One of the scariest things for a gadget owner is the idea of losing an expensive device. I get upset when I leave a paperback on a plane, so the thought of leaving my Kindle in the seat-back pocket is super stressful. While there’s an Ars Technica article making the rounds about Amazon’s...

It seems with every new generation of technology, there’s a standout product – the iPod, for example – that other companies attempt to recreate. Each of these recreations may be called the “killer” of this new product. We’ve been hearing “iPhone killer”...

In the e-reader race to the top, Sony’s stepping up their game. They announced earlier this month two new e-readers – one pocket-sized and one with a touch screen. PC World has the news that Sony will have a third offering – a Reader Daily edition, priced at $399 and featuring a ....

The Kindle DX will automatically rotate the screen when you rotate your DX, so that up is always up, and you can always read what’s on your screen. (For more about how to use landscape mode, check out our previous post.) What if you don’t want the screen to rotate?  There’s an easy...

One of the important features of the Kindle that Amazon doesn’t seem to place enough emphasis on is its usability. Hand the Kindle to anyone and they can figure out how to navigate it within minutes. One writer has chronicled his mother’s usage of the device on GottaBeMobile.com. He says, She...

The Kindle DX has the ability to be read in landscape mode, meaning you can turn it sideways and the content will rotate.  The screen on the Kindle is set to automatically turn when you’ve rotated your Kindle DX on its side. A mechanism inside the DX is triggered when you’ve physically rotated...

Part of Sony’s big GamesCom announcement today was the release of an e-reader program for their PlayStation Portable video game system. According to entertainment website Cinema Blend, the e-reader on the PSP won’t be a Kindle competitor (or a Sony Reader competitor, for that matter). The...

Yet another celebrity to flaunt their Kindle-owner status on Twitter is racecar driver Danica Patrick. Tonight on Twitter she wrote, “Bought Chelsea Handlers [sic] 1st book (because her second was SOOO funny) on my Kindle yesterday. I love that thing!” Patrick is best known as a woman in...

The first Finder book I read was Paranoia because it was available free for the Kindle, and my husband couldn’t stop raving about it after reading it on his Kindle DX. Immediately after reading Paranoia, we sought out all the Finder books we could get, and saw that Vanished was being published...

One of the most hotly anticipated books of the year – Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol – almost caused a massive headache for Amazon. Kindle customers have been fighting against a price point higher than $9.99 and have also been encouraging Amazon and publishers to release Kindle editions...