Kindle Touch gets a Sodoku puzzle book debuting Touch/Write technology

SUDOKU'S UNBOUND #3 PUZZLE FOR KINDLE AVAILABLE WITH TOUCH/WRITE TECHNOLOGY

That's write! right! This is the first puzzle, available exclusively on Kindle Touch, that allows entry of numbers on an e-Ink device by writing with your finger.

As you can see in the second image above:

' You can write small or large numbers, whichever you find easier.
  If you write small numbers (about the size of a puzzle cell), the number will go into the cell that you write in.  If you write large numbers, the number will go into the cell that you start writing in. '

As GeekWire's Todd Bishop put it, it's the debut of handwriting recognition in Puzzazz's newest puzzle book, Sudoku Unbound Volume 3, which is selling for $2.99, the same price as the other Puzzazz puzzles in the "Sodoku Unbound" series.

Unlike some handwriting-recognition in the past, such as that used in the Palm Pilot in 1996 when most gave up trying to get the Palm grafitti to work, Puzzazz's technology is smarter and more flexible.

  The user doesn't have to learn a special way of writing, as it recognizes many styles of writing numbers and letters, due to Puzzazz' using a large base of handwriting samples while developing the capability.

Will Amazon want to make it a basic feature of the Kindle Touch?  No one is saying.

Bishop was able to try TouchWrite and says "it worked reliably... the technology recognizes the number written invisibly on the screen, then places the digital version in the corresponding cell on the page of the puzzle book."

  Bishop also points out that the Kindle Touch is Amazon's top selling e-Ink reader at $99 for the ad-supported version (which doesn't have the 3G-cell phone network access feature).



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Kindle Tips: Kindle Fire Books that Seem to Disappear - Solution to Glitch

THE KINDLE BOOKS APP ON KINDLE FIRE HAS A GLITCH THAT CAN CAUSE BOOK TITLES TO NOT DISPLAY -- THE SOLUTION

  This dilemma of Kindle book titles seeming to disappear from Kindle Fire listings of book titles on The Cloud especially (the server library area) and also from the listing for the Device has been happening to more than a few, per reports from the forums -- and it happened to me twice in a few days.

  Forum members, as usual (in this case, 'Q' and 'Mona') came up with the answer a few weeks ago, and more and more of us are needing to use their solution.  The problem seems to have started or worsened after the last Kindle Fire upgrade.

  I think it's important that all of Amazon Kindle Support be told about this solution, because I was told by two members of Amazon Kindle Support to set my KFire back to Factory Defaults (as a 2nd or 3rd step!) which would have lost me the personal documents I had on the device.  I told them I would NOT do that, as it has always been a last-ditch step when nothing else solves the problem and that it causes more unnecessary work for customers when there is a simpler solution.

  Later we were reminded by 'affinity" on the forum that Q and Mona had provided the simple solution, and it worked like a charm for me and for MANY others on the forums.

  I called Amazon Kindle Support back to let them know there was a simple solution and this time (when I asked to be connected back with 2nd level support as before), I got Kindle Customer Support representative Ryan.   He knew about this glitch and the workaround (and started to tell me what it was before I could tell him what forumners were doing) and was surprised that other areas of Customer Support apparently did not know about it, but he said himself that the 'factory default' settings was a FINAL step that shouldn't be taken until other steps proved not to work.

 Amazon, Ryan is a prize.  I wish I could talk directly to him whenever I have questions.  It'd be nice to have someone like him in charge of letting all of Kindle Customer Support know what the latest known glitches and workarounds are.  It would help situations like the one in which one of the two free-book-forum-thread leaders was told to go back to factory defaults and then had to gather (from her computer and Amazon's servers) the personal documents that were of course 'gone' when going back to 'factory' defaults.

For the future, here is, essentially, what Q and Mona discovered.

The first clue that something is amiss is that the Cloud listing doesn't show all your books, but the Amazon servers -will- have them there.  The servers and our libraries on the servers are the 'Cloud.'

  One may or may not be able to access the Cloud directly from the Kindle Fire - doable with music and books and not doable with personal docs (at this time).

  I'll do a blog entry later on the several types of storage (and sometimes streaming) that are referred to as the Cloud, at Amazon.

When the problem with the Kindle Fire that I'm writing about occurs, our books-app "Amazon Kindle Books" is not "seeing" all the titles that are on the Cloud (our personal server library where our Kindle books are kept by Amazon) due to a software glitch that is in the Kindle App on the Kindle Fire.  Some book titles MAY be missing from the 'Device' display (the Kindle Fire itself) also.

  Mona and Q discovered that to correct this software glitch -- you should make sure that "WiFi" is ON and then go to the Gear or wheel icon at the top right of the Kindle Fire and tap that, and then choose "More" -- then go down the Settings list a bit to see "Applications" and select "ALL Applications."  Once there, you can actually select the Amazon Kindle app to be managed in this way when there is a problem.

The Steps: (a clearer way to see them)

Make sure WiFi is 'ON' when doing this)

Go to the Gear wheel at the top right when you're at the HOME Screen

Then click on:
. More,
. Settings,
. Applications
... (choosing ALL applications to view),

Select 'Amazon Kindle' and then
. Click to option to clear DATA (which clears the cache at the same time)
. Press Home at bottom left

SIT BACK (as Mona says) as it all returns to The Way It Was. :-)

No restart needed.  No need to remove the app.  No Factory Default setting involved (and never should the latter be chosen unless nothing else has worked.)

The Kindle Fire then rebuilds the Cloud and "Device" library information, and it doesn't take that long.

Always back up personal docs (as opposed to Kindle books) onto your computers.

NOWadays, we can send those personal documents to our Kindle via email addressed to the Kindle (see earlier articles cited at the bottom of this post), and Amazon will back those up for us, since they give us 5 free gigs of space for personal docs on their servers now (in addition to the 5 gigs for ALL Amazon customers for personal data in general) and they even sync those personal docs across devices too, as long as you send them to your Kindle in email across the Net, which gives them permission to store these for you.

Thanks again to Q and Mona for the steps that have helped several of us.


EARLIER ARTICLES ON PERSONAL DOCUMENTS

• How to send documents to your Kindle
• How to send WORD docs to your Kindle
• How to use Amazon's own SendtoKindle for PC
    This last one, however, results in a PDF file, which is not very readable at all on a 6" Kindle.
      Added Note
      The Amazon SendtoKindle for PC feature is different from other tools previously discussed (below):
    . sendtoreader
    . the Google Chrome add-on, sendtokindle
    . the original, Instapaper.
  
    These last three 3rd-party web-to-Kindle tools are helpful in other ways, mainly for sending documents from web pages without ads included, to your Kindle.
  

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UK: Kindle Basic, NoTouch - £89 Kindle Touch WiFi, UK - £109 Kindle Touch 3G/WiFi, UK - £169 Kindle Keyboard 3G, UK - £149   Keybd: w/ Free, slow 3G WEB

OTHER International Kindle NoTouch Basic - $109 Kindle Touch WiFi - $139 Kindle Touch 3G/WiFi - $189 Kindle Keybd 3G - $189   Keybd: w/ Free, slow 3G WEB

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Free Kindle books Sat. Feb 11 -- 232 chosen by forum members from 500+ listed .

FREE KINDLE BOOKS from Joyce and Annie B's daily forum threads of free Kindle book alerts and forumner recommendations.

500+ newly and temporarily free Kindle books for Sat., 2/11/12.
232 suggestions for consideration, in listings by forum members
  plus a link to 4 more forum pages of them.

I'll be drawing attention to the Kindle forum members' recommendations, which are done daily, and this will let you know where to find them. I plan to do that when there's time.
  Some of these are free for only a few hours or a few days, others maybe two weeks.

 Double-check the prices always.


THIS BLOG ARTICLE CONSISTS OF LISTS OF BOOKS SELECTED BY FORUM MEMBERS for themselves and posted so that others can see what was found to be interesting to them, out of over 500+ book titles.

  Lists by forum members are compiled from the several forum postings they make while plowing through the titles -- All their recommendations are listed together under their forum names so we can easily see sets by each in these public forum threads.
  I also include some of the duplicated picks, as they give a sense of what strikes people in general, as worth picking up.
 If a book is free for only ONE day and is no longer free, let me know and I'll strike it off the list for today.

  Listing-types and some genre identification
If you can see that some forum members choose the types of books you like, that'll help, and if you can see that any choose the types of books you may not find as interesting, that should help too!

  Many also specify the genre involved, which is very helpful.
  This approach has been useful for some readers, when I have the time to do them.
  Kindle-Edition subscribers (thank you for the support) should use their computers at the web page to use these links, at Link: kindleworld.blogspot.com

  MORE... ( If you are reading this from the main blog page, the links and discussion of temporarily newly-free books and discounted-book forum-alerts link(s) are on the 2nd page, to load the main page more quickly and so that those wanting to go through the details can do so by: Clicking on "MORE" just below)
*****

Again, some are free for only a few hours, some for a day or 5, so double-check each one for price. (Watch out for 'Prime' $0.00 price for *borrowing* as it looks like a purchase price and is bigger than the normal pricing, which of course as confused people.)

By AnnieB
My 1-clicks for today.
1. Scream Catcher mystery
2. The Gathering Storm: The truth can set you free. It can also kill you. (Legacy Series)
3. Sleep Tight mystery
4. Lame Excuses southern humor/family

By membe
Jackhammered
First Aid For Your Menopause Emotions
Memoirs of an Angry Man
Wild Grass (Memories of a Colonial Boy)

Let Sleeping Lions Lie....
200 Chinese Proverbs

By F. Walliczek
My picks for today (non-fiction):
Breast Cancer Awareness, Signs and Symptoms: an important topic
How to Ask for a Raise After Taking a 2-Hour Lunch (I hope it works! ;-)
Aphrodisiacs - A Valentine's Day Special (I hope this one works, too ;-)
I Am Your Mother (a picture book of animal mothers and babies) so cuuuute...
Easy Chocolate Fondue Recipes for Entertaining hmmmm, chocolate fondue!

By Navy Mom
Be Mine (The Corny Myers Series)
Devil's Food (A Loretta Kovacs thriller)
The Mirror In The Garden
Love Comes for Valentine's Day (The Mobile Mistletoe Series)

By Danielle50
My selections
Scream Catcher
Puddle of Love
The Flight Attendant

By Grandma
eReaderiq has 12+ pages of new offerings this morning. I was surprised that I found so little of it actually of interest. For those of you following the Stolen Cookbooks & Other Scams thread, keep your eyes out for a couple by Nathan Murphy this morning.
Make Fantastic and Unique Chocolate Desserts for the Holidays or Special Occasions is on offer today along with one other of his.
  Something about it made me take a look at his author page - 10 books on one of the biggest disparities of subject matter I've seen
Meeting Seniors in All the Right Places_ Have the Time of Your Life While Improving Your Physical and Mental Health, The Knee Bible_ Pain, Injuries, Recovery, Support, and Treatment - Stop Suffering and DO Something and so on . . . seemed strange to me.
  . Sweets For Your Sweet. Review just went live.

By Denise Long
my picks:
Legends of London - Abridged Edition (The Legends Collection)
Rise of the Red Dragon (Tales of the Lorekeepers)
OVERCOMING MY PAST, CLAIMING MY VICTORY
Montfort The Founder of Parliament The Early Years 1229 to 1243

By Reader
Low Carb Low Fat Breakfast & Snacks Interactive TOC
Pandora Park Childrens (Piers Anthony - I couldn't resist)
Die Laughing (Blue Moon Detectives) (might be fun)
The Bashful Vampire Murder & Comic Book Murders (Frank Callahan Mysteries) (might be fun)
Rougarou Horror/Paranormal
I read Sleep Tight lastt September and recommend it.

By Nospin
My selections:
Jackhammered
Sleep Tight
For those who choose Die Laughing, Basement Blues is also available dealing with the same character.
Humorous mystery from last list posted
What's a Girl Gotta Do (Robin Hudson Mysteries)

By mom of 3
Here are my one click picks for mystery/thriller:
Eye of The Destroyer (A Jack Kilbourne Adventure)
Scream Catcher
Family Plot
Gerard: Le Garçon Vampire
SETUP ON FRONT STREET (Key West Nocturnes series)
A DANGEROUS HARBOR
River Rising
Waypoint (Waypoint series)
Death Has a Name
Rougarou
The Little Rock Messenger
Sleep Tight
The Gathering Storm: The truth can set you free. It can also kill you. (Legacy Series)
Life's Punishing Path (A James Anthony Fratino Series, #2)
CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR... ((THE WISHES CHRONICLES, #1))

mystery / thriller cont.
Ionshaker (Suspense thriller)
Puddle of Love
Under the Sun
NATIVE TEXAN
The Race
Frequency
Winter Prey
A Sorrow Beyond Tears (Angel Without A Soul)
Direct Flight to Murder
Wolf TicketsCommon Ground (The Common Ground Trilogy)
Devil's Food (A Loretta Kovacs thriller)
Raw Vengeance (The Rich Fordham Series)
The Lazarus File

Romance:
Red MagicHearts Unfold
Tales Out Of School
The Haunting of Isola Forte di Lorenzo
Under The Desert Moon
Railroad Man
Don't Tell the Moon
Finding Juliet
Naked in Knightsbridge
Parched, A Paranormal Romance (Parched, book 1)
Love Changes
Secrets and Keys (Desire)
Midsummer Eve at Rookery End
Something Between

Children's
My Pet Turtle Makes a New Friend (A picture book for young children)
Why Owls are The Wisest Birds (The Why Series)
Tales From The Beehive - The Tale Of Bee Ware (Childrens Picture Book)
Adorable Animals: A Book About Love
When I Grow Up
Happy Faces! 1-2-3: A Counting Book for Babies
Mozarte's Daily Adventures
Love You Back!
Animals:Animales | English Spanish Animals
Rhyme upon a time 2

By P Chaney
Strange, the finger just didn't 1-Click this morning like it usually does.
Delicious Cake Mix Brownies & Bars! (Delicious Cake Mix Desserts!)
Marriage In Name Only

By MaeflowerThese are a few I picked up.
Tales Out Of School romance
MALAIKA Literary
Whispers from the Heart: A Novel (Journals from the Heart) Contemporary
Hearts Unfold romance

By isanythingopen
Lots to choose from for the 10+ group.
Kids/YA
The Lost Prince (Tales of the Fabled Lands) (fantasy)
The Eternal Well (The Changeling Saga) (fantasy)
The Last Star (fantasy)
Rebel Rider (historical fiction)
The Highland King (historical fiction, scotland)
Suddenly One Spring (historical fiction)
Lesson of the White Eagle (native american)
The Mummy's Tomb (Brock Ford Adventures) (adventure)
Legends and Heroes: the Tale of the Taskmaster (action, alt. reality)
Under the Stars (action) Andromeda's Moon (sci fi? mystery)
The Discovery of Mars Magellan - A Classic Science Fiction novel about a boy found in Space. (sci fi adventure, future)
Wicked Hungry (werewolves (fairly certain) )
The Key To Ghost World  (alt dimension, ghosts)
Mystery of the 51st Star (Taylor Kelsey, Mystery 4) (mystery)
Anarchist Farm (political? society?)

Fantasy
The Dhampire
Rise of the Red Dragon (Tales of the Lorekeepers)
Keep Mama Dead (zombies for those who collect)
The Demigod Proving (The World Quake Cycle)
Tower of Bones
Vengeance of the Ghost - Book 3: Lord of Chaos Trilogy (all 3 appear to be free today)
Chasing Power (Hidden Talents)
The Afternet

Historical
Shadowland
Daughter of the Night

By A
CLASSROOM ON THE WEB: Science Tutorials and Games for Grades K-12
Here's to Not Catching Our Hair on Fire: An Absent-Minded Tale of Life with Giftedness and   Attention Deficit - Oh Look! A Chicken!
Another from the drawing series:
Drawing Mentor 3, Perspective and 3D Shapes
And another of Sharon L. Reddy's novels:
The Survival of Cade (Pilots Group)

By babel
I took my time browsing kinlib this morning but only came up with 5.  There were a couple of others that looked promising at first glance, but the proofreading errors in the "look inside" were too off-putting; I was afraid I'd be gnashing my teeth the whole time reading.

Pandora Park - children's adventure - by Piers Anthony - Mark in N.Y and Kelsie in China both discover a mysterious path leading to a magical forest.
Puddle of Love - suspense - Jesse Wallace's dilemma is that he knows too much; he knows all the deepest, darkest secrets in the little town of Briley. But he can't say a single word at all, because he's dead, and he's stuck on the other side.
Shadowland - fantasy - On the night of midwinter's eve, a storyteller takes his listeners back to the Dark Ages and a tale from his youth.
The Hell Screen (A Sugawara Akitada Novel) - historical mystery - Set in 11th-century Japan and featuring government official and sometime-detective Akitada Sugawara.
The Prisoners of Gender - romance - A princess and her guardian exchange bodies due to a botched magic enchantment. (I must confess "bawdy, spicy romance" in the prod. descr. caught my eye...)

By RSP
Shadowland
Scream Catcher
The Gathering Storm: The truth can set you free. It can also kill you. (Legacy Series)
Montfort The Founder of Parliament The Early Years 1229 to 1243
Pharaoh's Son
The Highland King

By AuntOh
Here are some of my picks (I did pick up a couple of the other mysteries already listed). An embarrassment of riches, lol!
The Fall of the Haunted City (Stitch) (previous book was free yesterday & still free today!
The Bone Blade Girl (Stitch))
Winter Prey (horror/mystery)
Pharaoh's Son (hist. mystery)
Tower of Bones (fantasy)
Sleep Tight (mystery - anne frasier fans)
River Rising (thriller)
Montfort The Founder of Parliament The Early Years 1229 to 1243 (hist fiction)
Convergence (time travel?)
Keep Mama Dead (fantasy/horror/zombies)

By angelmum3
Railroad Man Mickey's job with the railroad is the best gig going in north Georgia in 1933. He's tall, dark, and handsome and has it made in the shade. Mickey found his true love at an early age and dreams of the perfect life they will share. He roams the speakeasies and clip joints of Atlanta, looking snazzy and ready for some action. The women call him Killer. He seeks the exotic creatures of the city and the wonders they hold. Forty-five years later, Mick wonders what happened. (I also liked the reviewer who is a verified purchaser, and my grandfather was a railroad man)

Olga - A Daughter's Tale A new author's first book written as the result of genealogical research into her mother's past and her family. Based on a true story 'Olga - A Daughter's Tale' is a family saga about love, heritage, culture, identity and belonging with an epic feel - from Jamaica to England amidst World War II.Written in the form of diary entries and letters, it is about the cruelty, revenge and jealousy inflicted on an innocent young woman and about her moral courage, dignity, resilience and, in particular, love. It is the story of a remarkable woman who, because of circumstances, made a choice which resulted in her losing contact with her beloved family in Jamaica until nearly half a century later when her daughter discovered her mother's past (this has 23 reviews in 4* or 5* It is reminding me of the TV show - "Who Do You Think You Are? NBC show celebrities go thru their genealogy)

Stranger Riding By  Who wanted Westerns? This appears to be a short story The review says "Carol Buchanan's story of a little boy's suspicion of a stranger who visits his home is definitely one to remember. Little did he or his mother know that the man who stopped for a meal was Harry Longabaugh, the Sundance Kid. (The boy was Carol Buchanan's father.) The author's lyrical prose makes the reader want more."

Montfort The Founder of Parliament The Early Years 1229 to 1243  Again 14 reviews (and a paperback version) helps make this history book intriguing to me! Simon de Montfort, the founder of England's Parliament, was the greatest knight and foremost military strategist of his time. Friend of Saint Louis, thorn in the side of the Plantagenets, he was chosen Viceroy by Prince Richard's crusaders and the Christian lords of Palestine. He served as Senechal of France for King Louis' heir, but rejected the Crown of England, championing instead the New Millennium of democracy preached by Dominican and Franciscan friars
(warning this is 1st in a series? looking under at the customers who bought this also bought, and there are 3 other Montfort books, this is the only one free - and who knows for how long)

Here's to Not Catching Our Hair on Fire: An Absent-Minded Tale of Life with Giftedness and Attention Deficit - Oh Look! A Chicken! This author seems to have quite a blog following - (paperback version also) "Did you know that if you forget to pay a speeding ticket you WILL get arrested-in front of your kids, the neighbors-the dog-and anyone else who happens to be there? True story. And the thing is, Stacey Turis has a million of them, and she imparts these and other nuggets of wisdom to offer others suffering from ADHD some hope in knowing that they are not alone."

Constitution AL Here's a Children's history/fiction book that sounds cute - Ever wonder what really happened at the Constitutional Convention? Join Aloisius Spider and his friends (the Snail, Earthworm, Grasshopper, etc.) as they battle the sinister Triple Alliance. Their foe's intention is to sabotage the Convention -- and end democracy in America! (our school does unit on the Constitutional Convention - trying to get kids to understand what life must've been like... this may bring more humor, and open more doors to other conversation, and kick start some writing as well!)

Montfort The Founder of Parliament The Early Years 1229 to 1243 - went and clicked on the 1* review - had 8 comments - worth the read! ;-)

By Sweet Diva Reader Marla
The Pariah
Scream Catcher
Chains of the Past
The Fun Things to Do in Chicago Guide: An informative Chicago travel guide highlighting great parks, attractions, and restaurants (Some day I plan to visit here)
Morgan Burdett 'BITE THE BULLET' - A Classic Fast Paced Crime Fiction Novel - CAUTION not suitable for under 18's
The Horizontal Split
Summer of Firefly Memories
The Grimoire (The Greenwillow Chronicles)
The Little Rock Messenger
NewYorican

First 10. Got to book #126 before I found soon to be #11.

Puddle of Love
The Bashful Vampire Murder & Comic Book Murders (Frank Callahan Mysteries) (I'd picked up The DVD murders free on Feb 4, 2012 book #1)
More Confessions of a Bookseller (I'd picked up book 1 Confessions of a Bookseller for $.99 at some point)
Devil's Food (A Loretta Kovacs thriller)
Hell Hath No Fury...
Shadowland
A Twist of Fate
The Armchair Detective On Holiday
Pandora Park
Hell in Heels (Hell Bent and Bound: Helena's Story)

10 more took me as far as kinlib book #250 before I found another.

Starting with kinlib book #251:
Vampires Aren't Pretty
House of Flesh
Family Plot
A DANGEROUS HARBOR
CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR... ((THE WISHES CHRONICLES, #1))
Somewhere Never Traveled (The Weavers Story)
Low Carb Southern Country Cooking Recipes (Slap Yo Momma Southern Cooking)
Mourning In Hochington Vol. 1
Everything Changes (Willowbrook Saga)
Harry Putter and the Chamber of Cheesecakes
Sunset Strip: A Shot of Modern Noir
Valentine Stories That Make You Scream: Horror Stories (Serena Blood Holiday Horror Series)
Basement Blues (This is Blue Moon Detectives #1, still free today)
Die Laughing (Blue Moon Detectives)
Four Minutes Past Midnight - True tales of the supernatural
What If the Hokey Pokey Really Is What It's All About?
Legends of London - Abridged Edition (The Legends Collection)
What's a Girl Gotta Do (Robin Hudson Mysteries)
Common Ground (The Common Ground Trilogy)


By Addicted to Kindle
Gun Sex
Scream Catcher mystery (it is based in Lake George, NY...)
I Am Your Mother (a picture book of animal mothers and babies) (children)
Morgan Burdett 'BITE THE BULLET' - A Classic Fast Paced Crime Fiction Novel - CAUTION not suitable for under 18's mystery
Happy Faces! 1-2-3: A Counting Book for Babies childrens
The Adventure's Of Angus The Mouse childrens
Puddle of Love suspense
A Sorrow Beyond Tears (Angel Without A Soul) mystery
The Gathering Storm: The truth can set you free. It can also kill you. (Legacy Series) suspense
The Gathering short story / prequel to a seriesMy Pet Turtle Makes a New Friend (A picture book for young children) childrens
Devil's Food (A Loretta Kovacs thriller) mystery
How the Bee Got Its Stinger (A Funny Children's Picture Book Story) childrens
River Rising suspense
A Twist of Fate contemporary fiction
NATIVE TEXAN mystery (written in 1981 according to discription)
Pandora Park science ficton, fantasy, magic (not normally my genre, but another with location close to home)
House of Flesh literary fiction
Life's Punishing Path (A James Anthony Fratino Series, #2) mystery
More to come - I'm only at 254 on kinlib.

Family Plot suspense
A DANGEROUS HARBOR mystery
The Alestrion Chronicles: Slaves Redeemed adventure
Unique Homemade Christmas Gifts Ideas With Easy Christmas Cookie Recipes cookies
CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR... ((THE WISHES CHRONICLES, #1)) romance / thriller
Direct Flight to Murder mystery
Quick Cooking: Volume 4 - Dinner - 20 Delicious Dinners Ready in 30 Minutes or Less cookbook
Rougarou mystery
Tales From The Beehive - The Tale Of Bee Ware (Childrens Picture Book) childrens (make sure you pick the 0.00 one - I see there is more than one out there)
Wolf Tickets mystery
Beariel the Little Furmaid (Children's Fairy Tale Story Perfect for Bedtime & Young Readers) childrens
Stealing Kevin's Heart romance
Easy Chocolate Fondue Recipes for Entertaining I love the Melting Pot so it would be great to do this at home (and cheaper lol)
Eye of The Destroyer (A Jack Kilbourne Adventure) suspense

By Lia Fairchild (Author of In Search of Lucy
...two that are definitely worth getting
Sacred Secrets, A Jacody Ives Mystery (Jacody Ives Mysteries)
A Time To Heal

I STOPPED THERE, as I was on Message Thread page 3 only and there are 7
pages of suggestions, and many tend to be duplicates after 200+ listed.

I've sifted out and gathered several sublistings under each name for who made them and there are over 230 book titles included here (a few are duplicates)

To continue on with the forum thread directly (pjf starts several listings at that point), go to kfree0211 to get the other 4 pages of forumners listing what they felt looked interesting.

There is enough here that I won't go do a link for Discounted books today.

But there is always the Kindle Daily Deal for the day, so check that out.



Kindle Touch 3G, US-only   Kindle Touch WiFi (US)   Kindle Touch WiFi-Only, outside US    Kindle Basic   (UK: KBasic)   Kindle Fire
Kindle Keybd 3G   (UK: Kindle Keybd 3G)   K3 Special Offers   K3-3G Special Offers   DX

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Kindle for Android app v3.40.156 gets Real Page Numbers now. Also, info on how Page Numbers and Skip-to-Next/Prev Chapter features work, for each Kindle model

Kindle for Android App Software Update Version 3.40.156 now has real page numbers.

So, can the Android-based Kindle Fire app update to add real page numbers be far behind?

Other benefits of the Kindle for Android app update include greatly reduced size of the app and some bug fixes.  The photo comes from the Android Market site.  Here's Amazon's own page for the download and for additional information on the update.

 Interestingly (sort of), the Android Market customers have a much more favorable view on the app, with 51,733 giving it 5 stars and 14,691 giving it 4 stars. 6,115 aren't keen on it.  Amazon customers reviewing this Android app give it 195 5-star ratings, 52 4-star ones, and 102 give it 1 star.  That's a huge difference and I'm wondering why.  Please chime in if you have any ideas.

  I have a Samsung Galaxy S2 Android phone and a Samsung 10.1 Galaxy Tab, and the update works fine on both.  Yet I've seen comments from many at Android-focused websites who of course have very varying Android devices, who've posted that their phones or tablets, including the new Samsung Nexus phones using 'Ice Cream Sandwich" (ICS) operating system, have had some odd results.


Which KINDLE BOOKS have Page numbers rather than just Location numbers?
  Real page numbers are included in Kindle books for which the publisher and Amazon have processed page numbers to match those of a given print version (release date, edition, hardcover, or paperback, etc.)

  Amazon has been adding these, since February 2011, to "tens of thousands of Kindle books, including the top 100 bestselling books in the Kindle Store that have matching print editions and to thousands more of the most popular books"

  So far, Amazon does this only if there are matching print versions so that these can be aligned for classwork (which can be cited) or for bookclubs with mixed types of books and ebooks for easier matching-page access.  Other e-reader sometimes include page numbers that are not for the purpose of matching any other books but just to give a "#1 of #123 pages" for an e-book.


How do you find page number information on the various Kindle devices?
  1.  A light press of the top center edge of the screen for an open book on a Kindle Touch will show, at the bottom of the screen, any included Real Page number and Percentage of the book read, at that point.

  2.  On Kindle Keyboard models (UK: K3) and Kindle 2 and the $79 Kindle Basic NoTouch/NoKeyboard model, you press Menu button to get Page number information (if the Kindle book includes that) shown at the bottom of the screen as well as a progress bar.

  3.  On the Kindle Fire, there is no Page Number feature yet.


Little-known chapter-markings feature
  1.  On Kindle Keyboard models, you will usually also see the Percentage-read progress bar at the bottom of the screen, with the percentage indicated at the left.

  If the publisher HAS used the option to add chapter-markers, you'll see vertical markings on the reading-progress bar and a small downward-pointing arrowhead which shows where you were when you started that session and, in addition, the solid line which shows completion so far will show you how much further you need to read, relatively speaking, to get TO the next chapter or to the end of the book.

  From the User's Guide for Kindles with Keyboard:

' To go to the next or previous chapter, press the right (>) or left (<) button on the 5-way controller. '

  And when you want to retrace your steps (but not go to previous page), the "Back" button is the way to go.

  2.  On Kindle Touch models, the bottom of the screen of any open book will show the Location number at the left and Percentage-read at the right.

  Lightly press the top center at the edge of the screen and you'll get the Menu button as well as several other options shown.
  At the very bottom, you'll see "Page [x] of [xxx]" added.

  There is no progress bar shown on the bottom row of the Touch models because if there IS direct access to each chapter, you get them by just "swiping" UP to get the next chapter and swiping DOWN to get the previous chapter.

  Unfortunately, publishers don't use the Chapter-Access feature as often as they should.

  3.  On the Kindle Fire, you lightly press the top center at the edge of the screen and the orange Progress bar plus Location numbers and Percentage read will display.

  Again, there are NO Page numbers for the Kindle Fire book app yet, and NO way to get directly to the beginning of the next or previous chapters.

  Amazon's KFire is getting TWICE the amount* of downloads at USA Today over ALL other Android devices.  You'd think Kindle Fire customers would get this feature before the general Android app users.  But, juggling software development scheduling for various models and apps is never an easy thing.   Still ... hmmm.

  * Business Insider's headline: "A Leak From The USA TODAY shows
    How The Kindle Fire Is Blowing Away Other Android Tablets"


So Many Vays
Have you noticed that blog entries to explain how a feature or a related feature works on a Kindle is now a quite complicated task when there are so many different models co-existing?  Choice is good, but it takes longer to do a blog entry these days when going into detail on how to do things on the various models.

  If that sounds as if I'm explaining lag time between entries, that's true :-)  because researching news and news-comment areas, user guides, doing tests, and getting other forum-customer experiences in addition to trading info on the forums really does take a lot of time not shown on the blog.  Am hoping Kindle-Edition subscribers understand.



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Kindle News 2/9 - Penguin Quits OverDrive & public libraries. Update

PENGUIN GROUP TERMINATES ITS CONTRACT WITH OVERDRIVE

Michael Kelly, Editor, News for Library Journal, wrote in The Digital Shift that Penguin Group "has extricated itself from its contract with OverDrive, the primary supplier of ebooks to public libraries."

As of February 10, Penguin, will no longer offer any [more] ebooks or audiobooks through OverDrive.  In the prepared statement by Penguin Group's Erica Glass, they say they're continuing to discuss future plans "for ebook and digital audiobook availability for library lending with a number of partners providing these services."

You have to love how people treat contracts these days when they want out.   Kelley writes that Penguin is negotiating a “continuance agreement” with OverDrive, which would allow libraries that have Penguin ebooks in their catalog to continue to have access to those titles.  This is similar to what they did when they quietly removed library-lending access to Kindle books briefly last November.

3M is the big contender, Kelley says, but he describes 3M as "the still fledgling but growing competitor to Overdrive," which means Penguin has essentially shut down public library access to additional Penguin ebook titles.  New physical paper-bound titles will still be available. The Big6 publishing houses fear the effect of e-books, in general, on the 'value' of its hardcopy books.

OverDrive, which hasn't commented yet, sent the following email to its partners via a posting at InfoDocket.

' Starting tomorrow (February 10, 2012), Penguin will no longer offer additional copies of eBooks and download [of] audiobooks for library purchase.

  Additionally, Penguin eBooks loaned for reading on Kindle devices will need to be downloaded to a computer, then transferred to the device over USB.  For library patrons, this means Penguin eBooks will no longer be available for over-the-air delivery to Kindle devices or to Kindle apps.

[ AB here: I guess Amazon made it too easy for customers to get a book for reading from the library - Penguin will ensure that the method used for borrowing a book returns to the most inconvenient way -- and you'll see that spelled out below. ]

We are continuing to talk to Penguin about their future plans for eBook and digital audiobook availability for library lending. '

Kelly points out that, as a result, Penguin "joins Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and Hachette among the Big Six publishers in search of an ebook library lending model."

  So, what remains? Random House hasn't withdrawn yet, but while it's been late to join the other Big6 houses in resisting Amazon's lower pricing of e-books (although Amazon still paid publishers the same amount as before based on the higher suggested retail price), Random House has given in before.

  Then there is the reality that Random House has led the field in discouraging -- actually, disallowing -- the use of text-to-speech on most of its e-books, fearing that the mechanical voice would take too much in sales from the intelligent reading done by trained actors.

During the November brouhaha that ultimately led to the final decision yesterday to "not allow library lending of its new titles (via any vendor), Penguin had initially also targeted OverDrive’s relationship with Amazon as a particular concern, which led the company to demand that OverDrive disable the “Get for Kindle” functionality for all Penguin ebooks."

While Penguin backed down on this, what they termed the "security concerns" apparently remain because the Kindle's Overdrive process removes the transaction from the public library "and takes place under the terms that Amazon has worked out with OverDrive" (by delivering the library books over the air, seamlessly).

All this too-convenient borrowing from public libraries has left publishers "feeling a bit left out in the cold."

Penguin insists it's still interested in the library business, mentioning that it was encouraged by recent talks with the leadership of the American Library Assocation (ALA).

The word 'Value' comes up again from a Big6 publisher
  In the past, books have been borrowable from the library without publishers referring to it (out in the open) as devaluing their books.

  They give lip service to it being "vital that we forge relationships with libraries and build a future together" (after demolishing what exists)... "We care about preserving the value of our authors' work as well as helping libraries continue to serve their communities."

Back to the too-easy borrowing made possible by Amazon's Over-the-Air method
  Kelley mentions "publishers’ concerns that if library loans become too “frictionless,” (too convenient, too easy)  "in other words, do not involve a physical trip to the library to borrow and return a book, that it will eat into their sales."

It seems that as in Europe, the Big6 are hoping to be able to "demand a business model in which they will only make their ebooks available to public libraries if they are used in the library or if a patron is required to bring their device to the library and load the title onto the device in the library, then bring it home.

Kelley sums it up:
This would essentially eliminate all the convenience of borrowing ebooks from a home computer or device.


Update - My favorite lighter-hearted forum reaction today (most were not so light) to this news about Penguin's longing for more friction to deter the urge to borrow:   Posted by The Queen of Creative Invective:

"So, there are so many "friction" jokes that I could make, but all of them would end up being deleted.  Like this one:

If Penguin wants to get friction with me, they are going to have to at least buy me dinner first."

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E-Ink Kindle game 'Every Word' equivalent is available in color on KindleFire. L.A. Times: Kindle Fire the next gaming console?

Jumbline 2 - Free with ads

Jumbline 2 - $1.99 - No ads

L. Doherty, like many others, had missed, when using the Kindle Fire, the free e-Ink Kindle game "Every Word", and decided to post this question last week:

' I would like to have EVERY WORD game available on the Kindle Fire. I had a bunch of word games on my old Kindle Keyboard (3rd generation) and now I cannot get any of them for my Fire. I am so disappointed in this. '

  At the Kindle Community Forums, where you can get good advice from other Kindle owners 24/7, here are a couple of replies on that:

' Joanne M. Manuel says:
Hi, L. Doherty- You should try Jumbline2 Free. It has the same features as EVERY WORD only it's a lot prettier with its colors and animations. There is also a paid version [no ads]...

  Q says:
Joanne,
I have missed "Every Word" on the Fire. THANK YOU for pointing out "Jumbline 2". Exactly the same .... only better! After trying out a level, I was happy to pay the $1.99 for a non-ad copy. '

  These are popular games similar to Scrabble that you can play with time limits to make it harder. On the eInk, I got addicted to it and had to go cold turkey :-)


L.A. Times article on Kindle Fire: "The next gaming console?"
Kindlezen tweeted this interesting story by Alex Pham in the Los Angeles Time's Businesss section, which points out that Amazon's been quietly recruiting game developers, posting dozens of jobs on its site.

  P.J. McNealy, founder of Digital World Research, apparently believes Amazon is preparing to become a force in mobile social gaming.  Pham says that gaming on tablets is taking off and that McNealy suggested that Amazon's well positioned to capitalize on this "because it is the No. 2 player in the tablet market, with its array of rapidly selling Kindle devices trailing only Apple Inc's ipads," and could become "next big gaming platform -- acting as a hardware and software gateway for games in the same way that the PlayStation, Wii and Xbox have for decades.   For details on what Amazon is looking for and what that means for its focus for the future, see the L.A. Times article.



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Kindle Tips: An easier way to make web reading more readable on Kindle Fire

REVISED:  READING FULL WEB PAGES WITH UNREADABLE TINY FONT ON A 7" SCREEN

This is revised from the earlier blog articles on making tiny fonts more readable when doing the web on Kindle Fire and Kindle Touch.

KINDLE TOUCH
The Kindle Touch no longer responds the same way to the Android feature or trick.
 With the KTouch, you now simply Double click a page to get the current text to fill the width of the screen but only at a certain font level which is not large enough for my normal needs, though I can read it.
  You CAN, though, then use two fingers to Pinch-Zoom the text-size to a desired size, but tnen you'll need to scroll around a bit.

 At least, with the Kindle Touch, though, if you are reading a web article (as with a lead individual feature on a product page or news story) you can choose Menu and select Article Mode and get a very readable screen as a result.  (You then select Web Mode to get back into regular web reading mode.)

  But, as an example, for the Customer Reviews that follow an Amazon product page description:  Since the Menu-->Article Mode feature pertains only to a lead article and not to the reviews that follow (and never to a full page), there is no 'Article Mode' for secondary text that gives you the nicely-programmed larger-sized text.   Again, you CAN pinch-zoom any text to a desired size (which is considerably better than what we had before).

  I can no longer, though, get a desired text size that would be adjusted to the screen width, with the Kindle Touch, via pinch-zooming to a largish font-size and then clicking.  Now, it's mainly a toggle that we can get  between tiny and medium-small -- or, we can then use the gradual pinch-zooming to a larger size:

    Again -- Double-click to see the full page with tiny text and Double-click again to see a specific column fit to the width of the screen -- but only in a smaller font size, after which you can pinch-zoom to a larger size and scroll around as needed.   It just no longer lets you fit a column to the width at a larger font-size you've chosen, which is inconvenient, but at least we can make adjustments. (Sorry for the redundancy, but I just want to be as clear as possible.)


KINDLE FIRE -- A really smooth way to get a larger text-size of our choice adjusted to width of the screen when doing the web

  I'd written earlier, in detail, on dealing with web pages or with PDFs in which you can see the full pages, which are usually unreadable in that format with screen widths that are considerably smaller than our computer screens.

  I'd found that many news-site reviewers don't know about a valuable Android feature that is crucial to enjoyment of web pages on small devices (this applies very well to Android smartphones too of course), and those just using a device like the Kindle Fire won't tend to know about them either.

While joining in discussions on Amazon Kindle Forums community where so many Kindle owners hang out to help other owners and get tips in return, I saw the following question and replied to it more briefly than I have in blog articles -- it's likely that a shorter answer can be more helpful, at least at first.

Important
  Kindle Fire Web SETTINGS - Here are the best settings for having this feature work well.
  When you're on the web-browser for the first time (this does not have to be done each time), lightly press the bottom MENU, which looks like a grid or an air-conditioner, with horizontal lines.  Then press Settings.

  At the second option, set Text size to "Normal"
  On the third option, set Default zoom to "Close'
  On the fourth option, set Auto-fit pages to "Format web pages to fit the screen"

' Posted on Jan 1, 2012 10:00:01 AM PST
RE says:

[Q]: I like my Kindle, but can't figure out how to surf the web and be
able to read things.  Yahoo com is so small a magnifying glass is
needed to see it.  I know this is off subject, but can someone tell
me how they do it?

[A} [I've edited my reply to to match how the Kindle Fire works in this situation today.]

Arts&HistoryFan/Kindleworld says:
RE,
You can use an Android feature to pinch-zoom the text to a larger size -- the paragraph of a column you're reading may or may not extend beyond the screen borders.

  Then, SINGLE-tap the screen (do that around the center of the screen), and it will keep this larger text size while adjusting the text to the width of the screen and wrapping it appropriately.

  That Single-tap actually acts to identify that column of text and to center and fit it to the width of the screen and at the same time SET the font at that size.

  If you Double-tap it at this point, it will adjust a bit more  if needed to set the width and margins even better while keeping that larger font size.

  You may, at first, have two columns up on the screen, but the Single-tap will indicate that this is the column of interest. The Double-tap afterward solidifies it and makes a further fine adjustment if needed.

  This works well for forum reading, when you have two or three columns and you want to read just the body of text posted by members of the forum, at a size comfortable for you on the Kindle Fire.

My favorite mode of casual portable web-reading as a result
  This also works well with things like Amazon Customer Reviews and news columns.  It's now my favorite portable way to read web text, because it's smaller than a 10" screen (I have a Samsung Galaxy 10.1 Tab tablet) and is easier to hold, with a screen width that is more like the width of a book I'd be reading, whether hard- or softcover.

  This means I can read web text in whatever size text is best for my eyes at the moment, in a smaller form factor that still presents largish text as needed.   This is called "re-flowing" the text and when it's done for a nicely large font-size, it is very nifty.


Give it a try and let me know if it makes a difference or if you have trouble with it, and in the latter case, let me know what kind of web page is being read, with the link, and I'll take a look.
  One area in which it doesn't work is Amazon product pages' Product Descriptions -- they seem to format those NOT to wrap for some reason.


SOMEtimes, if you Double-tap instead of Single-tap the first time after upsizing the text, the double-tap leads to the tiny version again, but if you double-tap once more, then it goes back up to a medium-sized text that adjusts to the screen-wrap. The initial Single-tap works better.

Reminder: With both these units, but especially the Kindle Fire, a barely perceptible, very light press or tap will be more likely to activate touchscreen responses.



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