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 – [...]

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 [...]

Last week, I attended a 5 day Guitar and Ensemble Institute sponsored by the National Association of Pastoral Musicians (www.npm.org).  The week is designed to be a time of learning , retreat, and renewal, with a specific focus on lessons and techniques on various instruments including Guitar, Piano, Voice, and Percussion.  I am generally the [...]

A wise and loving mother recently joined KindleBoards to plan a very special care package for her son in Iraq.
“I joined the KindleBoards community several weeks ago to get advice about the feasibility of sending a Kindle to my son in Iraq,” writes KindleBoards member Guernsey. “I’ve whiled away the early weeks of his deployment [...]

Now here’s a real piece of Kindling, lasered up in plywood by Cockeyed’s Rob and his buddy Windell. The Amazon Kindling features:
Wireless: Start reading anytime, anywhere; no monthly fees, service plans, or hunting for Wi-Fi hotspots
Uses no batteries or electricity; observe it for days without recharging.
No need to shut it off during air travel
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You never know who will be drawn to Kindle, and for what reasons. I’m reminded of that by this post from KindleBoards member geoffthomas:
I was riding on the WashDC Metrorail, commuting home last night, and had a discussion with a family of tourists.  My seatmate was a young woman with her perhaps 7 year-old daughter [...]

Kindleboards member analysis had many of us chuckling with this tongue-in-cheek review of a “new” book.  I hope you enjoy it  and for more giggles and laughs, come visit us at Kindleboards. We are a very witty group!
Review of Setting Sun, by Eloise Baker
I was just browsing in the book store and saw the newly [...]

One of the features I really like on my Kindle is the ability to look up words in the dictionary. In my pre-Kindle days, I usually didn’t look things up, only because a dictionary was rarely close at hand while I was reading. But the Kindle, because it is so easy, I’ve become quite enamored [...]

The Kindle 2 debuted three weeks ago. (Yes, it was only three weeks ago!)
In the unveiling, Jeff Bezos noted that the Kindle 2 is, amazingly, 25% thinner than the iPhone 3G (that’s the newer, thinner iPhone).
These photos show the relative thickness. Here’s my Kindle 2 and my iPhone 3G. That Kindle 2 is pretty slim [...]