faster (or slower)” by Hugh Langley at the ambient - July 8, 2020 Rocketbook web site FriXion pen by Pilot Rocketbook Panda Planner (executive size, includes FriXion pen and microfiber cloth) at Amazon.com - $35 Rocketbook Fusion Notebook at Amazon.com - $37 Rocketbook Orbit Kickstarter - pledges starting at $29 Palmer Method of penmanship (Wikipedia) Rocketbook Beacons for whiteboards - $15.00 at Amazon.com Note: Please email me at PodChronicles AT gmail if you’d like an invitation to the private Facebook group Len’s Birthday Bash to hear the Jim Robitaille Trio’s livestream jazz performance at my 70th birthday party. If all goes according to plan, they will be playing in a studio in southern Massachusetts, streaming to my Fire TV Edition Toshiba smart TV here in Ocean Park, Maine. The music will begin a little before 11 am ET on Sunday, August 30th. I hope you can join us! Upcoming Guests Brad Parks, author of Interference, available for pre-order with delivery Erica Bauermeister, author of The Scent Keeper Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” or “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Editor-in-Chief of Publishing Perspectives Interview starts at 15:47 and ends at 51:40 Links “Amazon Names Dave Clark Consumer CEO to Replace Retiring Jeff Wilke” by Matt Day at  “Executives who work for Amazon’s logistics kingpin Dave Clark become ‘Dave Whisperers’” by Rachel Premack at Business Insider - August 21, 2020 “Prime Day 2020? Amazon kicks off huge sale with deals on 38 Amazon devices” by Elyse Betters Picaro at ZDNet - August 18, 2020 Porter Anderson’s Linkedin page The Bookseller and FutureBook.net Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center Delta Airlines FAQ on coronavirus impact Frankfurt Book Fair “Digital Programming: The UK’s Women’s Prize Would Like to Sell You a Ticket” by Porter Anderson at Publishing Perspectives - August 19, 2020 “US Publishers, Authors, Booksellers Call Out Amazon’s ‘Concentrated Power’ in the Market” by Porter Anderson at Publishing Perspectives - August 17, 2020 Books recommended by Porter Anderson: Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne Applebaum, The Madman Theory: Trump Takes on the World by Jim Sciutto, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump, Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth by Brian Stelter (available for pre-order with release on August 25, 2020) Upcoming Guests Joe Lemay, co-founder and CEO of Rocketbook Brad Parks, author of Interference, available for pre-order with delivery Erica Bauermeister, author of The Scent Keeper Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” or “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer,

Manager of Kindle Accessibility at Amazon Interview starts at 16:17 and ends at 52:05 Links PocketBook Color - available at Good E Reader for $219.99 plus shipping Echo Frames - $179.99 at Amazon.com “Amazon and Mall Operator Look at Turning Sears, J.C. Penney Stores Into Fulfillment Centers” by Esther Fung and Sebastian Herrera at The Wall Street Journal - August 9, 2020 JoAnna Hunt at Linkedin “A commitment to accessibility and inclusion” at Amazon’s Day One blog - July 15, 2020 Reading Ruler Next Week’s Guest Porter Anderson, editor-in-chief of Publishing Perspectives Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” or “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” 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 Research Interview starts at 7:43 and ends at 49:35 Links Rocketbook reusable notebook (mini) - $13.56 at Amazon.com James McQuivey’s website Nicholas A. Christakis “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox” by Lina M. Khan at The Yale Law Journal - January 2017 Jeff Bezos’s opening statement to Congress (YouTube) - July 29, 2020 The Media Monopoly by Ben H. Bagdikian (paperback only) Burpee Challenge Wim Hof website The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It by Neal Bascomb This Week in Virology podcast The Creative Penn  Next Week’s Guest JoAnna Hunt, Manager-Kindle Accessibility at Amazon Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” or “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.  

Curator of a free poem-of-the-week email list Interview starts at 20:34 and ends at 51:52 Links Jeff Bezos’s opening statement to Congress (YouTube) - July 29, 2020 “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox” by Lina M. Khan at The Yale Law Review - January 2017 “Amazon confirms Prime Day delay in the US” by Jon Porter at The Verge - July 21, 2020 reMarkable 2 tablet - available for pre-order at $399 iPad Pro - starting at $749 To request inclusion on Richard Bruno’s free email list for weekly poems, please email him at richardgbruno AT gmail DOT com “The familiarity of a poem: Connie Schultz” at Cleveland.com - April 13, 2011 Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” or “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.