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175 free woodworking books
Time to get your carpenter on: Evenfall Studios (www.evenfallstudios.com) has a collection of 175 old public domain woodworking books, mostly scanned via Google’s book scanning project, that cover...
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The verdict on the Blackberry Kindle app: needs a large screen to be of much use
Now that the Kindle for Blackberry app has been out for a few weeks, it’s been reviewed all over the web. I don’t have a Blackberry so I’ve had to sit this one out, but the summary from elsewhere seems...
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Make sure you're ready for the Kindle 2.5 update
According to excited posts on various forums, Amazon has started to send out the 2.5 update to Kindle 2 and Kindle DX owners. To be more accurate, they started the rollout a couple of weeks ago, but...
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Where's that Kindle 2.5 update?
It’s June 1st, and if you’re at all like me, you’re still reading on a Kindle running the 2.3.3 software (switch to your “Settings” screen and look in the lower right corner). Back in April, Kindle...
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Kindle software update 2.5.2 now available for everyone!
It’s here! It’s finally arrived! If, like me, you’ve been waiting for weeks now for that “late May” software update, you can turn off your Kindle’s wireless and download the update right now from...
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Amazon adds three more games to the Kindle Store
From the-digital-reader.com comes news that Amazon has rolled out more downloadable game apps for the Kindle platform; with these three latest additions, there are now at least six ways to avoid doing...
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Quick tip: Dealing with greyed-out books
Rarely, you’ll buy a book from the Kindle Store and it won’t download immediately to your device. Instead, the title will appear in your archive but it will be greyed out, with no option to complete...
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Why cloud-based ebooks bring out the Luddite in me
As I wrote previously, my current position on the books-in-the-cloud business model is that it’s deeply anti-consumer, because it takes away all concepts of ownership and passes the control upstream...
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Read an Ebook Week means special deals and offers
When “Read an E-Book Week” was started in 2004, it made sense to try to expose more readers to the convenience of ebooks. The Kindle didn’t exist, the readers that did were expensive, and ebook...
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Quora offering free “Best of Quora 2010-2012″ ebook
Quora, the question and answer site that’s been praised for its engaging writing, just sent its top writers a hardcover collection of 100 or so of the best answers published over the past two years,...
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