"Kindle" Archives

Blogging a Maine Moment

Posted on 10 July 2010 (0)

Our six guests have returned to Nebraska. The old cottage sighs and settles into the rhythms of a man, woman, and a very small dog. We are all on the same bed on the second floor, listening to the surf and a sultry Pandora mix based on “The Girl from Ipanema.” Fog hides the horizon. [...]

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Travel Rx: iPad AND Kindle on Flight to Denver

Posted on 23 May 2010 (0)

 I’m on a Southwest flight, half way from Boston to Denver. In my “Life Is Good” cloth bag, I’m toting a Kindle 6-inch and the iPad on which I’m drafting this post in the Pages app.  I told Bryan Person last month that if I had to choose between the iPad and the Kindle [...]

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K4K Launched to Provide Kindles for Troops

Posted on 07 March 2010 (6)

Yesterday I launched a project to provide free Kindles for U.S. troops serving in Afghanistan.  I chose Kandahar because of the letter K, but also because it’s the general region where Army Sgt. Andre B. Corbin will serve when he deploys later this month.  He will be toting a new 6-inch Global Wireless Kindle and [...]

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A Sabbatical from Politics Till the Fourth of July

Posted on 31 January 2010 (2)

I have decided to take a five-month break from politics. To some extent, I have Steve Jobs to thank for this decision.  Apple’s handing down of its new tablet on Wednesday has turned the eBook space white hot.  The iPad will have a new iBooks app, a direct attack on the Kindle’s dominance of eBooks.  [...]

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Odds and Ends Toward the End of a Year

Posted on 27 December 2009 (1)

1. Cory Doctorow and Stephen King have hijacked my Kindle with great fiction reads. My pre-ordered copy of King’s Under the Dome arrived, as promised, on Christmas Eve. It’s scary how well he tells a story.  I suspect that I will soon be drawn into a dead run toward the end of the story, even [...]

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