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What to Do With an Eight Year Old Android Tablet?

15 January, 201916 January, 2019e-Reading Hardware, Tips and Tricks11 Comments

I have been covering Android tablets on this blog since the very beginning. I wrote about the first pretty awful Pandigital tablets when they were still locked down as...

How to Cancel Your Kindle Unlimited Membership

12 January, 201912 January, 2019Kindle (platform), Tips and TricksLeave a comment

Amazon's Kindle Unlimited launched in July 2014. It costs anywhere from $3 to $11.50, depending on the market, and provides limited access to a catalog of over one million ebooks,...

How to Cancel a Kindle Blog or Magazine Subscription

2 January, 20192 January, 2019Kindle (platform), Tips and TricksOne Comment

For as long as Amazon has sold ebooks on the Kindle, they have also sold subscriptions to blogs and other periodicals.The blogs usually cost $0.00 to $1.99 per month,...

How to Use Kindle’s New Custom Font Feature

2 January, 20192 January, 2019Kindle, Tips and Tricks6 Comments

In June 2018 Amazon released an update for the Kindle ereaders that gave users the option of installing their own fonts. This feature is available on all current Kindles from...

How to Tell Whether Your Local Walmart Has Kobo eReaders in Stock

19 October, 201819 October, 2018e-Reading Hardware, Tips and Tricks6 Comments

Earlier this week a friend asked if I knew a way to tell which Walmart stores had ebook displays. I didn't have a good answer for him at that time;...

Making Your First Infographic Is Easier Than You Think

19 August, 201810 January, 2019Infographic, Tips and TricksLeave a comment

A reader left a comment on last night's infographic post, and I thought it deserved its own post. Mark Williams asked: The possibilities are endless, but can you point...

How to Tell if You Need to Install a Security Update On Your Older Barnes & Noble Nook

22 June, 201822 June, 2018Barnes & Noble, e-Reading Hardware, Tips and Tricks2 Comments

Here is a quick PSA to ensure that Nook owners make sure their devices get the latest security update. Barnes & Noble has announced that it is updating its...

How to Get Night Mode (White Text & Black Background) on Kobo eReaders

28 April, 20186 June, 2018e-Reading Hardware, Kobo, Tips and Tricks5 Comments

Kobo gives readers a nearly infinite number of different ways to tweak their reading experience so it's perfect. We can change the margins to either leave a pleasant amount...

How Do I Borrow a Book From the Kindle Owner’s Lending Library?

2 February, 20182 February, 2018Kindle (platform), Tips and TricksLeave a comment

The Kindle Owner's Lending Library is one of the lesser known benefits of Amazon Prime where Kindle-owning Prime members can borrow a free ebook each month from a catalog of...

How to Fix Your 2017 Amazon Fire Tablet When It Stops Showing Google Play Apps

5 January, 20185 January, 2018e-Reading Hardware, Fire, Tips and Tricks6 Comments

A new bug has shown up on late model Fire tablets this week, but luckily a solution was discovered shortly afterward. A number of users have reported that they were...

How to Design a Fantasy or SF Book Cover With Canva in Five Minutes or Less

5 November, 201726 November, 2017content creation, Self-Pub, Tips and Tricks19 Comments

No matter the topic or genre, every ebook needs a killer cover. It's the first thing that a reader sees and the right ebook cover - or rather the...

How to Save $169 While Setting up the Yoast SEO Plugin for an Author Website

2 October, 20173 December, 2017Tips and Tricks4 Comments

Author's note: This post originally started out as the script and accompanying text for a video on configuring the Yoast SEO plugin. By the time I got done writing...

Author Blogging 102: a Practical Guide to Developing Your Weekly or Monthly Link Post

26 September, 20173 December, 2017Self-Pub, Tips and Tricks, Web Publishing7 Comments

Content curation (or as I prefer to call it, "link posts") is a great way for authors to help both their readers and other writers by one, pointing...

You Can Install Google Play on the Latest Fire Tablets in Less Than 5 Minutes

24 September, 201726 September, 2017e-Reading Hardware, e-Reading Software, Fire, Google, Tips and Tricks19 Comments

It used to be that installing Google Play and other Google apps on the Amazon Kindle Fire tablet required rooting the tablet, fiddling around with a file manager, and...

How to Get the Most Out of Your Dasung Paperlike, or Other E-ink Monitors

3 September, 201714 February, 2018e-Reading Hardware, Tips and Tricks6 Comments

E-ink monitors like the Dasung Paperlike Pro are still a niche product, and an expensive one at that. This unfortunate combination means that users will have shelled out a...

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