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Posts Tagged ‘ kindle ’

The First Law Series Going Audible

By Tim
1
July 10, 2009
The First Law Series Going Audible

Today, author Joe Abercrombie announced that his new book, Best Served Cold will be released in the US on the Kindle. I have found the Kindle app on my iPod Touch to be very readable on the largest font setting  and with the inverse color scheme (white text on a black background). Despite this,...
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Accessing the New Kindle DX

By Tim
0
May 6, 2009
Accessing the New Kindle DX

I garnered some First Impressions of the New Kindle DX from the NYTimes’s Gadgetwise Blog. According to the post, the new Kindle DX’s main feature is its larger size. The DX has a 9.7-inch display, which the company says is 2 1/2 times the size of the Kindle 2. But the device doesn’t feel...
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Reading Rights to Protest at the Author’s Guild Today

By Tim
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April 7, 2009

The Reading Rights coalition is organizing a protest today against the restrictions on the new Kindle’s text-to-speech feature. At noon in NYC, you can watch the event online. Please support us by joining our informational picket in front of the Authors Guild’s headquarters at 31 East 32nd Street in downtown Manhattan on April 7, 2009...
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Harvesting a Crop of Electronic Readers @ NYTimes

By Tim
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March 5, 2009

Last week’s tech section reviews the state of e-book readers in A Walk Through a Crop of Electronic Readers. THE release this week of Amazon’s Kindle 2 has put electronic book readers in the spotlight. Its proponents celebrate the ability to store thousands of titles on a single lightweight device; the access to newspapers, magazines...
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Accessing your Kindle on the iPhone

By Tim
4
March 4, 2009
Accessing your Kindle on the iPhone

Spotted today on Slashdot, Amazon Releases iPhone Kindle Software. “The Amazon Kindle 2 just started shipping last week, but Amazon surprised everyone late on March 3rd by placing the Amazon Kindle software for the iPhone in the Apple App Store. With the Whispersync technology you can now keep your Kindle and iPhone ebooks in sync...
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Accessibility @ Amazon: The Kindle, Audible.com & a Chief Accessibility Officer

By Tim
2
March 4, 2009

An Open Letter to Jeff Bezos at Amazon Does Amazon have a Chief Accessibility Officer? Someone who oversees accessibility issues across the company? It does not seem so. With Amazon at the heart of both online shopping and digital books (audio and e-books), you need a strong corporate position on accessibility. Not only is there...
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Petition to Make the Kindle Fully Accessible

By Tim
1
March 3, 2009

A peeition to Make the Kindle 2 Fully Accessible has been started. We, the undersigned, ask Amazon Technologies, Inc., and its affiliates, to modify the new Kindle 2, and add the ability to have all menu choices spoken with voice prompts, so that all blind and sighted individuals may purchase, and make full use of...
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One Small Step Back for Amazon, One Giant Leap Backwards for Access

By Tim
1
February 28, 2009

Today Amazon announced that it was surrendering to the Author’s Guild – Amazon Backs off Text-to-Speech Feature in Kindle – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com. The new Talk To Me feature, a form of text to speech, in Amazon’s Kindle will be disabled at the whim of the publisher. How many publishers will not exercise...
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Kindle sparks a flame war, but fails to light the fire for accessibility – AFB’s Blog

By Tim
0
February 28, 2009

Following up on my rant against the Blount Op-Ed piece, the AFB has a well-written (much better than mine) blog post on the same issue: Kindle sparks a flame war, but fails to light the fire for accessibility – AFB’s Blog. While the Kindle offers text-to-speech options, it doesn’t include talking menus or fully accessible...
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Shortcovers – How Accessible is this Kindle Competitor?

By Tim
0
February 26, 2009
Shortcovers – How Accessible is this Kindle Competitor?

Shortcovers, the alleged Kindle killer, went live this morning. So what is shorcovers? It is a e-book service built around mobile devices. The idea is to read books on your iPhone, your Blackberry or whichever smart phone you might use. Unlike other great e-book software, like Stanza, shortcovers is paired with a commercial bookstore...
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Blount Bluntly Dismisses the Blind on the NYTimes’ Op-Ed Page

By Tim
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February 25, 2009

On today’s Op-Ed page in the New York Times, Roy Blount, Jr, head of the Author’s Guild, has penned a piece, The Kindle Swindle?, defending his organizations attack on the new text to speech (TTS) feature in the new Amazon Kindle 2. Over at O”Reill Media, there is An Open Letter to Roy Blount,...
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Will it Kill the Kindle?

By Tim
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February 14, 2009

http://www.vimeo.com/3192599 Shortcovers will be an app for mobile devices, including the iPhone, that turns your device into an e-book reader. The release date is imminent (allegedly). I still am unconvinced that mobile device screens are big enough for sustained reading. More details when the app arrives. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider...
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