Lately, particularly on the 7th of this month, The Guardian participated in the world’s third favorite book contest past time, giving a helping hand to the expected death of the book writing as a profession.

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Tip of the week. Get new Google Reader articles delivered to your Kindle once a day/week/month

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 That’s pretty easy actually and can be described in few simple steps: First, you need to bundle your favorite subscriptions (or all subscriptions) at http://www.google.com/reader/view/#bundle-creator-page. If you have your subscriptions at Google reader organized into folders, I’d suggest to make a separate bundle for each folder, this will make the resulting periodical better structured. To […]

Tip of the week. Using SendtoReader on Kindle Fire

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I guess most of you have alredy noticed that SendtoReader’s addons page now contains an application for the Kindle Fire tablet. That’s exactly the same application called “DroidToReader” I wrote about few months ago. But this time it’s hosted on my server, so you can install it without a problem to any Kindle Fire – no […]

Tip of the week. Kindle book with table of contents out of a set of web pages

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Hellow everyone, have a great winter holidays! :) A short preamble: one of these days I’ve got a problem – it was necessary to send several web pages (a series of publications from one of my favorite sites) to my Kindle reader. As you might know that’s not a big deal and can easily be […]

Kindle vs Nook – the comparison

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There are many similarities and differences between the Kindle and Nook tablets. It’s a bit like comparing cars or other giant corporations who strive to be the best in their particular market. For example, comparing a Chevrolet and a Ford. Each has various features and benefits that make one more appealing to people than the […]

Daily digest

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Daily Digest is one of those features I always dreamed about… and one of those people were asking me about from the very beginning of SENDtoREADER. So, what is Digest and what is it for? In short it’s a new type of Periodicals for Kindle which does a very simple and very helpful thing – […]

The “Recommend” button: the first little step on the way to more social webapp

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Hi everyone! I’m sure those of you who are using S2R regularly have already noticed the changes I’ve recently made in the user page interface. I’m talking about the “Recommend to other readers” buttons in your “sent recently” lists and about “Recommended links” – the list of articles recommended by other readers. So, what’s the […]

Top Startup blogs on your Kindle

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Short announcement: a new Kindle periodical – “Top Startup blogs” is now available on subscriptions.  Each issue contains the most recent posts from the following blogs: FastCompany The Next Web – Entrepreneur The Next Web – Top stories Guy Kawasaki blog VentureBeat  Startup Lessons Learned OnStartups Feel free to subscribe or send last issue to your Kindle.

How to send multiple web pages as a single book to Kindle

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The following tip will be helpful to those who often send series of web pages to Kindle and who hates the process of deletion of needless docs from the device. I assume you already know what is Sendtoreader Compose and how to send a text to Kindle using it. To send a series of web […]

Read top Kindle blogs on your Kindle

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For those people who, like me, want to know everything about Kindle and other e-reading devices, who want to be informed about every single event in this industry, here is the list of my favorite blogs about Amazon and Kindles. KindleWorld  I love my Kindle TeleRead Unofficial Kindle Blog Kindle Daily Post The Digital Reader Kindle […]

Periodical formatting for SendToReader Periodicals

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Great news for everyone who is using S2R Periodicals or just going to try this RSS to Kindle service. I’m glad to inform you that after a lot ot research and hard work,  S2R Periodicals have got periodical formatting! So, by default all your periodicals will now be formatted like Kindle magazines and newspapers. That does not […]

Kindle Fire – a replacement for eInk Kindles?

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Great news! Kindle Fire has just been unveiled. You can even preoder it at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0051VVOB2 for $199. We’ve finally got a tablet on the market which can compete with Apple iPad. At least in popularity. With a 7-inch display, the Fire is about half the size of the iPad. And it’s also less than half the […]

Sendtoreader addon for FireFox 6.x

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Just a quick notice: I’ve updated the Sendtoreader for Firefox addon’s settings at mozilla.org, so now the addon should work correctly in FF3.0 – FF6.x. It was tested today in Firefox 6.0 for Windows, and no problem was found. So, if your copy of the addon is still inactive in your Firefox addon manager, please […]