I’m on my way to the right coast, and from seat 3A I’m enjoying Sarah Vowell’s fresh take on our country’s early Puritan settlers. In The Wordy Shipmates, she paints an insightful, and sometimes irreverant, portrait of John Winthrop and his fellow expatriots as they journey from Southampton, England to Massachusetts Bay.
I’m in first-class – [...]

Our Anniversary Contest is now complete, and I thank everyone who entered. We had over 200 mini-book reviews posted by our members, who again live up to their reputation as voracious readers and thoughtful reviewers.
Five of you won $50 Amazon gift certificates, and we’ve now drawn our grand prize winner. Major high-fives to B-Kay, [...]

Kindle firmware, for Kindle 2 and DX, is being updated to version 2.3 today.
The update brings native PDF capabilities to Kindle 2, along with a landscape orientation mode.
I’m on a plane, so unable to download it right now. But you can see the new features, and member reactions, in this thread: http://www.kindleboards.com/index.php/topic,15964.0.html

We’re collecting one-paragraph book recommendations from our readers, in our latest KindleBoards contest. (The recommendations are one-paragraph, not the books, wise-guy.)
So far five lucky readers have won Amazon gift certificates. Congratulations to Tip10, mlewis78, bjazman, loonlover, and Dankinia – well done! Your $50 gift certificates are on the way.
Next week we’ll draw the grand prize [...]

In a welcome bit of news, Amazon announced today that it’s working on a solution for improving the ways that eBooks can be organized on Kindle.
Right now, all of your downloaded eBooks are presented on your Kindle’s home page. They can be sorted in three ways: by most recently accessed, by title, or by author. [...]