As a long-time reader of the romance genre I’ve watched it go through many fads. I have 1500+ paperback books crammed into 5 bookshelves that line one whole wall from floor to ceiling. To me they are a symbol of accomplishment. All the pretty colors of the spines make a decorative mosaic that makes [...]

Last week, I presented at a conference on “Innovations in Content Delivery,” which gave me the opportunity to talk quite a bit about the Kindle! During my presentation, I happened to mention a book I had recently read, The Gurnsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. In one [...]

Tonight, KindleBoards will be hosting a chat with author Boyd Morrison. Enter our chatroom at 5pm Pacific, for a chance to meet Boyd and discuss his novels.
Boyd is the author of The Ark, which I am enjoying now, as well as The Palmyra Impact and The Adamas Blueprint. All are available for Kindle.
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Oh, there is much joy in KindleBoards today, as Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is now available from the Kindle Store.
The LOTR is one of my all-time favorite books. I remember being in Grade 7 the first time I saw the book; it was on a shelf in the BookMobile that would pull into [...]

Several Kindleboards members, myself included, are reading Taking Woodstock by Elliot Tiber with Tom Monte.
I first learned about this book about a year ago, when it was announced that it was going into production as a new film from Focus Features. Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain; Lust, Caution) was slated to direct. James Schamus, a frequent [...]

Join us tonight at 9 PM Eastern, for another live chat about Charlaine Harris’ Living Dead in Dallas.
The last chat we had drew over 900 chat messages! Tonight, Robin is back to lead our discussions on this, the second in the Southern Vampire mystery series.
Join the discussions tonight in our Kindleboards Chat Room!

Kindleboards member, Kindle owner, and book author Rick R. Reed (who goes by the nickname horrorauthor on Kindleboards) was honored on Saturday, March 7, 2009 when he received the EPPIE award for best GLBT book of the year for his book, Orientation. There were seven finalists in the category; I am familiar with the titles [...]

Kindleboards members and Kindle owners don’t need to be convinced of the value of reading ebooks–we’re already converts. But the bonus to all of us during “Read an Ebook Week” is the number of free books that are available during the week to support the cause. Whether you like science fiction, romance, mysteries or non-fiction, [...]

Kindle owners are, by and large, avid readers and many have favorite books and authors. So, last week while many Kindleboards members were eagerly anticipating the delivery of their new generation 2 Kindles, Vampyre set off on a road trip to meet his favorite author. Kim Harrison was kicking off a book tour in Charlotte, [...]

In yesterday’s entry about the Oscars, I mentioned that The Reader, the Swiss book by Bernhard Schlinck upon which the best picture nominee is based, is not available in a Kindle version. Kindleboards’ member Sparkplug kindly pointed out that I was wrong. The English translation is available for the Kindle. Not only that, it was [...]