I’ve just heard over on MobileRead that Amazon have updated the Kindle4Mac reading app. I don’t have a Mac so I cannot confirm this. Here are some of the improvements in the latest update: Use the built-in dictionary to seamlessly look up the definitions of English words without interrupting your reading. Real page numbers for [...]
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Kindle 4 PC has an undocumented feature
March 7th, 2011 · 3 Comments · software news
I found a neat feature over the weekend, and I had to share. It doesn’t work very well and it’s not supposed to be there at all. But it’s still very shiny. The feature I found is a way to embed an audio file in an ebook so it could be read on K4PC. (If [...]
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New update available for Kindle 4 PC
February 12th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Amazon, software news
So Amazon released a new update for the Kindle4PC reading app yesterday. The new version adds support for page numbers, popular highlights, and better touchscreen support on Win7 tablets. The page number idea always struck me as a little silly. If a title comes out in paperback and hardback, which set of page numbers do [...]
Take your child to a Bookstore Day – 4 December
November 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
The banner says it all. Are you going to participate? Take your child to a bookstore Day
Amazon just updated Kindle 4 PC
November 19th, 2010 · No Comments · software news
This tweet just came across the wire. The new version of K4PC is out, and it adds quite a few interesting new features: Use the built-in dictionary to seamlessly look up the definitions of English words without interrupting your reading. Read in the standard one-column mode or take advantage of a larger screen with a [...]
Kindle 4 Mac updated
October 19th, 2010 · No Comments · software news
Amazon just uploaded a new version of Kindle for Mac reading app. They’ve made a number of improvements including supports for notes and highlights (finally). They also added a multi-comlumn reading mode and a new and improved look which, according to Scott McNulty of Macworld: to this blogger’s eye, looks more ‘Mac like’ (I can’t [...]
ePagine add support for 4 more ebookstores to their iOS app
October 18th, 2010 · No Comments · iPhone app, software news
Ereaders.nl are reporting that the ePagine reading app I posted about yesterday now supports buying ebooks from ebook.nl, e-boek.org, Libris and Selexyz. This means that the app now has access to virtually all the Dutch ebooks available. I’m going to have to take his word for it. I have the app and I’m not offered [...]
Did you notice what was missing from the Kindle 4 Android update?
September 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment · opinion
A few days ago Amazon released an updated version of their Kindle app for Android. They added a number of really neat annotation and collaboration features, but there was one in particular that they left out. It’s not that subtle, so I’m surprised that so few noticed. They didn’t add the audio and video support [...]
4 Calif. school districts launch iPad pilot program
September 8th, 2010 · 5 Comments · digital textbooks
From THE Journal: Education publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has launched a new algebra curriculum delivery system for Apple’s iPad. Dubbed “Fuse,” the system is being piloted for a one-year period in middle schools in four California school districts. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt said the Fuse: Holt McDougal Algebra 1 app is the first full-year algebra curriculum [...]
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