Despite rampant speculation about a new Kindle before the holiday season and a bigger Kindle designed for college students to replace their heavy textbooks with, Amazon spokesman Craig Berman confirmed there will not be a new Kindle in 2008. He spoke to The New York Times and said, Don’t believe...

Paul Biba, a former Sony Reader owner and writer for TeleRead.org, recently got a Kindle to replace his broken Sony Reader. He has been enjoying it and says, Changing font sizes is fast. As a matter of fact the whole machine is very fast compared to the Sony. Makes the Sony look like a real slowpoke. He...

There is an excellent thread on the Amazon.com Customer Discussions forum that has become a user-generated Kindle F.A.Q. There are answers to just about every question about the Kindle that you could imagine (including the identity of some of the authors on the screensaver), and if your question hasn’t...

When you put your Kindle in sleep mode, a screensaver appears that can be anything from a Kindle tip or a picture of a classic author. Some Kindle users figured out how to add your own pictures to use as screensavers. The process is explained in great detail here and seems fairly simple. Just copy the...

The Kindle Daily blog (which appears to only be available through the built-in Kindle store on the Kindle) announced that Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels are now available on the Kindle. All of them. As someone who has never read the Bond novels, and only got into the Bond movies with the introduction...

The number of third-party cases available for the Kindle is pretty impressive. This particular one has an interesting twist. Not only is it a nice looking leather case that can hold your Kindle and some SD cards, but it doubles as a Kindle stand to make reading hands-free. Currently there’s only...

One of the wonderful things about the Kindle is the ability to change the font size to your liking. This is useful for several reasons. One, if you’re used to reading large print books. Two, if you forget your reading glasses one day. Three, if you want to make the font small so as to avoid flipping...

This was the first Vonnegut book I read, and I wasn’t prepared for the randomness. He has a wandering kind of writing style, which suited the plot of this book wonderfully. I picked it up originally because it was part of the “Lost” book club. While it’s easy to see where the...

A company called Vizu has an interesting Kindle travel package that includes a soft-cover travel case, a silicone cover for the Kindle itself, and a screen protector. The case is sturdy-looking and comes in black, pink, or blue (You can see the black one at left). The case has a zipper top for the Kindle...

Amazon and Chase are running a promotion on the front page of Amazon.com today (as seen in the screenshot above) where you can save $100 on a new Kindle by signing up for (or using, presumably) the Amazon Visa card. That brings the price down to a very reasonable $259. Click here to get your Kindle...