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Amazon just announced (December 30, 2010) that eligible Kindle books can be lent once, for a period of 14 days. They have also provided detailed illustrated instructions on amazon.com. Briefly, there are two ways to determine if a book is lendable and initiate a loan: Go to the book’s page in the Amazon Kindle store, . . . → Read More: How to Lend a Kindle book A Kindle book has two cover images that serve different purposes and cause a lot of confusion: The cover image that displays on your Kindle or Kindle reading app The cover image in the amazon.com product catalog Numerous questions posted on the Amazon Digital Text Platform (DTP) Support Forums are about the dimensions and file . . . → Read More: Kindle book cover size If you have more than one "Kindle for the Web" sample on a single page, the display may be mangled. Yesterday, someone showed me an example on a multiple-post blog page. The second book sample was literally "jumping up" from its own post into the previous post, directly under the first book sample. If you . . . → Read More: Display Multiple Kindle Samples on One Page Amazon just announced a new Reading App that doesn’t require an app at all: Kindle for the Web, Beta. On Amazon pages for selected books, there is a new button labeled Read first chapter FREE. When you click the button, you can read the sample chapter or get the code to embed it on a . . . → Read More: Amazon announces Kindle for the Web Did you know that you can highlight an interesting passage in a Kindle book, and then share your thoughts about it on Facebook or Twitter? Highlighting has been available on the Kindle for a while, but in mid-2010, Amazon added the hook to social networks. I love to read, and sometimes I get excited about . . . → Read More: Share Kindle highlights on Facebook |
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