Amazon have just posted another free app for the Kindle. It’s called Grid Detective, and it’s a logic puzzle type of a game.
You start each level with a set of clues. Your goal is to deduce the solution based on the apparently unrelated clues. There are 10 Easy, 10 Moderate, and 10 Hard puzzles in the app, and the easy ones look difficult to me.
On a related note, I’ve also added this app to the page which lists free Kindle apps.
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HP sent out another newsletter tonight with a new offer for 4 more free apps. Like the last set of free apps, these are limited in quantity and probably also limited to the US. Also like the last apps, this set has a theme (Learn-Explore-Discover-Play), only this set has a more explicit and better conceived theme.
Hmm. I was looking over the past free app offers, and I noticed that HP appear to be giving away a set of apps every week. Counting the two 6 packs that HP announced on their blog, this is actually the 4th such offer. I wonder if this is going to be a weekly event for HP?
If so, that would be a sign of an ongoing marketing effort which would indicate that HP might be planning to bring back the TouchPad.
BTW, you might want to visit this page from your TouchPad; it would give you the chance to copy&paste the promo codes and that would be the easiest way to enter them.
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Did you get a chance to use either of the free TouchPad app promotions that HP ran a few weeks back? If you didn’t then I have some good news for you. I’ve just come across a post over on FatWallet with some promo codes. Someone, somewhere, is running a new promotion for the TouchPad.
The funny thing is, I don’t know where these codes are from. They worked for me, but I do not know who is sponsoring them, expiration date, or the limitations. Use them at your own risk.
Update: The codes come from the HP webOS newsletter. They’re US only, limited in supply., and appear to be open to everyone.
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Vook are running another sale this week, and this time around they have 14 titles marked down to $0. I’m glad they’re free because there are a bunch that I don’t think are worth buying. Let me see if I can explain.
There are certain types of books that I don’t believe are worth buying anymore, and the reason is simple. It has gotten too easy to find the same info online. Specifically, if you can find the same usable knowledge (in a given book) by Googling it then the book isn’t worth buying.
Take game guides, for example. Vook are giving away 4 guides this week and I bet you could find most everything in those guides with a brief search of Youtube. What ever you don’t find in Youtube you would very likely find with a brief Google search. In fact, I’d bet that you would find that Youtube has 10 times the amount of usuable info as compared to the Vook ebook.
But the ebooks are free today, so go get them. There are also several workout guides as well as a number of brief history books.
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Amazon have just released another free app for the Kindle.
Jigsaw Words is a cross between a jumble, hangman, and a crossword puzzle. You’re given a set of clues and a set of word fragments. Your goal is to assemble the fragments and solve each clue.
It’s fun, and I’m really glad that the game let me type in the words rather than have to select the fragments. I still don’t like the d-pad.
This is one of about 12 free apps that Amazon released over the last year or so. Like the others, Jigsaw Words will only work on the K2, K3, and Kindle DX.
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This is a satirical book that has been around for quite a few years now, and as of today you can get it free on your Kindle.
Just in case you didn’t know, the joke here is that the print edition is 200 pages long – all of which are blank. I don’t know how long the Kindle edition is, but I do know that sharing is enabled and you can also have this book read to you.
What Every Man Thinks About Apart From Sex (Amazon)
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Each month the University of Chicago Press give away 1 of their titles as an ebook. This month’s free ebook is Spiral Jetta, a journal of one woman’s pursuit of the art of the American landscape.
Erin Hogan hit the road in her Volkswagen Jetta and headed west from Chicago in search of the monuments of American land art: a salty coil of rocks, four hundred stainless steel poles, a gash in a mesa, four concrete tubes, and military sheds filled with cubes. Her journey took her through the states of Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. It also took her through the states of anxiety, drunkenness, disorientation, and heat exhaustion. Spiral Jetta is a chronicle of this journey.
You’ll need to jump through some hoops in order to get the book, so it’s not actually free. It’s also encumbered by DRM, unfortunately.
Click here to visit the UCP website.You’ll need to provide your email address so they can send you a link.
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This was not what I expected to find late on a Saturday night.
I’ve just downloaded Winning the Zero Moment of Truth
Whether we’re shopping for corn flakes, concert tickets or a honeymoon in Paris, the Internet has changed how we decide what to buy. Today we’re all digital explorers, seeking out online ratings, peer reviews, videos, and in-depth product details as we move down the path to purchase.
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If you’re a marketer, a CEO, a sales rep, or an aspiring entrepreneur, this video-enhanced eBook will help you understand this shift in the marketing landscape and show you the strategies it takes to win.
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It was a long time ago, but there was a point where this title was the hot new trend-setting ebook. It was published on 2000, and when it was re;leased as an ebook it caused an unbelievable amount of hoopla.
According to Wikipedia this was Stephen King’s debut ebook. It was downloaded over 400 thousand times in the first 24 hours. Initially it was offered for $2.50 by SoftLock and Simon & Schuster as the world’s first mass-market, but Amazon and B&N gave it away for free. Right now it costs $4 at the Kindle Store.
Piotr of EbookFriendly found this PDF languishing on an abandoned Adobe server. It appears to have been uploaded in 2005, and there’s no sign that anything happened since. You might want to get it quickly; I suspect Adobe will take it down once they learn that it’s there.
Actually, you might want to avoid this PDF; I’m not sure it’s legal. The folder it’s in looks like it may have been used for personal content, not for public use. I’m really only sharing it because I find it funny that this server has been sitting open to the public for the past 6 years.
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I have a hilarious little joke I want to share with you. One of the free ebooks that popped up in the Kindle Store yesterday is a little odd. No, it’s not a crossover between unrelated genres (but you probably guessed that from the title).
The ebook in question appears to be a mistake. It’s about 8MB in size, and the entire contents, so far as I can tell, are naughts. Yes, this ebook contains 8MB worth of zeros.
I’m sure it was activated by accident, but who cares? I consider myself lucky to be able to hear this excellent prose spoken to me by my Kindle. The section right around location 1252 brings tears to my eyes. I seriously think this could be the winner of next year’s Man Booker prize.
Even if it isn’t this is still a captivating book. I wonder if Amazon have sold the movie rights yet?
image by Leo Reynolds
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