After purchasing a Kindle to give as a gift, I did a number of screenshots of the steps necessary to find free books at the Kindle Store and put that into a PDF for the recipient. There are probably a lot of other folks wondering how to find free Kindle books, so I have shared [...]

Amazon has announced that there is a new version of software available for the latest generation of Kindle and Kindle 3G devices – Kindle Software Update Version 3.1 — Early Preview Release. The new version has some nice improvements: Public Notes – you can share your book notes and highlights Real Page Numbers – page [...]

Amazon’s Kindle now has a new feature – the ability for the owner to loan books to a friend! Just a few days ago Amazon launched the Kindle Book Lending feature across its website. Not all books can be loaned, so you need to check to see whether a book is eligible to be loaned. [...]

For a long time I had been wondering what to do with the rewards points accumulating with American Express. Just before Christmas, I learned that Amazon and American Express had established a partnership allowing AMEX cardholders to use their reward points on Amazon. Now we’re cooking with gas! For awhile, I had been thinking about [...]