Millions of people have smart speakers like the Echo. They are great tools that let you schedule tasks, play audiobooks, look up basic info, and what have you. Alas,...
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Category: Tips and Tricks
Ten Cool Tricks for Calibre
I was setting up my new laptop this weekend (well, newer) when I realized I hadn't updated calibre in forever. Calibre is well known for being the best free...
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How to Read at Night on Your Tablet, iPad, Kindle Fire, or Smartphone
Researchers have been saying for years and years that reading an on LCD screen late at night will disrupt your sleep, and techies have been working nearly as long...
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Alexa Can Now Manage (Some of) Your Audible and Kindle Content
Amazon recently updated the Manage Your Content and Devices page on Amazon.com with a new notice that reads "Using Alexa, you can now send ebooks, audiobooks, personal documents, etc.,...
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Four Chrome Extensions for Getting the Most Out of Kindle Cloud Reader
When was the last time you used Amazon's cloud reading app? Did you know there were third-party extensions for it? I was updating the Kindle tools posts a few...
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Six Default Amazon Security Settings You Can Change for More Privacy
So as you may know, my mother is on my Amazon account. (There is a point to this anecdote, trust me.) We mainly use it to read ebooks; I...
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How to Remove Old Kindles and Kindle Apps From Your Account on Amazon
In the nine years I have published this blog, I have tested dozens Kindles and mobile devices. While that was a lot of fun, it also caused a huge...
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How to Delete eBooks from Your Kindle Account on Amazon.com
As you may know, for the past seven years or so I have shared my Kindle account with my mother. She is a voracious reader who is on the...
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A Dozen Tools for Managing Your Kindle Notes and Highlights
Amazon's Kindle is a great reading platform with a number of useful annotation features, but sometimes it's not enough. I recently updated my four-year-old post on Kindle annotation tools, and...
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How to Download Your Kindle Notes and Highlights and Export Them (Updated for 2018)
Amazon has a great reading platform in the Kindle, but sometimes it's not enough. Sometimes I need to take the notes I make in a Kindle ebook and use...
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How to Make Your iPad or iPhone Read eBooks Aloud
Audiobooks are fun to listen to during a commute, or a jog, or any time your hands are busy, but they often cost a lot and you can't always...
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How to Send Web Content Directly to Your Kindle
We all spend a lot of time reading in our web browsers, but sometimes you want to finish reading a particularly long article in Evernote, Kindle, or another platform where...
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How to Add Books to Your iPad and iPhone Without Connecting to iTunes
Adding third-party ebooks to Apple Books or one of the other ebook apps on your iDevice used to be quite painful. You had to use one of Apple's proprietary...
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How to Send an Epub eBook to Your Kindle by Email
Amazon offers a free conversion service where you can send documents to your Kindle, but there is a problem: it doesn't work with Epub files. Even though there are services...
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How to Return a Kindle eBook You Bought by Mistake
Did you know you can return any Kindle ebook or digital comic that you purchased? It doesn't matter whether you accidentally pocket-bought a title, or got it at a...
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