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What is Goodreads?

by Barbara J. Feldman April 1, 2013
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Goodreads is a social network that revolves around book reviews and recommendations. Founded in 2007, Goodreads has 16 million members, 30,000 book clubs and over 23 million book reviews. And Goodreads recently announced that they are being acquired by Amazon. For me, the best part of Goodreads is their recommendation engine. Rate just twenty books, [...]

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How to Sync an Audiobook with a Kindle eBook

by Barbara J. Feldman December 10, 2012
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For many years now, I’ve been an Audible member, listening to audiobooks in my car. I’m also a dedicated Kindle reader, reading (mostly) on my Android. So I was pretty excited to test out the new Amazon feature that automatically syncs audiobooks with Kindle books, so that I can pick up wherever I was, no [...]

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Amazon Announces Kindle Fire Subscription for Kids

by Barbara J. Feldman December 7, 2012
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I am over-the-moon excited by Amazon’s new Kindle Fire content subscription service for kids 3 to 8. FreeTime Unlimited offers a nearly unlimited supply of apps, videos and ebooks for a low monthly fee of just $2.99 for Prime members. (You already are a Prime member, right?) The service includes Parental Control over content and [...]

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How to Share Your Amazon Prime Account

by Barbara J. Feldman July 24, 2012
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Amazon Prime is an annual membership that provides free two-day shipping on qualifying Amazon purchases for you and four “household members.” What this membership-sharing means is that you can provide Amazon Prime shipping benefits to your parents, siblings and friends. Yes, friends are included. The “household” definition is very loose, and the only check in [...]

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Where to Find Free Kindle Apps for Your Device

by Barbara J. Feldman March 20, 2012

Kindle books are growing in popularity every day, and with the regular promotional sales, are often an excellent bargain when compared to paper-based books. For example, I recently picked up “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” by Jonathan Safran Foer for just $0.25 on a promotion day. Best of all, you do not need to own [...]

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Amazon Releases Price Check App

by Barbara J. Feldman December 20, 2011

Amazon.com released their Price Check app for Android and iPhone last week. Using either a scanned bar code, a snapped photo, typed input or voice command, the app will display product prices from Amazon.com (including all its online merchants.) In addition to reading reviews and buying directly from the app, you have the option of [...]

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