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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Category: Tips and Tricks
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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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 pulled together a...
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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 get with ebooks...
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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 readers who have...
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How to Disable Whispersync (Kindle eBook Syncing)
When Amazon launched the Kindle in 2007, one of its many killer features was the effortless way that the ereader automatically synced your reading location, bookmarks, notes, and highlights...
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What to Do With an Eight Year Old Android Tablet?
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...
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How to Cancel Your Kindle Unlimited Membership
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,...
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How to Cancel a Kindle Blog or Magazine Subscription
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,...
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How to Use Kindle’s New Custom Font Feature
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...
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How to Tell Whether Your Local Walmart Has Kobo eReaders in Stock
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;...
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Making Your First Infographic Is Easier Than You Think
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...
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How to Tell if You Need to Install a Security Update On Your Older Barnes & Noble Nook
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...
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How to Get Night Mode (White Text & Black Background) on Kobo eReaders
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...
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