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Kindle world news: B&N ‘matches’ KFire price with scaled down tablet. What it can and cannot do. Update

Kindle world news: B&N matches KFire price with scaled down tablet. What it can and cannot do. Update B&N MATCHES KINDLE FIRE PRICE POINT

B&N did what’s been predicted the last week or so and announced a $199 NOOK Tablet with the following changes to match more closely the Kindle Fire pricing and specs.

RAM: 1 gig down to 512M (this is what the iPad2 still uses)
Storage: 16 gigs down to 8 gigs

Strange partitionings of storage space by B&N
However, it has kept the microSD expansion card option, which has been crucial for the Nook because B&&N partitioned its storage area so that only 1 gig was available for the user’s own files that are not bought from B&N and which are side-loaded via USB connection. That includes videos. The other 15 gigs of storage space was kept for B&N content, and the files (even books you purchased from B&N) were now hidden from the customer so that you couldn’t see them even with a USB connection to a computer using a file manager for transfers.

This change was finally noticed (the repartitioning was first done for the older NookColor tablets produced after April-May 2011 and then it was done for the Nook Tablet announced last November) about a week after the release of the Nook Tablet last November. As a NookColor owner, I did see forum notes from customers confused by the sudden disappearance of Nookbook filenames and less space for their own files, earlier.

There was quite a bit of unhappiness over that decision. The Nook tablets were more locked into store content than Amazon’s Kindle Fire is (and the Nook B&N content hidden from view, probably so it couldn’t be copied by the customer as their rights-protection is done only by credit card numbers, which could have been expired and then passed on to friends etc.).

As a result, not only was the tablet $50 more to start, but now the customer now needed to also buy a microSD card to read or play their non-B&N content (and yes, Amazon customers can have much more non-Amazon content on the Kindle Fire).

So the difference between the Nook and Kindle Fire tablets was more like $70-$90 total difference if you wanted a good 16-32 gig SD card in addition to the basic $50 higher cost.

Now, B&N has seen the light on the only 1-gig storage allowed for a customer’s own media from other sources (though space is not allowed for *apps* from other sources) and are offering customers the option to have *repartitioning* done on existing 16-gig Nook Tablets, beginning March 15, if they bring their tablets to any B&N store, where the change will be done for them.

Any NEW $250 Nook Tablets will have the new-partitioning in place when shipped, after this is all put into place (more details will be given by B&N in March).

I’ve seen no mention yet of this change being offered for the newer NookColors produced after April-May though. Here’s one caution in a NookColor tips message-thread, about the repartitioning that was done on the more recent ones last year.

ACCESS to NON-store apps, to ones made for the Google Android Market
What the new and old Nook Tablets will NOT have, though, is B&N’s enabling of an option that allows customers to install Android apps from sources OTHER than B&N.

Amazon left this Android option (to allow installs of apps from unknown sources) ENABLED, which makes a huge difference to those of us who want the access to regular Android apps (without needing to ‘root’ the tablet and therefore void our warranties or have to re-root it — something not recommended for everyday users — with every upgrade).

It’s quite huge not to have the easy option that the Amazon tablet has, of access to the vast availability of other sources for often excellent apps.

I have an earlier article with mainstream magazine pointers to guides on how to do side-loading of non-Amazon apps, and now one can often just download them from one of several sites (though you should use only the generally trusted ones and choose files that have been online there for awhile without troubles reported). The Amazon Kindle Community Forum is a good place to get advice from other Kindle customers about more-trusted sources and which apps which are not findable in the Amazon Android Appstore are worth getting.

Add that the B&N Android apps store does not have the strength of Amazon’s yet — this week, it was announced that Amazon apps customized and approved for the Kindle Fire from versions originally for Google’s Android market have made more in sales for developers than the versions from the Android Market, despite Amazon’s app store having so much that is free plus specific pay-apps being made free-for-a-day on a daily basis.

About half of my Kindle Fire apps are from getjar.com, slideme.org, and places like freewarelovers.com, which are distribution sites for Android apps which customized tablets like the Kindle Fire and Nook Tablets cannot access directly at Google’s Android Market site. I’ve found good ones in the Amazon app store this week though for avid readers and will do an article on that soon.

That access is very important to me, and I’m glad Amazon doesn’t limit us to only what they’ve approved and what they themselves sell.

They handle this by competing for the customers’ business rather than forbidding ‘foreign’ apps on the Kindle Fire and there is no ‘rooting’ of the device necessary to get these (again, any rooting must be repeated for each software update — where it can be done — and is not supported by the device vendors).

STORAGE SPACE and a Sharing Option
So, the main advantage for the Nook (besides its having physical Volume and Home buttons) is the external microSD capability which can give you another 16 to 32 gigs on any card you use with it.

For the $250 Nook Tablet model, that advantage has been watered down by the availability of Kingston’s Wi-Drive shared-streaming storage device which lets you use a *wireless* external drive smaller than the size of an iPhone 4s to not only store 16 to 32 gigs of files but to have up to three people access the same or different media on the drive at the same time, from the Kindle Fire and other devices WHILE also using the Internet (the latter is something similar products can’t do).

The 16-gig version is $50 and the 32-gig version is $90. I’ve been able to run media from it, smoothly, (which is the only way on this device) from the Kindle Fire, my Samsung phone and larger Samsung tablet. Since it’s smaller than my cell phone it’s always in my purse now when not being used. I asked for a review copy, something I almost never do because I don’t like to take time to review products, and found the 16-gig device very smooth to use. Streaming of nicely-converted mp4′s (as from DVD Catalyst 4) from it didn’t stutter or have artifacts). I was told I could keep it, and my reaction was to buy the 32-gig version from them (via Amazon) so I could have even more stored to stream whenever I wanted. One thing you can’t do with an SD card is have 3 people running video from it at the same time on their individual devices.

Then there is the free Amazon server storage for any music you’ve bought from Amazon which you can stream instantly from any computer you’re at and from the Kindle Fire. You can also stream non-Amazon music that you upload to your free 5 gigs of “Amazon Cloud” storage.

I do prefer the Amazon ecosystem of instantly streamable media that doesn’t require subscriptions to other vendors’ content although I also like to use Netflix and HuluPlus. Much of what I want lately is from PBS, ABC, and Amazon has added these and 50% more in the last month in the way of PRIME-member-program (free 2-day shipping of products for $6.58/mo) extra benefits of movie/tv streaming — about 15,000 videos now.

OTHER ASPECTS OF NOOK TABLETS AND KINDLE FIRE
The screen of the Nook Tablet is more matte-like and that’s an advantage for B&N, less glare. I do have the older NookColor and enjoyed it daily before I got the Kindle Fire, which has a faster processor.

There are certain things that, as a card-carrying Barnes and Noble member ($25/yr), I don’t like though. The vaunted in-store customer service is, in reality, very weak.

The customer service policies, in general (return with refund periods, call-back times) are also not that attractive. .
You can google the general feedback on B&N’s Nook customer service and on Amazon’s Kindle customer service at any time.

If you use the tablets to read color versions of your e-books, you should know that Amazon gives refunds on Kindle books you didn’t mean to download (and haven’t finished) or which have layout problems that you find too problematical, within 7 days of purchase.

Barnes & Noble’s policies are strong that there is no refund, and they’ve applied that policy in the past to even books with missing pages and always to even really bad layout discovered once you have the book. The free samples you download from B&N tend to be smaller.

The Nook’s strength, relative to Amazon
Where I prefer the Nook Tablet is its programming for magazines. They have far less in the way of newspapers and magazines available, but the National Geographic magazine and an electronics one I subscribe to are better designed than what I’ve seen with Amazon’s magazines, so far, which often do not allow zooming into the photos (a big minus when it doesn’t) and this goes for the text also, which makes some pages not very readable to me then.

With the Nook, I can read the content in context of the page as seen in print format because of the effective zoom-in. I like the quality of the lettering better too. Amazon, I’m sorry, but some work is needed in this area.

The Nook’s “Article View” is easier for me to read and access than Amazon’s. To be fair, there are many who like Amazon’s implementation.

If you already have a Kindle Fire and want to try, though, a 90-day free trial, Amazon still has (until March 1) the special offer they’ve had for Kindle Fire customers since November — an “exclusive free three-month trial of 17 Condé Nast magazines, including Vanity Fair, GQ, WIRED and Glamour. Ironically, you can only try these if you already have a Kindle Fire.

For those who would get a tablet primarily for magazines: if the Nook’s much smaller collection includes what you want and you need to be able to enlarge the text of a page as it is seen in the print version, then I recommend the Nook Tablet for that. Me? I’d pay the extra $50 (plus cost of good SD card) if I wanted a Nook Tablet, to get the faster, larger storage one. (It’s currently $244 at Amazon for some reason at the link above.)

Definitely I’d not pay the $30 less to get the older single-core processor NookColor ($169 now but that price has not been adjusted on the Amazon B&N product-page yet), but I will keep the NookColor I already have, for my magazine subscriptions. I give B&N Kudos for upgrading the old NookColor to do Netflix and HuluPlus though. (I read that there’s a slowdown due to the single-core processor of the NookColor relative to the later tablets but haven’t tried it yet.)

If only Amazon treated its Kindle DX customers as well with a software update for the simple PDF enhancements given the same “Pearl” e-Ink screen of the Kindle 3. A software update is long past due on the expensive Kindle DX’s and it’s the one area in which Kindle Customer Service has fallen down.

Update – Because we can add Google Android apps not available to the Kindle Fire at the Amazon apps store, I added the Nook reader app. This does allow me to see my Nook-downloaded magazines with the zoom-in feature and the Nook design. That IS a plus, but I still prefer reading these on the NookColor because it’s smoother and the font clarity on the basic version is better.

For everything else, I really love the access, with the Kindle Fire, to all types of non-Amazon apps in addition to Amazon’s collection (and I find some of the Amazon store apps improved for the Kindle Fire, from Android Market ones that were focused on the smaller phones).

The streaming media is beautiful, but I have Comcast which gives much faster streaming (than DSL setups –the default lower-tier plans) that is necessary for higher-resolution video from Netflix and Hulu and of course Amazon’s instant video, which is beautiful. The growing collection great for families that would appreciate the many excellent documentaries available in addition to some fine older movies. They’ve also just made new video arrangements with Viacom. They have current material from PBS as well and some BBC tv programs not findable on Netflix.

Prime Amazon can be accessed via the Nook Tablets too, the streaming is optimized for the Kindle Fire and there are bonuses only Kindle Fire owners can get.

SERVER (‘Cloud’) BACKUP of your media
B&N also gives free storage of course for media purchased from them.

What they don’t do is give you 5 gigs of free space for any media files you want to store on their servers for easy retrieval when needed but which you acquired elsewhere or made yourself (videoclips). Amazon does (against misinformation about their not allowing non-Amazon products).

Nor does B&N give 5 gigs of free storage to Kindle owners who want to keep personal docs stored on Amazon servers and which are readable and *sync-able* between your various devices as with the Kindle books.

Amazon, to Penguin Group’s displeasure over “friction-less” borrowing, makes public library borrowing easier in that you can choose the library book and Amazon will deliver it over the air via WiFi when you’re near a WiFi network rather than make you use the computer and a USB connection to transfer it and without your needing to sync Adobe’s approval process for rights-management with it. B&N was going to be doing this eventually too, but I haven’t heard that they’ve been able to yet.

Again, for avid readers, only Kindle owners who are Prime members are able to borrow, from 50,000+ titles, a Kindle book (including 100+ current and former NY Times Bestsellers) once per calendar month, with no waiting period and no due-dates. You can share the borrowed book with other Kindles on your account.

Gizmodo headlined this program: “Game Over: Amazon Prime is Officially the Greatest Deal in Tech“

Here’s Amazon’s description of Prime Lending Library

You can browse, at Amazon’s website, the 50,000+ Kindle books that are borrowable this way. The actual borrowing must take place on your Kindle though, something that hasn’t been made clear on the product pages for the books.

In the meantime, the news is filled with the possibility of Amazon coming out with a larger Kindle Fire, some say 8.9″ and some say 10″ sometime in the 2nd quarter, which has always tended to mean at the end of the quarter if we’re lucky. And this 2nd, larger tablet has always been expected. The rumors have not been that strong as no one was pinning down even what size screen would be involved or anything else about what they might be planning, although Digitimes, which was called “often reliable” (love what that means), said a couple of days ago that Foxconn has received an order for 10″ Kindle Fires. Judging from what has gone on before, the estimates are always too optimistic.

In the meantime, the 7″ one has proved very popular, even with people who already own iPads or other large tablets. It’s just easier to take with you anywhere and the 16:9 ratio is great for the widescreen movies that are popular today.

Today’s NY Times carries an article by Associated Press on B&N’s announced quarterly income falling 14 percent, due to rising costs. Both Amazon and B&N are seeing large development and warehousing + delivery costs on their devices while keeping the price as low as possible.

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Guide to finding Free Kindle books and Sources. Top 100 free bestsellers. Liked-books under $1
UK-Only: recently published free books, bestsellers, or £5 Max ones
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Kindle Tips: Kindle Fire Books that Seem to Disappear – Solution to Glitch

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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

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Kindle Tips: To Kindle-Edition Subscribers: How to handle free-book link results

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Webpage result with tiny fonts

After Choosing Menu and Article Mode

After Pinch-zooming larger

KINDLE EDITION OF THE BLOG: HOW TO DEAL WITH LINKS LEADING TO IMPOSSIBLY TINY FONTS

I’ve received some understandable grumbles from subscribers that links to free books don’t go to the Kindle-device version of the Kindlestore, which is easier to read, and that, instead, the links go to unreadable webpages with tiny fonts.

That’s true, and in the Free-book-alert blog entries, I mention that Kindle Edition Subscribers, who get the last 25 blog articles on an edition, should do those links from a computer.

Having said that though, it’s Amazon who decides where the links go, and they take subscribers lately to a fast-loading modified or simplified web-site version for mobile devices although not to the simplest version, the Kindle-device version of the store. I can’t do anything about it, unfortunately.

SOLUTION
What I do want to point out is that once you’re on one of those result pages of TINY print for an item, there is a solution.

You can press Menu and then “Article Mode” to read the book description there.
It’s extremely clear that way. And it loads quickly also.

I’ve made some screenshots above to show you the difference if you choose this reading mode that Amazon has provided but doesn’t say much about.

In Article Mode, however, you can’t choose to buy or interact — but once out of Article mode and back to Web Mode (you can use Menu or Back-arrow to get back to Web Mode), you can opt to press a button to get a free sample (from which you can later get the book if you like the sample) or to “purchase” it for $0.00 if the current pricing is still free. If intrigued, the latter is wise, as the free-books last for only hours or a couple of days.

With a Kindle Touch, all of this is fairly easy. While you can pinch-zoom the entire page of text and see it larger, you’d still need to scroll around. So it’s best to start with selecting ‘Article Mode.’ Once you’re back on the tiny-font webpage, use pinch-zoom to enlarge the text to find the box to request a sample if wanted, or to get the book.

With the Kindle Keyboard’s results page, you get a ZOOM box that you can click on to enlarge that boxed section. This can be good for getting a sample but it’s awkward. You still do have, however, that ‘Article Mode’ for reading the book description.

I hope this helps. Amazon’s recent change to a faster-loading books-webpage makes clicking on links of interest with your Kindle device more worthwhile than in the past.

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

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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 Tickets Common Ground (The Common Ground Trilogy)
Devil’s Food (A Loretta Kovacs thriller)
Raw Vengeance (The Rich Fordham Series)
The Lazarus File

Romance:
Red Magic Hearts 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.

I’ve sifted out and gathered several sublistings under each name who made those 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 Kindle Touch WiFi 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 Touch gets a Sodoku puzzle book debuting Touch/Write technology

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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).

Kindle Touch 3G Kindle Touch WiFi 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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Free Kindle books Sun. Feb 19 — 192 chosen by forum members from 370+ listed .

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Free Kindle books Sun. Feb 19 -- 192 chosen by forum members from 370+ listed . FREE KINDLE BOOKS from Joyce and Annie B’s daily forum threads of free Kindle book alerts and forumner recommendations.

370+ newly and temporarily free Kindle books for Sun., 2/19/12.
192 suggestions for consideration, in listings by forum members
plus a link to more forum pages of them.

*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 370+ book titles made free on Sunday.

Lists by forum members are compiled from the several forum postings they make while plowing through the titles on websites — 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 can strike it off the list for today.

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 the huge-number for any Prime’ $0.00 price, which is for *borrowing* but it looks like a purchase price and is sized larger than the normal pricing, which of course has confused people.)

By “Princess” Joyce
1. Win or Go Home (Dr. Rick Parker, Bountyhunter) (Mystery-Thriller)
2. Ribbons And Rainbows (Romance)
3. Assignment: Drum Beat (Jack Tangiers Thriller) (Mystery – Suspense)
4. A Ticket to Die For (Wild Onion, Ltd. Mystery) (Mystery)
5. The Little Flowers (Historical Fiction)
6. 27 Easy Brownies Recipes (Easy Cupcakes & Brownies Recipes) (Cook Book)
[ Caution: Later, "27 Easy..." series not recommended, by several]
7. Death Wears High Heels (Mystery – Thriller)
8. Off the Grid (A Gerrit O’Rourke Novel) (Suspense)
9. Rogue’s Hollow (Suspense)
10. Just Deceits: A Historical Courtroom Mystery (Mystery – Supense – Thriller)
[ diva cautions later: "...it is in a terrible format. It looks like a conversion from PDF to a word processing program and has not been proofed to remove all transfer errors.]
— Set Two follows
1. Forgetful of Strangers (Suspense)
2. Hellbender (Murder Ballads and Whiskey) (Suspense)
3. Route 66 Sweetheart (Historical Fiction)
4. 27 Easy Cupcakes Recipes (Easy Cupcakes & Brownies Recipes) (Cook Book)
[ Later, MANY cautions about this cookbook]
5. Coming About (Romance)
6. Rosanada Requiem (The Rosanada Trilogy) (Mystery – Thriller)
7. The Glass Fence (Contemporary Fiction)
8. Killer Desires (Romance – Suspense)
9. The Boyfriend Bylaws (Totally Fit) (Romance)
10. Chihuahua Karma (Contemporary Fiction)

By Nospin
A Ticket to Die For (Wild Onion, Ltd. Mystery)
Wounded Earth –mystery/thriller
Off the Grid (A Gerrit O’Rourke Novel) – mystery/suspense/police procedural
Autism Special Needs Children: Why My Child Is Different – The Complete Guide To Autism Asperger Syndrome – Autism Therapy, Diet, Diagnosis, Autism Symptoms, Signs, & Treatments , Limited Edition
50 Gluten Free Recipes: 50 easy, affordable and tasty recipes for the whole family.
The book seems to be written from the heart but is mostly written with the European customer in mind although she does include conversions in an appendix.

Thanks for the recommendation on Forgetful of Strangers
The description intrigued me: “Mark Daniels is a Yankee reporter working for the New York Times. Staunch and distant, Daniels is well equipped for the lifestyle of New York City, but when he is assigned to cover a hearing on the possible re-trial of a convicted murderer from Chases Corner, Daniels is tossed into a world in which his skills as a city-boy will do him little good.
When Daniels comes across a defrocked Catholic Priest living in Chases Corner, research the old priest is doing on a connection between autism and angels presents a whole new perspective on the people there. While straddling work on his original story and a growing interest in the mysteries of Chases Corner, he finds himself at the epicenter of a juicy political scandal rooted in racism. Daniels is forced to choose between the biggest scoop of his twenty-year career in journalism, or continuing a journey that is pulling him to look for answers he may not want to find.”
The first three chapters are very well written and the book flows very well. It has grabbed me for my next read in spite of having 3 currently going.

By Alex
Pandora’s Succession
Mystery and Thrillers
CIA operative, Ridley Fox, never stopped hunting his fiancée’s killers–a weapons consortium called The Arms of Ares. When an informant leads him to an old bunker outside of Groznyy, Chechnya, Fox is captured, beaten, and left for dead. When the informant rescues him, Fox learns that his capture was no coincidence: someone had set him up

IN DRACULA’S TIME
Mystery and Thrillers
The untold story of an ancient biography of Vlad the Impaler that inspired Bram Stoker’s creation of Dracula. IN DRACULA’S TIME reveals Stoker’s secret source, hidden from view for almost a century.SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICE – LIMITED TIME…

Milo Moon
Mystery and Thrillers
It all ended after World War Two. Or so it was thought. While medical and physiological experimentation on humans was repugnant and against all sensibilities, it remained valuable and above all highly profitable. Just simply believing something had gone away was good enough for most.

Escana
Fantasy
When troubled author Jakob Sandberg breaks free of the Clearer Minds mental institute, he finds himself falling into Escana, the world of his own creation.
Therein he must view the land through the eyes of his protagonist, a man tasked with killing six powerful individuals that threaten the stability of an empire.
Hounded by the law, Jakob’s fate is intrinsicly linked to many figures both kind and monstrous:

CIA: OPERATION THUNDER (Spy Novel)
Mystery and Thrillers
A modern thriller with a group of unprecedented and sadistic terrorists thrown into an extremely action-packed investigation

The Icarus Void
Sci-Fi
The crew of the Icarus is used to high-stress situations: their ship is designed to dive into the heart of a star to collect scientific data for research. But when they discover an alien artifact hovering in low orbit of the Sun, the attempt to retrieve it pushes them to the breaking point.

By Cinder [ A caution noted]
I have already picked up some of the cookbooks & thought I would mention,
I did notice some errors in ingredients, measurements, in this:
27 Easy Cupcakes Recipes (Easy Cupcakes & Brownies Recipes)

“I teaspoon of baking” “preheat oven to 355 F”
“3 tablespoons Ron” etc.

ETA 27 Easy Brownies Recipes (Easy Cupcakes & Brownies Recipes) Is by the same author? Has the exact same introduction. & “oven at 355 F”.
[ Others pick up on other errors and what may be 'lifted graphics']

By mary
Mystery/Thrillers
Since Tomorrow
Historical Fiction
Just Deceits: A Historical Courtroom Mystery

By Denise Long
my picks:
ALTOR: The Shadow Rebellion (The Chronicles of Ageron)
Rosanada Requiem (The Rosanada Trilogy)
51 Essential Oil Recipes To Improve Your Health And Clean Your Home
The Little Flowers
Dragon

By Elle Em DeeComing About (romance/chick lit)
The Little Flowers (historical fiction)
Complete First Year Adventures of Buster Bee (The Complete First Year Omnibus) (children’s)
The Spinning Wheel Secret (children’s historical fiction)
Rogue’s Hollow (mystery/horror)
Child Development and Behavior: Setting Limits with Your Strong-Willed Child, A Simple Guide To Eliminating Conflict, Aggressive Behavior and Backtalking Why yes, I do have a strong-willed child! It has one real review at least, so I’ll try it.

The Five Habits of Highly Successful Bonsai People

By mebe
Headhunters

By isanythingopen
Kids/YA
Smugglers at Whistling Sands (Adventure)
The Princelings and the Pirates (The Princelings of the East) (adventure)
Penelope and The Movie Star (A Penelope Mystery) (mystery)
ALTOR: The Shadow Rebellion (The Chronicles of Ageron) (SciFi/Fantasy)
The Chronicles of Grizzly High (Book One: Lost Souls) (fantasy time travel)
The Black Blade (A Gull Village Story) (fantasy, mythology)

Fantasy
VALENS RISE (alt world)
Absolution (Melancholy Wings) (Lucifers angels/demons)
Mrs. Beast (fairy tale – sort of)
PRINCESS BEAST (the sequel)

Science Fiction
Radix (The Radix Tetrad)
The Prometheus Effect (thriller)

NOT for kids! According to one of the reviews, contains a lot of vulgarity.
The Icarus Void

Historical Fiction
Growing Up on Route 66
Route 66 Kids
Route 66 Spring
Route 66 Chapel
Route 66 Sweetheart

Mystery/Thriller/Suspense
Pandora’s Succession

Fiction
Crash Gordon and the Mysteries of Kingsburg (conspiracies abound! Sounds like fun)

Horror
Ghoul Squad (3 in 1, supernatural thrillers)
Death Wears High Heels (again! Bonus!)
Alone in the Dark: Three Short Novels (the younger version – I would say 15 and up)
Tankbread (zombies)
IN DRACULA’S TIME

Non Fiction
The Face of Dysfunction
Out of the Maelstrom (Torn Trilogy)

By Mumto3boyz
Word to Word Free – A fun and addictive free word association game
Justin Bieber Song Lyrics

By Becky (beckygardens)

By MamaSylvia [One caution]
I tried to read Mrs. Beast and couldn’t even get through the first quarter of the book – massive typos and horribly obnoxious characters.
One worth checking out for those of you collecting for short people is The Spinning Wheel Secret. It’s actually not by Susanne Alleyn, who writes wonderful mysteries set in revolutionary France, but is part of a series that was written and published by her grandmother and is now getting a new life as ebooks. Alleyn participates in the HM group I follow and says all five of the series will be offered free over the next 3 months.

I read International Kittens of Mystery – it’s a cute concept dragged out to unreasonable lengths. But at free, it’s worth what you paid for it.
I also read and reviewed The Spinning Wheel Secret – good for older children, comparable to Bobbsey Twins in length and vocabulary, likable characters and the illustrations showed up well even on my Android phone but they are black-and-white so should look good on e-ink as well. I haven’t gotten the “your review is live” email yet, though.

By P Chaney
Across A Moonlit Sea (Pirate Wolf series). Action & adventure
A Ticket to Die For (Wild Onion, Ltd. Mystery). Mystery
Crashing Waves. Romance
The Trinity (Life Changing Series). Religion & spirituality

By BB
slim pickings for me today.
All you wanted to know about kittens
Bar Jokes

By bigdtc
Death Wears High Heels ya’ll, ignore the title here, a chick lit title is the worst possible choice for a series that is exactly the opposite in tone – this is a trilogy of dark urban fantasy books featuring a warlock, originally trade published, I have them in DTB – free is great price for this
The Ugly Little Puppy children’s fiction, loved the title
International Kittens of Mystery come on, it’s spy kittens – with pictures!
THE FAT CAT SH@#$#@$T FOR ANYONE WITH A CAT AND A LITTERBOX hope this works
Chihuahua Karma got that pet theme going; spoiled rich b-er, girl comes back as a dog to reassess her life
Heaven Sent chick lit again; young woman comes back to solve her own murder
Hellbender (Murder Ballads and Whiskey) if this halfway lives up to the great description, I’m stoked – Appalachian gothic; here is an example. It’s Johnny Cash with a fistful of copperheads singing the devil right back to hell.
The Midget’s House (A Circus Story…A Love Story…A Ghost Story) Marisa Delano is thrilled when she unexpectedly inherits the fairy tale-like cottage on the bay–until she learns that Lucinda Lacey, a sideshow midget who died on the property in 1924, still inhabits it.
At Risk of Being a Fool mystery; mature woman working part-time with high risk youth sets out to prove it wasn’t her kids
Leopard’s Daughter fantasy set in Africa with wereleopard; unusual location makes it worth the look
DESTINED, a novel of the Tarot contemporary romance with magic background
A Ticket to Die For (Wild Onion, Ltd. Mystery) mystery featuring female detective; 12 in the series convinced me to take a look
Rogue’s Hollow horror in a small town country store
Angels and Mistletoe (A lot of Romance a little Mystery) picked up for the Christmas pile

By babel
Death Wears High Heels – A 3-in-1 compilation of the Miranda trilogy story arc from the Rowan Gant Investigations supernatural thriller series: Love Is the Bond, All Acts of Pleasure, and The End of Desire.
The Glass Fence – contemporary fiction – Katie Jones struggles with an aloof GM and his entrenched, dysfunctional staff to start an employee rowing team at a luxury seaside hotel. (Sounds interesting. Acc. to the pr. desc., it was under consideration for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. The formatting in the “look inside” made for a difficult read [no para breaks or indents]; I hope the real ebook isn’t like this.)

Three by U.K. novelist Nicola Thorne. A pleasant change from the gruesome thrillers I seem to be picking up lately:
The Little Flowers – historical in that the story is set in 1942 – 15-year-old Andrea Mackintosh is sent to a convent boarding school in the north of England to escape the London Blitz.
The Pride of the School and other tales of convent life – An early work of Nicola Thorne never published before. She is primarily known as a novelist (50+ novels) and these eight tales, set in a convent school in the north of England shortly after the Second World War, are the only short stories she has ever written.
Return to Wuthering Heights – In this sequel to WH, Hareton Earnshaw (Catherine’s nephew) and Cathy Linton (Catherine’s daughter and namesake) share their predecessors’ passion for each other. However, is it possible for Catherine’s daughter to have remained untouched by her mother’s wild and tempestuous nature?

An FYI: Just Deceits: A Historical Courtroom Mystery was free Dec. 19, under a different ASIN: Just Deceits: A Historical Courtroom Mystery.

By angelmum3
Conversations With a Dead Man Historical Fiction (intrigued by reading the sample, read the reviews – honestly a reviewer that actually states he was paid for the review!) In spite of that – just reading the sample told by the “dead person” his history. his way. His headstone he is proud is different “I’m dead now, leave me alone”
Just Deceits: A Historical Courtroom Mystery Historical Mystery and Thriller
another intriguing look inside! “Author Michael Schein, a former professor of American legal history, drew on John Marshall’s actual trial notes in writing this novel that centers on the trial of the 18th century. Just Deceits shows how the remarkable defense team of wily Patrick Henry and ambitious John Marshall battled each other, their clients, the prosecution, and the truth itself, in an effort to save their clients from the gallows. “

By SHARON LOVES HER KINDLE
My picks for today—–
Ghoul Squad-the 1st 3 full novels in a paranormal mystery/thiller series
The Case Files of Thomas Carney-a paranormal mystery/thiller
Assignment: Drum Beat (Jack Tangiers Thriller)-the 3rd book this author has given away in his thiller series in the last 3 days
A Ticket to Die For (Wild Onion, Ltd. Mystery)-the 1st in the wild onion mystery series

By L. Wong
For the folks that picked up Death Wears High Heels, another book in the same series is free, Ghoul Squad. Ghoul Squad is apparently books 1 – 3 while Death Wears High Heels is a story arc that spans books 6 – 8.

By Reader
Also by the …author of Ghoul Squad and offered free today:
Merrie Axemas (Special Agent Constance Mandalay) Thriller Novella
Memoirs Of An Antihero
Memoirs of an Antihero tells the violent, emotional & darkly comedic tale of a single father fighting to keep his daughter alive at any cost. When Drew Blank learns his daughter, Moxie, may be dying from a terminal illness, he is overwhelmed by the enormity of the situation and the hospital bills to follow. Living in the forgotten city of Cross, Drew’s desperation drives him to get the money from the only people in town that have it: the criminals. He is initially introduced to the field of entrepreneurial vigilantism by sheer luck, being in the right place at the right time. After hospitalizing his targets and making off with a few thousand dollars, Drew realizes if he wants to continue to redistribute Cross’ wealth from the drug dealers’ pockets into his own, he will need a plan.

By James A. Anderson
Apocalypse Island
The Job Offer
Across A Moonlit Sea (Pirate Wolf series)

By pjf
The Little Flowers – historical fictions girl escaps the london blitz a convent
Route 66 Chapel people save a town from progress
The Blessed Blend scottish romance
The Princelings and the Pirates (The Princelings of the East) – ya adventure 2nd in series
Crashing Waves romance set in Myrtle Beach, with a crime bent
Oh Horror! 3 Stories to Tingle Your Spine
I Come Alone travel through thailand and india
The Folks stranded travelers take refuge in a haunted house
DESTINED, a novel of the Tarot fortuneteller finds love in a tarot shop
The Stolen Crystal (Beneath The Forest Floor) kids fantasy adventure
Return to Wuthering Heights Cathy’s daughter and Heathcliff’s son
Death Wears High Heels – trilogy of murder thrillers
Off the Grid (A Gerrit O’Rourke Novel) police detective lives off the grid to survive thriller
Eden sci fi scientists investigate a tree growing in the far solar system
Mondays in the Middle East: The Lighter Side of Arabian Nights – looks like a travel book from a midwest perspective
How to Speed Up Your Computer: A quick and easy guide to turbo charge your PC
Arkeepers: Episode One: Keepers – kids sci fi adventure
The Case Files of Thomas Carney – detective in the afterlife – great idea, I could see this as a tv series
Smugglers at Whistling Sands kids adventure in seaside north wales
Tales from the Coast: Pithy Parables of Getting by in the Not-So-Golden State — essays about california life, post bubble
Mr. A. A. Corn (The Tales Of Wooffer’s Woods)
Route 66 Spring message from a bottle changes kids lives
The Stones Cry Out! (The Rosanada Trilogy) – lit fic about catholic priest
Magic Wings – hang gliding experiences
Just Deceits: A Historical Courtroom Mystery powerful courtroom trial in 1793 Virginia
Playpits Park MI5 prospect finds a mystery clearing a house
The Pride of the School and other tales of convent life tales of a Convent school in Britain — also see little flowers free today
Forgetful of Strangers – NYT reporter goes to cover murder in a small southern town
One Way Up, The North Downs. (One Way Up.) – Walking tour of Britian’s North downs
Giving Away the Planet: The Real Cause of Environmental Destruction – some sort of environmental treatise going back 10,000 years? sounded interesting
Hellbender (Murder Ballads and Whiskey) – murder – the description was well written, looks like some sort of suspense thriller in the back hills
Foul Deeds Will Rise murder mystery in a sleepy surrey town
Brother’s Keeper, a novella — good and bad brothers mystery thriller
The Prometheus Effect – UFO investigative reporter and NASA astronaut investigate
Rosanada Requiem (The Rosanada Trilogy) — nun murder mystery set in a catholic church
The New Robber Barons – another retelling of the 2008 financial crisis (aka too big to fail)

By Sweet Diva Reader Marla
Route 66 Chapel (I have a few more by this author from the route 66 series)- Non-Fiction/History/Travel
Assignment: Drum Beat (Jack Tangiers Thriller) (I have 2 others from this series that were also free recently)- Thriller
Out of the Maelstrom (Torn Trilogy) (I believe I got the first in this series for free when it was offered)- Non-Fiction /Literary Narrative/Domestic Violence/Memoir
A Ticket to Die For (Wild Onion, Ltd. Mystery)- Mystery/Women Sleuths
The Little Flowers- Contemporary Fiction
Death Wears High Heels- Horror/Ghosts
Ghoul Squad- Horror/Ghosts
Penelope and The Movie Star (A Penelope Mystery)- Mysteries, Espionage, & Detectives
The Case Files of Thomas Carney- Horror/Occult
Route 66 Spring- Non-Fiction/History/Travel
Rogue’s Hollow- Thrillers/ Suspense
Just Deceits: A Historical Courtroom Mystery- Historical/Legal
Escana- Epic/Fantasy
Growing Up on Route 66- Non-Fiction/History/Travel
Forgetful of Strangers- Thrillers/Suspense
Hellbender (Murder Ballads and Whiskey)- Thrillers/Suspense
Witches- Science Fiction
Alone in the Dark: Three Short Novels- Horror
Brother’s Keeper, a novella- Horror
Route 66 Kids- Non-Fiction/History/Travel
Extinguishing October- Literary Fiction/Family Saga
I also added:
Unicorn on Speed Dial- Fantasy/Contemporary which is offered for free again. I’d missed it the last time out. This author is also offering another book for free today At Risk of Being a Fool.

By Northern Lights
Maria Schneider on the “What are you reading on your kindle” February poll just recommended Unicorn on Speed Dial which is apparently free again today – I passed it over last time because of the horrible cover (though I like the title:)) but her review of it the poll thread and on her blog (which I recommend, too – bear mountain books) made me grab it this time!

By AmeliaAT
A Ticket to Die For (Wild Onion, Ltd. Mystery) by David J. Walker
In this, the first book in the highly acclaimed and long-running “Wild Onion, Ltd.” series, private eye Kirsten’s client is an ethically challenged lawyer who’s about to be disbarred, or have his “ticket” taken away. Kirsten enlists the reluctant help of her husband Dugan, also a lawyer, and the two of them head for a sleazy adult bookstore to interview a witness who can exonerate Kirsten’s client. When they get there they find the witness, but she’s dead in her chair, her neck broken. Turns out the client wasn’t totally open with Kirsten, and the case is a whole lot more complicated, and dangerous, than it seemed.

Late yesterday, I picked up this one, and it’s still free today:
A Violent Act (Sister Agnes) by Alison Joseph
Sister Agnes is now, as Father Julius solemnly teases her, a `fully paid-up’ member of the convent, but any thoughts that life might go more smoothly with her final vows taken are soon proved incorrect.
Delighted to have escaped the oppressive confines of life inside the convent, Agnes is back in her own flat, working at the Order’s hostel for the homeless. But before long things take a turn for the worse: a young and vulnerable resident, Abbie, is found dead, and the fragile peace is shattered. Though it looks like suicide, questions are raised about the mysterious drug dealer Murchison’s influence over Abbie and the other young hostel-dwellers. What, or who, pushed Abbie to end her life? As increasingly sinister incidents unfold, the finger of blame seems to be pointing right at Murchison.
But Agnes has more than that on her mind. Forced to confront the foundations of her faith, she is plagued by doubts planted by Abbie in their last conversation before she died – did she become a nun to run away from real life? Whether she likes it or not, real life soon catches up in the form of gentlemanly American geologist Dr Bretton Laing bearing news of her long-dead father’s last years.
She cannot run from her past for ever…

By R. D. Johnson (Randy)
The Silent Caddie: The Way To Better Golf
The New Robber Barons (Janet M. Tavakoli, Economics, Follow-on to “Dear Mr. Buffett”)
Moving House by Yourself – Helpful Hints
How to Move House – A Simple Guide to Packing, Lifting & Shifting (Same author, same cover photo. This one is a lot larger)
The Perfect Stock: How a 7000% move was set-up, started and finished in an astonishing 52 weeks (Brad Koteshwar, Investing, The bankers got rich, and the rest of us didn’t.)
The Glass Fence (Barry James Hickey, Contemporary Fiction, “To reclaim her heart and spirit, Katie Jones struggles with an aloof General Manager and his entrenched staff to start an employee rowing team at a luxury seaside hotel. All she has to do is find a willing team from a dysfunctional group of earnest employees and solve the mysteries of The Glass Fence. Readers loved Katie Jones in Chasing God’s River. Now she’s back in The Glass Fence.”
Arizona State Parks (Arizona State Parks and it’s Locations) (Ralph Rogers, Travel, Only 96 KB)
Romeo & Juliet: Separation of Powers (Chris Laurence, Romance, “Juliet is the daughter of the most powerful man in the world. Romeo is the son of the Senate Majority Leader standing in his way. The Capulets are a large, church-going Republican family from Colorado; the Montagues more urbane Democrats from California. Romeo is smitten by Juliet’s country girl ways, while Juliet is impressed by Romeo’s apparent sophistication as a long-time Washington resident. President Capulet’s chief of staff Arnold Meyer works to undermine their relationship, seeing Romeo as a plant by Senator Montague to worm his way inside the White House and the good graces of the first family. Is love between the leading families of the two parties possible in modern Washington, or are Romeo and Juliet doomed to tragedy? )
Electrical Generation and Distribution Systems and Power Quality Disturbances (Gregorio Romero Rey, Technology)
Coming About (Jan Tilley, Romance, “Rachel Robinson is drifting along comfortably. She’s completely unaware that her entire world is about to be turned upside down. Rachel was not prepared for the pain as her only daughter leaves for college. Her suffering is only compounded when her husband asks for a divorce. With no place else to go, Rachel turns to her new friend, Sadie. As the women unveil secrets from their past, it triggers a chain of events that will change their lives forever. With nothing else to lose, Rachel sets sail on an unforgettable journey where she finds that true love has been waiting for her all along. Coming About will speak to any heart that’s ever had a change of course.)

I STOPPED THERE, on Message Thread page 9, and there are 16 pages of suggestions, many tend to be duplicates after 9 pages.

To continue on with the forum thread directly, go to kfree0219 to get the other 7 pages of forumners listing what they felt looked interesting.

I’ve sifted out and gathered several sublistings under each name for who made them and there are over 190 book titles included here (a few are duplicates)

There is always the Kindle Daily Deal for the day, of course, so check that out at any time.

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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

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

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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 News 2/9 – Penguin Quits OverDrive & public libraries

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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.

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

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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, itjavascript:void(0)’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.

*Click* to Return to the HOME PAGE. Or click on the web browser’s BACK button

Check out the original source here.

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