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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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Kobo iPhone app gets social reading features

February 1st, 2011 · No Comments · software news

Kobo just announced an update to the Kobo iPhone app. The new version will now have all the really neat features  that the iPad got some time back. Chris reviewed the iPad app about a month ago, and I think he wanted to have its baby. Kidding aside, I was really jealous of iPad owners [...]

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Calibre 0.7.43 now available – adds features, fixes bugs, also makes julienne fries

January 28th, 2011 · 4 Comments · software news

Calibre is a free and open source e-book library management app that was developed by users of e-books for users of e-books. It has a bunchaton of features, including: ebook conversion library management e-reader support news downloading content server (for accessing your library over the web) Calibre

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Blio to enter private beta test for accessibility features

October 25th, 2010 · 3 Comments · software news

The Blio folks tweeted this message earlier today: Private Beta of accessible Blio to begin testing 11/15. If you would like the chance 2 participate in testing, DM us your info This is big news, of course, but it brought my attention to another issue. How accessible is Twitter (for the visually disabled)? P.S. If [...]

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New features coming to the Kindle

October 22nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · hardware news

Amazon like to keep us guessing on where they will announce new features. Sometimes they announce on the Kindle blog, and sometimes they announce in the support forum. They posted this in the support forum today: We wanted to let you know about two new features coming soon. First, we are making Kindle newspapers and [...]

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