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Daily Links and Deals: Two Workarounds for Missing Book Length Dots with New Kindle Update

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daily_links_1Daily Links for Monday, March 7, 2016:

Two Workarounds for Missing Book Length Dots with New Kindle Update (The Ebook Reader) –  Yes, the new update is that bad….

Onyx Boox Max eReader Up For Pre-Order – 13″ Screen, Android, 585 Euros (The Digital Reader)

Welcome to Canada, American techies! And, yes, we love e-books (Teleread) – Hysterically funny piece of facts we should know before we say “If ___ wins, I am moving to Canada.”

Scottish chapbooks now online! (National Library of Scotland) – These are absolutely delightful, especially the ones for children!

Apple users, beware: First live ransomware targeting Macs found ‘in the wild’ (CNET) –  Time to get rid of the idea that MAC users are safer from this stuff than PC users.

Deals of the Day:

Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deals includes four books in the Dominic Grey series for $1.99 each.

As part of Today’s Deals, Amazon is offering a Logitech Harmony Ultimate Remote with Customizable Touch Screen and Closed Cabinet RF Control – Black (915-000201) for $179.99. One of these smart remotes is on my tech wish list so I can replace the 5 remotes sitting on the coffee table, LOL!

And, Amazon is still offering $20 off the Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite and the Kindle for Kids Bundle. You can also save $30 on the Fire HD 6 – it’s only $69.99. I own 2 of these and love them –  my review is  here.

The Barnes and Noble Nook Daily Find is Two Across by Jeffrey Bartsch for $1.99. The Romance Daily Find is Hard to Come By (Hard Ink Series #3) by Laura Kaye for $1.99.

Kobo’s Daily Deal is Full Throttle: Six Thrillers by Robert Swartwood for $2.99.

iTunes’ Weekly Bestsellers Under $4 includes The Big Kitty by Clare Donally for $1.99.

(A note on Daily Deals: All prices current at the time of posting and subject to change. Most items marked Daily Deals are good for only the day posted.

Many large promotions have discount pricing that is set by the publisher. This usually means that titles can be found at a discount price across most platforms (with iTunes sometimes being the exception). If you have a favorite retailer you like to patronize, check the title on that website. There is a good chance that they will be matching the sale price.)

Daily Links are interesting links I discover as I go about my online day. The frequency and number of links posted depend upon the daily news. I also post other, different links of interest on Twitter and on the Google Plus eBook Evangelist Page.

Daily Links and Deals: Having multiple online identities is more normal than you think

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daily_links_1Daily Links for Sunday, March 6, 2016:

Having multiple online identities is more normal than you think (Engadget) – Fascinating. And I thought it was just me….

Pets’ electronic medical records can fetch health data (Computer World) –  I was pretty excited by the idea of this app. For pet owners, the digital side of things hasn’t quite caught up yet.

Remember Peeple? It finally launches on Monday, but its niceness is a front (The Next Web) – It’s baack! But now you have to pay for the negativity. *Makes vague gesture intended to ward off evil*

New search site says it can find that movie where Sean Connery wears red pants (TechHive) – Can’t remember the title of a movie? This might help. Now, if they only had one of these for books.

Serial Reader for iPhone Dishes Out Short Snippets of Classic Fiction Daily (Lifehacker) Free classic reads in bite sized portions!

Deals of the Day:

Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deals includes The Songs of Distant Earth (Arthur C. Clarke Collection) by Arthur C. Clarke for $1.99. You can also find a selection of 50 Kindle Book Deals for $2 Each.

In Today’s Deals, Amazon is also offering $20 off the Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite and the Kindle for Kids Bundle. You can also save $30 on the Fire HD 6 – it’s only $69.99. I own 2 of these and love them. You can read my review here.

The Barnes and Noble Nook Daily Find is Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt’s Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York by Richard Zacks for $1.99. The Romance Daily Find is Accelerate: A Hotwired Novel by Tracy Wolff for 99 cents.

Kobo’s Daily Deal is Highland Velvet by Jude Deveraux for $1.99.

iTunes’ Weekly Bestsellers Under $4 includes Nocturnal by Scott Sigler for $1.99. If you like have never read Scott Sigler, you are in for a treat!

(A note on Daily Deals: All prices current at the time of posting and subject to change. Most items marked Daily Deals are good for only the day posted.

Many large promotions have discount pricing that is set by the publisher. This usually means that titles can be found at a discount price across most platforms (with iTunes sometimes being the exception). If you have a favorite retailer you like to patronize, check the title on that website. There is a good chance that they will be matching the sale price.)

Daily Links are interesting links I discover as I go about my online day. The frequency and number of links posted depend upon the daily news. I also post other, different links of interest on Twitter and on the Google Plus eBook Evangelist Page.

Daily Links and Deals: If You’re Reading This, You Didn’t Observe National Unplugging Day

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daily_links_1Daily Links for day, March 1, 2016:

If You’re Reading This, You Didn’t Observe National Unplugging Day (ReCode) – Um …. Looks like I missed that memo….

Amazon decides its users deserve encryption after all (The Next Web) – It is not coming until spring, but until then, you can still roll back to the previous version of the OS.

Google is letting celebrities and businesses post directly to search results (The Verge) –  Is this going to create a two-tiered SEO system?

Bumble enters the friend zone with new BFF mode (The Next Web) – Changing from a dating app to a friend finder – this is an interesting experiment.

11 tips and tricks to make yourself read more (Mashable) – How many of these do you already use? 🙂

Deals of the Day:

Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deals includes Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court by John Wooden for $1.99.

The Barnes and Noble Nook Daily Find is  The Cold Cold Ground (Sean Duffy Series #1) by Adrian McKinty for $2.99.  The Romance Daily Find is Black Rose by Jenna Ryan for 99 cents.

Kobo’s Daily Deal is One Evening in Paris by Nicolas Barreau for $2.99.

iTunes’ Weekly Bestsellers Under $4 includes Super Cleanse by Adina Niemerow for $1.99.

(A note on Daily Deals: All prices current at the time of posting and subject to change. Most items marked Daily Deals are good for only the day posted.

Many large promotions have discount pricing that is set by the publisher. This usually means that titles can be found at a discount price across most platforms (with iTunes sometimes being the exception). If you have a favorite retailer you like to patronize, check the title on that website. There is a good chance that they will be matching the sale price.)

Daily Links are interesting links I discover as I go about my online day. The frequency and number of links posted depend upon the daily news. I also post other, different links of interest on Twitter and on the Google Plus eBook Evangelist Page.

Daily Links and Deals: How-To: Manage your ‘digital afterlife’ while you’re still here to do it

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daily_links_1Daily Links for Friday, March 4, 2016:

UCLA Library works with faculty to cut students’ cost for course materials (UCLA) – This sounds like a great program. I wish they had something like this when I was in college.

The Untold Story of How Magazine Media is Winning (Folio) – This is a  fascinating look at the magazine industry in the digital age.

AT&T is bringing internet-style targeted advertising to TV (Engadget) – Like ads chasing us across websites wasn’t bad enough?

How-To: Manage your ‘digital afterlife’ while you’re still here to do it (9 to 5 Google) –  With so much more time being spent online, we have to think now about managing digital assets and our digital afterlife.

B&N is Shutting Down One of Its Top Three Digital Blunders on 15 March (The Digital Reader) – Goodbye NOOK UK, Goodbye NOOK Video and Goodbye NOOK Apps. Some great insights from Nate at The Digital Reader on why.

Deals of the Day:

Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deals includes Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War by Karen Abbott for $1.99.

The Barnes and Noble Nook Daily Find is Died in the Wool (Knitting Mystery Series #1) by Mary Kruger for $1.99. The Romance Daily Find is Nowhere but Here (Thunder Road Series #1) by Katie McGarry for $1.99.

Kobo’s Daily Deal is A Darker Domain by Val McDermid for 99 cents.

iTunes’ Weekly Bestsellers Under $4 includes Black Water Rising by Attica Locke for 99 cents.

Google is having a Read up to 50% Free special. You can read half the book as a sample before you decide to buy. (This is not exactly my idea of a deal, but maybe for some people ….)

(A note on Daily Deals: All prices current at the time of posting and subject to change. Most items marked Daily Deals are good for only the day posted.

Many large promotions have discount pricing that is set by the publisher. This usually means that titles can be found at a discount price across most platforms (with iTunes sometimes being the exception). If you have a favorite retailer you like to patronize, check the title on that website. There is a good chance that they will be matching the sale price.)

Daily Links are interesting links I discover as I go about my online day. The frequency and number of links posted depend upon the daily news. I also post other, different links of interest on Twitter and on the Google Plus eBook Evangelist Page.

Daily Links and Deals: $17 smartwatch sending data back to China shows perils of buying unknown brands

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daily_links_1Daily Links for day, March 1, 2016:

$17 smartwatch sending data back to China shows perils of buying unknown brands [Video] (9 to 5 Google) – This is a really scary story!

Digital history: Archbishops’ Registers go online for first time (Yorkshire Post) – This looks like an amazing historical collection of medieval and early modern work.

Want to learn a programming language? Code School is dropping its paywall this weekend (TNW) Free for 48 hours. Want to try learning to code?

B&N Reports Store Revenues down, Nook Revenues Down 33% Last Quarter (The Digital Reader) – And they are still not giving up – apparently….

Apple creates a general support channel on Twitter (Techcrunch) – Finally! Glad to see this as Twitter is many people’s go-to place for help.

Comcast accused of violating NBC merger commitment and net neutrality rule (Ars Technica) –  This may lay the groundwork for really defining these types of services.

Deals of the Day:

Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deals includes three books in the Hannah Swensen series by best-selling author Joanne Fluke as well as books in the  Chronicles of Nick Book series by Sherrilyn Kenyon.

The Barnes and Noble Nook Daily Find is Spies, Sadists and Sorcerers: The history you weren’t taught in school by Dominic Selwood for $1.99. The Romance Daily Find is Moonlight Masquerade (London Encounters Book #1): A Regency Romance by Ruth Axtell for 99 cents.

Kobo’s Daily Deal is The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom for $1.99.

iTunes’ Weekly Bestsellers Under $4 includes Death Before Decaf: A Java Jive Mystery by Carolyn Fardig for $2.99.

(A note on Daily Deals: All prices current at the time of posting and subject to change. Most items marked Daily Deals are good for only the day posted.

Many large promotions have discount pricing that is set by the publisher. This usually means that titles can be found at a discount price across most platforms (with iTunes sometimes being the exception). If you have a favorite retailer you like to patronize, check the title on that website. There is a good chance that they will be matching the sale price.)

Daily Links are interesting links I discover as I go about my online day. The frequency and number of links posted depend upon the daily news. I also post other, different links of interest on Twitter and on the Google Plus eBook Evangelist Page.

Daily Links and Deals: Tech to re-energize your reading

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daily_links_1Daily Links for Wednesday, March 2, 2016:

Download All 36 of Jan Vermeer’s Beautifully Rare Paintings (Most in Stunning High Resolution) (Open Culture) – Wonderful digital art collection!

The average price for a digital newspaper subscription: $3.11 a week (Nieman Lab) – How does that price sit with you? Too high? Too Low? Rather have surveys or ads?

Tech to re-energize your reading (The Next Web) Interesting tools to revitalize your digital reading.

Pro tip: How to wrap your headphones so they never tangle (The Verge) – Okay, solved that now…

An app for taking notes while you read? (Teleread) – This sounds like it could be great for assisting in writing book reviews.

No More Voicemail is an app that kills voicemail so callers have to text you instead (Techcrunch) – I guess some people really hate voicemail.

Arta Tech Closes Its eReader Store, Cuts Ties to Its Supplier (The Digital Reader) – This makes things interesting for folks who bought from a third-party seller (like Amazon).

Deals of the Day:

Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deals includes Killer Run (A Tourist Trap Mystery) by Lynn Cahoon for $1.99.

Amazon is also having a 99 romances for 99 cents sale.

The Barnes and Noble Nook Daily Find is The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma  for $1.99. The Romance Daily Find is Landing by Emma Donoghue  for $2.99.

Kobo’s Daily Deal is Be Afraid (Morgans of Nashville, Book #2) by Mary Burton for $1.99.

iTunes’ Weekly Bestsellers Under $4 includes Leonard Maltin’s 151 Best Movies You Have Never Seen for $1.99.

(A note on Daily Deals: All prices current at the time of posting and subject to change. Most items marked Daily Deals are good for only the day posted.

Many large promotions have discount pricing that is set by the publisher. This usually means that titles can be found at a discount price across most platforms (with iTunes sometimes being the exception). If you have a favorite retailer you like to patronize, check the title on that website. There is a good chance that they will be matching the sale price.)

Daily Links are interesting links I discover as I go about my online day. The frequency and number of links posted depend upon the daily news. I also post other, different links of interest on Twitter and on the Google Plus eBook Evangelist Page.

Daily Links and Deals: Your checking account is probably easier to hack into than your email

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daily_links_1Daily Links for Tuesday, March 1, 2016:

Hound Is a Digital Assistant That’s Smarter Than Siri, Google Now and Cortana (ReCode) – The new kid on the block sounds interesting.

Women Are Taking to the Streets to Save London’s Beloved Feminist Library (Broadly) – Women from the community are protesting the astronomical rent increases threatening the library.

Why you probably shouldn’t be doing work on that in-flight Wi-Fi  (Ars) – In-flight services are worse than public wi-fi? That’s scary!

Study: More than half of all ad blocker users would disable them to read content (Digiday) – What do you think? Would you disable your ad block in to read a site?

Your checking account is probably easier to hack into than your email (Quartz) – Wow, does this make you think….

It took Verizon seven months to fix Internet outage in NYC building (Ars Technica) This is an outrage….

Checkbook lets you email anyone a digital check and deposit it free (Techcrunch) – This sounds like a service that could really fill a need….

Deals of the Day:

Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deals includes Grammar Girl Presents the Ultimate Writing Guide for Students (Quick & Dirty Tips) by Mignon Fogarty for $2.99.

In the market for a new cell phone? Amazon has the ALCATEL OneTouch Idol 3 Global Unlocked 4G LTE Smartphone for $179.99. The phone is 16GB, GSM and has a US warranty.

The Barnes and Noble Nook Daily Find is  Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Kate Clifford Larson for $2.99. The Romance Daily Find is The Forgotten Recipe by Amy Clipston for $1.99.

Kobo’s Daily Deal is The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan for $1.99. Kobo is also having a Fabulous Fiction at $4.99 and Under sale until March 31, 2016.

iTunes’ Weekly Bestsellers Under $4 includes Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage by Hazel Rowley for $3.99.

(A note on Daily Deals: All prices current at the time of posting and subject to change. Most items marked Daily Deals are good for only the day posted.

Many large promotions have discount pricing that is set by the publisher. This usually means that titles can be found at a discount price across most platforms (with iTunes sometimes being the exception). If you have a favorite retailer you like to patronize, check the title on that website. There is a good chance that they will be matching the sale price.)

Daily Links are interesting links I discover as I go about my online day. The frequency and number of links posted depend upon the daily news. I also post other, different links of interest on Twitter and on the Google Plus eBook Evangelist Page.

Daily Links and Deals: The Celestial Math Behind Leap Year

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daily_links_1Daily Links for Monday, February 29, 2016:

The Celestial Math Behind Leap Year  (Motherboard) – A Leap Day look to explain the science behind February 29th.

In UK, Ereaders Hold Steady Within the Tablet Market (eMarketer) – See, people still like their ereaders….

Student Sold Drugs to Pay for College Textbooks, Police Say (The Digital Reader) – Yes, books are that expensive.

Alaska: UAF archivists work to preserve obsolete recordings (UAF) –  There is so much old technology that needs to be preserved.

Deals of the Day:

Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deals includes How Dogs Love Us: A Neuroscientist and His Adopted Dog Decode the Canine Brain by Gregory Berns for $1.99. And for cat lovers who also like fantasy, Desert Rising, the first book in Kelley Grant’s series of the same name, is on sale for $1.99. (I love this series!)

Also included among the Today’s Deals on Amazon are savings on  PC Components and Accessories. Great for GEEks and DIY fans, there are routers, monitors, memory, PCI wireless cards, processors and computer memory at reduced prices.

The Barnes and Noble Nook Daily Find is Keep Quiet by Lisa Scottoline for $1.99. The Romance Daily Find is Falling for You (Pearl Island Series, #1) by Julie Ortolon for 99 cents.

Kobo’s Daily Deal is also Keep Quiet by Lisa Scottoline for $1.99. Kobo is also offing some 80% off deals for Leap Day, including Prime Suspect:  Prime Suspect Series (Book #1) by Lynda La Plante for 99 cents. This series is the basis for the Prime Suspect TV series with Helen Mirren.

iTunes’ Weekly Bestsellers Under $4 includes Hostile Witness by William Lashner for $3.99.

(A note on Daily Deals: All prices current at the time of posting and subject to change. Most items marked Daily Deals are good for only the day posted.

Many large promotions have discount pricing that is set by the publisher. This usually means that titles can be found at a discount price across most platforms (with iTunes sometimes being the exception). If you have a favorite retailer you like to patronize, check the title on that website. There is a good chance that they will be matching the sale price.)

Daily Links are interesting links I discover as I go about my online day. The frequency and number of links posted depend upon the daily news. I also post other, different links of interest on Twitter and on the Google Plus eBook Evangelist Page.

Daily Links and Deals: Lacking a librarian, a school tries to promote reading

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daily_links_1Daily Links for Sunday, February 28, 2016:

Lacking a librarian, a school tries to promote reading (The Notebook) –  What happens when your school doesn’t have a librarian?

New Research Briefing on “Public Libraries in England” Published by House of Commons Library (Infodocket) – An interesting report on the situation with library closings in  the UK.

Self-Driving Cars And The Kobayashi Maru (Techcrunch) – Really interesting post, with bonus points for the Star Trek reference!

Clearing Google’s hurdle, Brave’s ad-blocking browser arrives (CNET) – How does a mobile browser with built in ad capability sound?

Deals of the Day:

Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deals include The Pearl that Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi for $1.99 and a selection of Arthur C. Clarke’s works, including Dolphin Island for $1.99.

The Barnes and Noble Nook Daily Find is  Showgirls, Teen Wolves, and Astro Zombies: A Film Critic’s Year-Long Quest to Find the Worst Movie Ever Made by Michael Adams for $1.99. The Romance Daily Find is Winterkill by P.H. Turner for 99 cents.

Kobo’s Daily Deal is Snobs by Julian Fellowes for $2.99.  Two days left in the Kobo store’s  30% Off Sale.  It ends February 29 and you must use coupon code 30FEB to claim your discount. .

iTunes’ Weekly Bestsellers Under $4 includes Just Desserts: A Bed-and-Breakfast Mystery by Mary Daheim for 99 cents.

(A note on Daily Deals: All prices current at the time of posting and subject to change. Most items marked Daily Deals are good for only the day posted.

Many large promotions have discount pricing that is set by the publisher. This usually means that titles can be found at a discount price across most platforms (with iTunes sometimes being the exception). If you have a favorite retailer you like to patronize, check the title on that website. There is a good chance that they will be matching the sale price.)

Daily Links are interesting links I discover as I go about my online day. The frequency and number of links posted depend upon the daily news. I also post other, different links of interest on Twitter and on the Google Plus eBook Evangelist Page.

Daily Links and Deals: Which Generation is Most Distracted by Their Phones?

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daily_links_1Daily Links for Saturday, February 27, 2016:

Which Generation is Most Distracted by Their Phones? (Priceonomics) – No, it’s not who you think!

Read: The full run of If magazine, scanned at the Internet Archive (Boing Boing) – ALL OF THEM! ALL OF THEM! THEY HAVE ALL OF THEM!

National Library of Australia Releases 40,000 Hi-Res Public Domain Maps Online (Infodocket) – This is an amazing collection, especially if you are a map lover.

How to Stream Audiobooks and Podcasts From the Cloud on the iPad and iPhone (The Digital Reader)  – Great tips on how to stream from the cloud on IOS.

Deals of the Day:

Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deals features Oscar tie-ins at up to 80% off. Have a favorite? There are so many good ones: The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man’s Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945, Life of Pi,  Mary Poppins, or maybe The Silence of the Lambs?

The Barnes and Noble Nook Daily Find is Six-Gun Snow White by Catherynne M. Valente, Charlie Bowater for $2.99. The Romance Daily Find is Aching for Always by Gwyn Cready for $2.99.

Kobo’s Daily Deal is Room by Emma Donoghue for $2.99.

iTunes’ Weekly Bestsellers Under $4 includes Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light by Patrick Mcgillian for $1.99.

(A note on Daily Deals: All prices current at the time of posting and subject to change. Most items marked Daily Deals are good for only the day posted.

Many large promotions have discount pricing that is set by the publisher. This usually means that titles can be found at a discount price across most platforms (with iTunes sometimes being the exception). If you have a favorite retailer you like to patronize, check the title on that website. There is a good chance that they will be matching the sale price.)

Daily Links are interesting links I discover as I go about my online day. The frequency and number of links posted depend upon the daily news. I also post other, different links of interest on Twitter and on the Google Plus eBook Evangelist Page.