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Kindle 2 Recovery Mode
There is this undocumented feature of recover mode in Kindle 2. I’m posting about it but please don’t mess with it unless you know what are you doing because it can potentially brick your Kindle. K1...
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Airplane Bricked My Kindle 2
Recently I had to take a couple of long trips on airplanes. And supposedly Amazon Kindle is just perfect for such occasions. I stuffed mine with tons of books and even more samples so that I could...
View ArticleKindle Infinite Reboot When Updating
I’ve received several messages from people who try to install an update or a hack (for example Unicode Font Hack) and Kindle enters infinite install update-fail-reboot cycle. Some believe that the...
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Scratched My Kindle 2
Couple of days ago I was rushing to an appointment and withing much thinking stuffed my Kindle 2 in jacket pocket. But I failed to consider the fact that my keys were also in this pocket. Next time I...
View ArticleArizona State University Being Sued For Discrimination Over Use of Kindle DX
Arizona State University is one of six schools of higher education that are planning to deploy the Kindle DX this fall. They are, however, coming under fire from both the National Federation of the...
View ArticleKindle DX crashed in PDF viewer
Looks like I’ve found a bug in Kindle DX PDF viewer: any time I open the second page of this PDF file Kindle DX would go into quick reboot. When it comes out of the reboot all of the items are gone...
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Amazon to Replace Broken Kindles After Lawsuit
Amazon Kindle DX Leather Cover The Kindle is an expensive gadget, so many owners take precautions to protect it. One popular Kindle accessory is Amazon’s own leather cover, which adds a layer of...
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Amazon Deletes George Orwell Books in Orwellian Move
Big Brother Earlier on this blog, George Orwell was featured for Good Kindle Books at a Glance. If you downloaded the Kindle edition of either 1984 or Animal Farm, I hope you have gotten the chance to...
View ArticleUpdate On Amazon Book Deletion
There are two major updates to the story about Amazon deleting George Orwell books from customers’ Kindles. First off, the reasons for the deletion have become more clear. The books were added to the...
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Free Software Foundation is Launching a Kindle Petition
In the wake of the controversy surrounding Amazon’s deletion of George Orwell books the Free Software Foundation is readying a petition against remote deletion and DRM. This news is somewhat...
View ArticleAmazon Book Deletion Leads to Lawsuit
The controversy surrounding Amazon’s deletion of George Orwell Books has now led to a lawsuit against the company. The suit was instigated by a Michigan High School student who was reading 1984 for an...
View ArticleStrange Kindle battery behaviour
Since I’m currently travelling in the UK for more than a month already, I have Wireless turned off on both Kindle 2 and Kindle DX that I have. After a month of moderate reading while Kindle was getting...
View ArticleKindle May Have Newspaper Trouble in Australia
Fairfax Media, one of Australia’s large media companies, has rejected the Kindle and decided to look elsewhere for e-delivery. Even worse for Amazon, this announcement comes on the heels of another...
View ArticleDealing With a Stolen Kindle
Ars Technica has an article about how Amazon deals with stolen Kindles. Apparently, if you contact Amazon about a Kindle that has been stolen, they will de-register your account from the device. What...
View ArticleKindle DX crashed when copying new dictionary file
I’ve come across yet another way to crash Kindle DX: connect it via USB cable to your PC and try copying over a dictionary file. After copying around 2MB of data Kindle drive disconnects from the...
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Kindle 3 Review Follow Up
Kindle 3 Weight I’ve had some time to play around with my new Kindle 3 and to read what other users are saying so now I’m ready to publish this follow up with some of the information I’ve recently...
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Helpful Software Update Tip
My Kindle was experiencing major battery drain, causing me to recharge every 2-3 days. Since my Kindle is almost a year and a half old I thought it might be time for a replacement. So I asked around,...
View ArticleStallman vs Amazon Kindle: Are eBooks Bad?
The idea that print books and the Kindle were in opposition has been around pretty much as long as there’s been a Kindle. In fact, if you go back far enough, you can find people talking about the...
View ArticleKindle Spam Highlights the Worst Side of Easy Self-Publishing
The Kindle has done a lot to bring publishing from fantasy to reality for new authors everywhere. In an industry previously dominated by publishing houses that have a track record of refusing to take...
View ArticleKindle Apps: The Future, or A Flop?
One of the first fun hidden Kindle features that a lot of people were surprised to discover was the hidden Minesweeper game. It is still there, by the way, when you hit Alt-Shift-M on your home screen....
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Are Airport Scanners Making Kindle Carrying Risky?
This time of year travel is anything but rare and chances are good that at some point a delay will have you sitting in an airport with nothing to do. The obvious solution is to bring your Kindle along...
View ArticleKindle Fire Having WiFi Problems
There’s been some trouble since the launch of the Kindle Fire. While responses have been overwhelmingly positive on most fronts, there is a substantial crowd that has been unable to get themselves...
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Will Amazon Unwittingly Destroy the Kindle?
Kindle Touch It’s been clear since early this year that as the Kindle Fire was taking off so impressively, Amazon was experiencing some amount of decreased Kindle eReader interest among its customers....
View ArticleThe Kindle and Tracking: Why Owners Aren’t Outraged
It is practically a given to many people that some amount of what you do on the internet is being tracked. There is occasional outrage over this, such as when even their less tech savvy subscribers...
View ArticleSecurity Flaw Makes Browsing Risky For Kindle Touch Users
The Kindle isn’t ever considered the most secure of devices. Even here on this site you’ll find many hacks for Kindles from the first generation forward. Still, this might be the first time I can...
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