We’re wrapping up our book club discussions on Dead Until Dark, the first book in Charlaine Harris’ Southern Vampire series. KindleBoards member Robin.Goodfellow has led these lively discussions, which have involved dozens of KindleBoards members and received over 4,000 page views!
By popular demand, Robin has agreed to lead us through the next book in the [...]

The text-to-speech technology behind Kindle 2’s “Read to Me” is provided by Nuance technology. KindleBoards member ArtsAndHistoryFan – who worked at one time for a Berkeley speech technologies firm – posts that a recently-enhanced Nuance text speaker dubbed “Tom” seems to be the voice used in the new Kindle.
You can hear Tom by clicking on [...]

“When you bought your first Kindle, what was your previous Kindle experience?”
That’s the question posed by Leslie in a recent KindleBoards poll.
For me, I was sitting in a Starbucks in Atlanta when a lady at a nearby table started reading a Kindle. I was so excited, and – prodded by my wife – I worked [...]

It has been eight days since Amazon announced Kindle 2. (Is that possible? It seems like weeks since I ordered mine!)
Text-to-speech – a new feature introduced with the new Kindle – has seen some immediate controversy, with the Authors Guild protesting that the verbal reading of a book by a machine is a copyright infringement.
That [...]

On this President’s Day, it seems appropriate that the top Kindle Store seller in the History genre is Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. In this absorbing treatment, author Doris Kearns Goodwin describes Lincoln’s leadership gifts in the context of his cabinet choices. From the Amazon review:
The life and times of Abraham [...]

There is no doubt that among the young, technology is readily embraced and used. DeLancey Nicoll ‘10 is a perfect example on the front end of adopting a new technology. Not only is he an early adopter, he is a pioneer on campus and a sharer of valuable insight to fellow Kindle users, as well [...]

The display of Kindle 2 is enhanced from that of the original Kindle. Among the improvements: the Kindle 2 screen can display 16 shades of grey, as opposed to the original Kindle’s 4 shades of grey.
This makes a substantial difference in the quality of displayed images! KindleBoards member artsandhistoryfan posted an eye-opening analysis of the [...]

If you have a Kindle, you’re probably familiar with the phrase “Send Wirelessly to”. When you use your PC to download a book or sample from Amazon’s Kindle Store, you’ll see that phrase with a drop-down control to select which of your Kindles should receive it.
KindleBoards member ScottBooks has the habit of renaming his Kindle [...]

KindleBoards continues to gain momentum as a gathering place for Kindle owners, and we are now the largest independent Kindle site.
And this is true by a number of measures. We surpassed 1 million pageviews in each of the past two months, and it looks like February will be even higher. Our forums have 77,000 posts [...]

Stephen King provided some star power at the Kindle2 press conference on Monday. He read an excerpt from his new novella, UR, published exclusively in a Kindle edition. The Kindle in the story – and the Kindle in King’s hands at the press conference–was the color affectionately known as “Pepto Bismol” pink. No problem—apparently [...]