eReader – Page 2

February 6, 2011

How to Borrow eBooks From Strangers Using the Kindle Lending Club

One of the great features of the Amazon Kindle is the ability for users to loan books to each other. Eligible Kindle books can be loaned once for a 14 day period. The borrower doesn’t even need to own a Kindle, as long as he or she has a device that supports the Kindle app. This includes PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, Blackberry, and Android devices. If you don’t have enough friends with Kindle eBooks to make borrowing worthwhile, you’re in luck, as the Kindle Lending Club is an online service where you can lend and borrow Kindle eBooks to and from complete strangers.

January 9, 2011

How To Turn Your Kindle Or Nook Into an RSS Reader

The Kindle and other eReaders are great for reading books, but you don’t have to stop there. With a bit of initial work, you can turn your Kindle or Nook into a competent reader of your RSS feeds from Google Reader. G:RSS-Web is a service that allows you to access your Google Reader feeds in your eReader’s web browser, in a format designed for your device.

Go to a G:RSS-Web address in your device’s browser (on the Kindle, you can find your browser in the Experimental section), where you’ll be walked through setting up your account. G:RSS-Web uses OAuth for accessing your Google account. On the Kindle, the device that I’ve used with G:RSS-Web, you use keys to navigate through your feeds. Typically, each link on the page has a keyboard letter associated with it. Hit the key, and load that link.

G:RSS-Web won’t have you rushing to throw away your computer or your mobile phone, but it is definitely serviceable. It is also free. Do you access Google Reader on your Kindle? If so, let us know how in the comments.

G:RSS-Web

January 4, 2011

How to Reset the Furthest Read Location On Your Kindle

UPDATE 4/26/12: Amazon now offers a way to reset the furthest page location from within your account. For details on this new method, check out our post. According to some commenters, below, the new method only works on Amazon-purchased books. So, for imported books, the method below could still be helpful.

One of the great features of Amazon’s Kindle eReader is Whispersync, which will sync your reading progress across multiple devices. For example, you can stop reading in the Kindle for iPad app, and pick up where you left off in the Kindle app on your Android device. A problem arises, though, when you want to reread a book that either you or someone else has already read. Whispersync will remember the end of the book as the “furthest read location,” defeating your ability to pick up where you left off. It takes a one-time workaround, but you can reset the Kindle’s “furthest read location.”

Category: eReader (page 2 of 2)

How to Borrow eBooks From Strangers Using the Kindle Lending Club

How To Turn Your Kindle Or Nook Into an RSS Reader

How to Reset the Furthest Read Location On Your Kindle

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