Kindle Tips, Tricks, and News
Ever since I was a kid, I ve remembered the scary story about the Headless Horseman. But tonight I discovered something that I never knew before. I d been reading the free Kindle edition of Washington Irving s The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, a collection of essays and stories that he d published together in 1820. And its very [ ]
Over the holidays I always like to think about people who ve been with us over the years and I remember watching David Letterman all the way back in the 1980s! But 2015 was the year he finally retired from his long-running late-night talk show. So I wanted to take a moment to remember a [ ]
Every year on New Year s Day, I assemble a master list of shortcuts to over 100 of the most useful pages for Kindle owners, like all of the free ebooks, games, and comic books that Amazon s now making available. But this year there s 10 new links that highlight some fun new content that in 2015 [ ]
Here s four of my all-time favorite free holiday stories. (Maybe reading on the Kindle can become a new Christmas tradition!) These stories are all available as a free ebooks, on the Kindle (or on Project Gutenberg). And at least one of them has been around for almost 200 years! Old Christmas by Washington Irving He [ ]
Here s a special free holiday treat from Amazon. If you own a black-and-white Kindle, Amazon s already released 18 different free games. And for Christmas a couple years ago, they also released one that was specifically designed for the holiday season We were going to wait to start talking about the holidays, but this new free [ ]
A funny thing happened when I bought Mystery Science Theatre 3000: Santa Claus. Amazon gave me a dollar! Purchase or Rent a Movie or TV Show from Amazon Instant Video, Get a $1 Digital Music Credit, reads the special web page at Amazon.com. And the second I d bought my video, Amazon sent me an e-mail [ ]
I m trying to get into holiday spirit and I was really touched by a story about a stroke victim who was re-learning how to read using a Kindle 61-year-old Tom Calteux was a former photo editor at a Milwaukee newspaper, but at the age of 49 12 years ago the stroke took [ ]
One very special Thanksgiving, I decided to write a funny ebook about turkeys. And this week, I ve decided to share it with all of my readers for free. Just point your computer s web browser to this web page and Amazon will send it to your Kindle at no charge. And if you read it on [ ]
Thanksgiving s almost here! If you re traveling for the holiday or just have some extra time to relax I ve picked out a few Thanksgiving-related ebooks. With all the excitement around the upcoming holidays, I m already feeling grateful that I ll finally get some time to read on my Kindle! Here s some of the best Thanksgiving [ ]
I have a special holiday tradition. Each year on Halloween, I creep up on the Kindle Store, and take a peek at just how many zombie titles have crawled out into the marketplace. On Halloween night in 2011, there were just 2,269 Kindle ebooks with their word zombie in their title, but by 2012, that [ ]