11 posts tagged ‘Kindle’
The Onyx Boox Go 6 Did Not Free Me From the Kindle Store’s Grip
Gizmodo,
The e-reader is comfortable to read and open to third-party reading apps, but it's a little sluggish.
Exporting Kindle Highlights for Personal Documents
mjtsai,
I’ve long used the Send to Kindle app to upload documents for reading on my Kindle Oasis. Unlike with books, I usually don’t care about saving notes and highlights for these, so I haven’t tried doing that in a while. However, I recently read a long document where I did make extensive highlights. Then I […]
Devices That Are Not USB C in My Life
Mere Civilian: First, I give my appreciation to the European Union for their efforts in nudging (we all know it was more than a nudge) Apple to support USB C. However, there are still devices in my life that I use daily that are not USB C. Strangely, as each year passes by, it becomes […]
Everything Big Tech Killed Off in 2023
Big Tech went on a murder spree in 2023. We saw the end of many once-loved products and services, all swallowed up into the great dark pit of corporate consolidation. Few companies kept their knives sheathed, and if this year taught us anything, 2024 is likely to be just as bloody. Read more...
20 Underrated Fantasy Books to Gift the Readers in Your Life
As the holidays near, it can be a challenge to buy gifts for the most voracious book readers in your life—but 2023 has seen a ton of excellent fantasy books hit shelves, to the point that it’s been hard to keep up with all the greatest new material. Here’s 20 of our favorite underrated choices that will make the… Read more...
RIP Amazon's Comixology App, Which Dies in December
It’s been nearly a full decade since Amazon acquired Comixology. The popular storefront for reading and buying comics online was able to relatively remain its own thing until about early last year when it was hit with a heavily criticized redesign. Things have gotten worse since then: not only did it get caught up Amaz… Read more...
Amazon is finally killing Comixology for good
Boing Boing,
Amazon has announced that, as of December 4, 2023, the Comixology app is officially done. Amazon purchased the digital comic book service in 2014, and has gradually blurred the lines between Comixology and its own Kindle digital book services. But come December, the standalone Comixology app will officially be no more. — Read the rest
Kindle for Mac 7.0
Filipe Espósito: Amazon launched an official Kindle app for macOS more than eight years ago, allowing Mac users to download and read their ebooks from Amazon’s platform on their computer. […] On Tuesday, the official Kindle app available on the Mac App Store was updated to version 1.40.2. But while the release notes mention that […]