Welcome To The Online Amazon Kindle Digest

The Kindle Digest provides information on Amazon Kindle the revolutionary wireless reader device. With Kindle you can download with free unlimited wireless broadband : ebooks, newspapers, magazines, journals and blogs. The Kindle Digest is a guide to bestselling ebooks and book reviews at the Kindle Store. Kindle is also an audiobook and MP3 player with both speakers and head phone jack. With Kindle you surf the web and it has its own e-mail address.

Kindle is completely mobile and simple to use for everyone, it is wireless. No PC and no syncing needed. Using the same 3G network as advanced cell phones, it deliver your content using Amazon's own wireless delivery system, Amazon Whispernet. Unlike WiFi, you’ll never need to locate a hotspot. There are no confusing service plans, yearly contracts, or monthly wireless bills—Amazon take care of the hassles so you can just read.

As a guide the Kindle Digest provides Kindle links to bestselling ebooks lists for: Kindle Store, National, Oprah's Book Club, Children's Chapter Books, Romance, Sports, Fiction, Non Fiction, Travel, Computers, History, Movies, Sexuality, Parenting & Families and more.

Bookmark the Kindle Digest and check back often. Kindle bestselling book lists and book reviews are updated daily. Use the Kindle Store category list for future reference.

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SHOP THE AMAZON KINDLE STORE

Say Hello to The New Kindle

Slim: Just over 1/3 of an inch, as thin as most magazines

Lightweight: At 10.2 ounces, lighter than a typical paperback

Wireless: 3G wireless lets you download books right from your Kindle, anytime, anywhere; no monthly fees, service plans, or hunting for Wi-Fi hotspots

Books in Under 60 Seconds: Get books delivered in less than 60 seconds; no PC required

Improved Display: Reads like real paper; now boasts 16 shades of gray for clear text and even crisper images

Longer Battery Life: 25% longer battery life; read for days without recharging

More Storage: Take your library with you; holds over 1,500 books

Faster Page Turns: 20% faster page turns

Read-to-Me: With the new Text-to-Speech feature, Kindle can read every book, blog, magazine, and newspaper out loud to you

Large Selection: Over 230,000 books plus U.S. and international newspapers, magazines, and blogs available

Low Book Prices: New York Times Best Sellers and New Releases $9.99, unless marked otherwise

Amazon Fire HD Tablets Technical Details

Display7" multi-touch display with IPS (in-plane switching) technology and anti-reflective treatment, 1024 x 600 pixel resolution at 169 ppi, 16 million colors.
Size (in inches)7.5" x 4.7" x 0.45" (190 mm x 120 mm x 11.4 mm).
Weight14.6 ounces (413 grams).
System RequirementsNone, because it's wireless and doesn't require a computer.
On-device Storage8GB internal (approximately 6GB available for user content). That's enough for 80 apps, plus 10 movies or 800 songs or 6,000 books.
Cloud StorageFree cloud storage for all Amazon content
Battery LifeUp to 8 hours of continuous reading or 7.5 hours of video playback, with wireless off. Battery life will vary based on wireless usage, such as web browsing and downloading content.
Charge TimeFully charges in approximately 4 hours via included U.S. power adapter. Also supports charging from your computer via USB.
Wi-Fi ConnectivitySupports public and private Wi-Fi networks or hotspots that use 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n, or enterprise networks with support for WEP, WPA and WPA2 security using password authentication; does not support connecting to ad-hoc (or peer-to-peer) Wi-Fi networks.
USB PortUSB 2.0 (micro-B connector)
Audio3.5 mm stereo audio jack, top-mounted stereo speakers.
Content Formats SupportedKindle (AZW), TXT, PDF, unprotected MOBI, PRC natively, Audible (Audible Enhanced (AA, AAX)), DOC, DOCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, non-DRM AAC, MP3, MIDI, OGG, WAV, MP4, VP8.
DocumentationQuick Start Guide (included in box); Kindle Fire User's Guide (pre-installed on device). Additional information available online.
Warranty and Service1-year limited warranty and service included. Optional 2-year Extended Warranty available for U.S. customers sold separately. Use of Kindle is subject to the terms found here.
Included in the BoxKindle Fire device, U.S. power adapter (supports 100-240V), and Quick Start Guide.


Bestsellers At The Kindle Store

National Bestsellers: Fiction and Nonfiction

Oprah's Book Club® Series At The Kindle Store

Children's Chapter Books At The Kindle Store

Guide To Other Kindle Store Bestselling eBooks

Kindle Newspapers: Auto-Delivered Wirelessly To Your Kindle Each Morning

Kindle Magazines: Auto-Delivered Wirelessly to Your Kindle

Monday, January 23, 2012

What People Are Saying

" The Kindle Fire is a 7-inch tablet that links seamlessly with Amazon's impressive collection of digital music, video, magazine, and book services in one easy-to-use package. It boasts a great Web browser, and its curated Android app store includes most of the big must-have apps (such as Netflix, Pandora, and Hulu). The Fire has an ultra-affordable price tag, and the screen quality is exceptional for the price." - CNET " The Fire gives me the features I want at a price point that's less than half of the iPad 2. I can check my email, browse the Internet, maybe play a few games, most importantly, I can read magazines in color on a Kindle." - Gizmodo " The Fire is a marvelous device." - Chicago Sun Times " Amazon’s Kindle Fire is likely to be the first successful tablet not sold by Apple, and there are several good reasons for it: the low price of $199, the convenient, portable size of 7 inches, and a rich catalog of books, movies and music offered through Amazon’s Web-based services." - Ars Technica " There's a new mayor in Droidville. But this guy didn’t roll into town with pomp and circumstance. He strolled down Main Street and simply offered more than any other candidate, extolling a plan based on down-to-earth sensibility and affordability. Meet the Kindle Fire." - Seeking Alpha

Blast From The Past: Interactive Fiction Games Come To Kindle

The year is 1603, and you are in Elizabethan London. When you receive an invitation from an old acquaintance, you expect nothing but an entertaining evening with good food and drink. Instead, you find yourself plunged into a conspiracy of black magic involving some of the most powerful and important men in London. Will you thwart this conspiracy before it brings down the entire city? That’s up to you in “The King of Shreds and Patches,” a new interactive fiction game for Kindle. Rather, the game is new for Kindle but its concept dates back to the 1980s. “The King of Shreds and Patches” was originally available as a desktop PC game, the creation of Jimmy Maher, an expert in interactive fiction. He defines the concept of interactive fiction in more detail here, but here’s the basic definition: [Interactive fiction is] a unique form of computer-based storytelling which places the player in the role of a character in a simulated world, and which is characterized by its reliance upon text as its primary means of output and by its use of a flexible natural-language parser for input. The term originated, many years after the birth of the genre it describes, in the early 1980s with a company called Infocom. At that time, games of this sort were commonly known as “adventure games” or “text adventures,” the latter to distinguish them from the graphical brand of story-based games which were just beginning to compete with text-based titles in the marketplac

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Send to Kindle” function from Amazon

The “Send to Kindle” function from Amazon is now available for your PC. Using your Kindle or Kindle App in Windows Explorer, readers can send documents “To Kindle”. “You can also simply archive documents in your Kindle Library for re-download later. Your last page read along with bookmarks, notes and highlights are automatically synchronized for your documents (with the exception of PDF’s) across your Kindle devices and supported Kindle reading apps.” – From Kindle Daily Post With a free download, you can send personal documents from your “PC, Windows Explorer, or “any Windows application that can print” to “Send to Kindle”. The app also gives you the ability to download multiple documents. Your archived documents can be accessed via: Kindle library, any Kindle device, or Kindle for iPod/iPad.

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Kindle Fire Review

Kindle Fire Review 10.01.2012 | Author: James Perron | Posted in Computer Amazon caused quite a sensation in the summertime of 2011 when they revealed the upcoming release of a new 7 inch tablet with an 8 hour battery life that would run on a very customised version of Android and cost somewhat less than $200. When the final specs were exposed the interest reached fever pitch as it was very similar to the iPad 2 with a 1 GHz dual-core processor and 512 MB RAM. However , closer inspection and use of the Kindle Fire shows that far from being an iPad 2 killer, the Kindle Fire meets a very different role. The first thing you may notice when reading thru the Kindle Fire specs is the absence of some of the hardware which is commonplace even on smartphones nowadays. You will not find a camera, mike, GPS, compass or a 3G chip so what you can do with the Kindle Fire is rather restricted. Amazon has even cut off access to the Android Market-place so you can only download authorised programmes from the Kindle Store but before you balk at the concept, the Kindle Store has 16,000 apps available to download including all the most popular tools, utilities, office programs and games that you’ll find on the Android Marketplace. What Amazon has done is create a fascinating handheld tablet that leverages its vast media library to become the ultimate consumption device. The Kindle Fire isn’t designed to be a creative tablet like the Samsung Galaxy or the Apple iPad 2, it’s engineered to do one thing which is to make it as simple as practicable to access Amazon’s database of movies, television shows, ebooks, apps and music. To this end, Amazon even sells the Fire at a complete loss because it knows it’ll make up the cost in the longer term which goes some way toward explaining the awesome price.

What People Are Saying About Kindle Touch

What People Are Saying About Kindle Touch "To get a device with touch navigation and lifetime 3G and two month’s battery life for $149 is a staggering proposition." - OnlyGizmos.com "[Kindle Touch] felt instantly intuitive to use, and I’m not even someone who’s great with gadgets.I definitely think EasyReach will make it more comfortable to read in bed, which is important to me." - EW.com "The real feature to remember the Kindle Touch by is the new “X-ray” functionality that allows you to select a page and instantly have a Wikipedia page pop-up with all the info you could ever want on important words or subjects on any given page." - Gadgetsteria "X-ray is a godsend when you have put a book down for a while and forget who the players are - even if the book includes a section for cast of characters, pop-up trumps look-up every time." - Wired "The Best Part: How easy it is to do anything that has to do with a book: shopping, borrowing,research, reference, skimming, note taking. You don't have to supplement the Kindle Touch for anything book-related." - Gizmodo

Your New Kindle: What You Need to Know

Your New Kindle: What You Need to Know ARTICLE DATE : January 4, 2012 By Jamie Lendino Welcome to the digital book revolution. The latest Amazon Kindle ($79, 4.5 stars) and Kindle Touch 3G ($139, 4 stars) are Amazon's best ebook readers yet. They're also pretty easy to use. But Amazon doesn't pack a printed manual, and Amazon's Web site doesn't necessarily emphasize the simplest way to do things, either. That's where we come in. Here's what you need to know to get the most from your new Kindle—without spending a single extra cent. Join a network—any network. If you bought a Wi-Fi Kindle, go to Menu -> Settings -> Wi-Fi Networks, scan the list for your home wireless hotspot, choose it, and then enter the password. You can also do this from a public hotspot, although once you get home you'll need to add your home network later. Kindle 3G owners can get started right away using the built-in Whispernet cellular connection. If you've got a 3G Kindle, feel free skip the Wi-Fi step for now, although you may want to add your network later, as it's usually faster.

Monday, January 9, 2012

Amazon Kindles sold at amazing pace

Amazon Kindles sold at amazing pace of 1 million a week in December By Beth Jinks, Published: December 29 | Updated: Friday, December 30, 9:49 AM Dec. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Amazon.com Inc., the largest Internet retailer, said it sold “well over” 1 million Kindles a week in December, with record demand led by its Kindle Fire tablet. The top three sellers on Amazon’s website were the Kindle Fire and two electronic readers, the Kindle Touch and Kindle, Seattle-based Amazon said today in a statement. Gifting of Kindle books rose 175 percent from a year earlier in the period from Nov. 25 to Christmas Day, Amazon said without providing sales data. The company introduced the Kindle Fire, which has a 7-inch display and sells for less than half the price of Apple Inc.’s least-expensive iPad, on Sept. 28 in a bid to erode Apple’s dominance. Amazon is releasing a Fire update to improve performance, make touch navigation easier and let users choose what items are displayed, after some users complained.

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Kindle Fire Cut Into iPad Sales

Kindle Fire Cut Into iPad Sales, Analyst Says By John P. Mello Jr., PCWorld Jan 3, 2012 10:13 AM As many as two million fewer iPads were sold this holiday season because of Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet, according to one analyst. Selling at $199, compared to $499 for the lowest priced iPad, the Kindle Fire sold more than four million units during December alone. Overall, sales growth for the iPad during the holidays was off the mark, according to Morgan Keegan analyst Tavis McCourt. In a research note, he estimated that Apple sold 13 million iPads during the final quarter of the year, which bested its sales record for the device set in the previous quarter, 11.2 million, but fell short of McCourt's prediction of 16 million in holiday sales. Kindle Fire sales trimmed iPad sales during the holiday period by "at most" one to two million units, the analyst estimated, according to Forbes.