A few weeks back Amazon released nice little tool called SendToKindle. fter you installed it on your Windows PC, it gave you the option to right-click on certain files and send them to your Kindle. It’s a neat little tool, but it is also restricted to just Windows. If you’re running Linux or OSX, you’re out of luck.
Until now.
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Amazon decided today to show that not all the interesting gadget news gets announced at CES. They’ve just released a new app you can install on your Windows PC.
SendToKindle acts something like a printer driver, and it lets you select print docs as a PDF and automatically email them to your Kindle account on Amazon.com. You can also right-click on a file while looking at it in a folder and send it to your Kindle account.
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Every time you make a note, highlight a section of text or add a bookmark in a Kindle book, a copy of the annotation is made in the MyClippings.txt file on the Kindle. The text file is a simple record of all annotations made in all books in the Kindle. It serves as a backup of notes and highlights but has limited utility if you’re reading more than one book concurrently, as the notes are organized chronologically. There is no way to re-sort the annotations by book.
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The iPad app is getting support for the new magazines and other periodicals currently found on the Kindle Fire. That’s over 400 titles with new and rich formatting. You can buy a single issue or subscribe and Amazon will automatically deliver them to your gadget.
But wait, there’s more.
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On Monday I posted about the new Kindle Format 8 and how I was pretty sure that the Kindle Fire could already read it. It looks like I was right.
This morning someone left a comment and confirmed my suspicions. Kindle Format 8 is in beta right now and it is being tested by a select group of publishers.
I’ve checked with Amazon about when it will be released to the rest of us, but I never got a response.
My source pointed me at the guidelines for the new format as well as the tools needed to make KF8 ebooks. While I cannot share the tools, I can share a demo file I made. It only displays correctly on the Kindle Fire, but it does work.
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Amazon just started telling everyone that they’re shipping the Kindle Touch a week early, and since my unit is due to arrive in 3 days or so I thought now would be a good time to share a trick I came across a few weeks back.
I was the first to post about how to buy your way out of seeing the ads on the kindle, but my competition turned up an even better method. It’s only been tested on the K4, not the Kindle Touch, but I would expect the trick to work the same on both e-readers.
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Amazon released a new update for the K3 Wifi and K3 3G yesterday. This is definitely one that you shouldn’t wait for. Go get it (here).
The update give the K3 the same Kindle Cloud support that you can find on the K4. Do you know how Amazon save a copy of every ebook you buy from them as well as the attached notes and highlights? Well now you can do that with your personal documents on your K3.
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Do you recall how last month a rumor went around that the Kindle was supposed to get library ebook support some time in September? Guess what: it wasn’t a rumor.
It’s been just over 5 months since Amazon announced that the Kindle would get library ebooks, and it is just about to happen. Unfortunately for us, the system isn’t actually live just yet. It’s in beta at a couple libraries in the Seattle area. It’s not available elsewhere just yet
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Update: Amazon have expanded the beta to include all OverDrive partners in the US. The new service is slowly being rolled out to the 11 thousand participating libraries. I can now see that something like 50 or so libraries support the new service (as of Wednesday at Noon).
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Have you ever tried to browse the web from a Kindle?
If you have, then you probably know that it’s not a pleasant experience and often doesn’t work well. This is a problem that’s been around since the Kindle launched, and for the most part it’s something you live with.
But if you don’t want to put up with it then you’ll need to use some portal service to help you reformat to content. A new one just launched.
Kindalex is a bookmarking service for the Kindle and other wireless enable e-readers. You can also use it to search (Google, Yahoo, etc) for the page you want to read. All the content from the pages is filtered through Kindalex and it strips out the formatting that Kindles usually choke on.
TBH, I don’t usually browse from my Kindle, but I went ahead and bookmarked the site anyway. You never know when it might be handy. It seems to work rather well for a service that is still in beta, but let’s see what happens after everyone tries it all at once.
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