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...Continue reading
Category: Tips and Tricks
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...Continue reading
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,...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
Seven Places to Listen to Free Audiobooks
The internet is overflowing with nearly as many free audiobooks as ebooks. There are dozens if not hundreds of sites with free audiobooks, and I have...Continue reading
How to Upload eBooks and Documents to Your Kindle Account
For over three years now, Amazon has offered Kindle users free cloud storage for their ebooks. This Kindle Cloud supports many of the same reading features that you...Continue reading
How to See the eBooks You’ve Borrowed in Prime Reading and Kindle Unlimited
In some ways Kindle Unlimited is a victim of its own success. It offers a great value to readers, so much so that there are many...Continue reading