Category Archives: Daily Links

Daily Links : A new Harry Potter story

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From Lifehacker, Spot a boring Kindle Book by looking at popular highlights.

JK Rowling post a new Harry Potter background story on Pottermore, from The Digital Reader

From Teleread, Almost a year with Scribd. Has anything changed with my reading?

Whispersync comes to the UK with 10 freebies, from The Ebook Reader.

From ReadWrite, In exposing followers, Medium fails readers.

As part of Amazon’s Daily Deals, there are 12 award winning Sci-fi deals,  including books by Octavia Butler, Harlan Ellison and John Brunner for only $1.99 each.

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.

 

Daily Links: Free Photography e-books

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Amazon Fire TVFrom Lifehacker: Over 40 free photography e-books (Note: many of these are in a PDF format and require giving your email address)

Do you know what your rights are if customs wants to search your laptop or smartphone? via MakeUseOf

From the Leftsetz Letter: An interesting article on book availability

The Amazon Fire TV is currently on sale for $84.00. That’s $15 off its regular price of $99.

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.

 

 

Daily Links: 50 Shades is back and more

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First, some movie news: Fifty Shades of Grey is back on top of the bestseller lists again because of the movie trailer.  From Publisher’s Weekly

Also movie related, from Variety, Anne McCaffrey’s The Dragonriders of Pern series has been optioned for film.  (I am not holding my breath; I am still waiting for a film version of Robert Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land.)

Like MOOCs? How about a free course in photojournalism from MIT? From LifeHacker

From Android Central, Amazon’s AppStore now available in more countries.

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.

Daily Links: Darwin’s Complete Galapagos Library Online

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From ArsTechnica, Charles Darwin’s Complete Galapagos library is posted online.

Amazon is testing a new subscription service called Kindle Unlimited via The Digital Reader. (There will be lots more to come on this story!)

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.

 

 

 

Daily Links: Publishers offer free, discounted books you already own

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From Boing Boing, Publishers offer free or discounted e-books of books you already own 

US National Archives To Upload All Holdings To Wikimedia Commons, from TechCrunch.

And from the eBookReader, a look at the E-Card smartphone reader.

Interesting piece from Zapier:  Read More, Faster and Better with these 30+ Apps, Tips and Tricks.

There is An infographic on e-book piracy from Teleread.

And finally, from Talking New Media, the sad state of the digital Newsweek magazine.

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.

 

 

Daily Links: Public Domain in the Digital Age

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From BoingBoing, an interesting piece on the public domain in the digital age and the concept of copyfraud.

Open Culture has an article on the Speech Accent Archive – The English accents of people who speak 341 different languages.

Amazon has 31 apps for free today (Saturday) via the Amazon App Store.

And on Making Use Of, you will find game, productivity and musical apps are on sale or free for the iPad. Note that I found that some of the pricing did not apply when purchased through a device other than an iPad.

My E-book finds of the day are The Golem and the Jinni (P.S.) and The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us from my to-be-read list. They are each on sale today for only $1.99.

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.

Daily Links: Deal on Kindle Fire HD and more

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Kindle FireToday, Amazon’s Deal of the Day is a refurbished Kindle Fire 8.9  for only $139.00. This is the previous generation model with the micro HDMI port. I use mine a lot for streaming video because of that port.

The eBook Reader has a great post on turning your Android tablet into an ereader, with a comprehensive list of reading apps for Android.

I’ve been MIA because of a couple of home projects, but here are a few other interesting recent links:

Willing to pay extra for a truly waterproof Kindle?  You may find this article from Techcrunch interesting.

I missed this when it happened, but Daniel Keyes, the author of one of my favorite books, Flowers for Algernon, has passed away. A short piece here on Galleycat.

Being a zombie fan, I also like to read books on preparedness (prepping). This article with instructions for A Bug Out Kindle loaded with survival books was interesting, although, I personally would have used an e-ink Kindle. Hey, I already have the Goal Zero Solar Recharging Kit to keep it working in an emergency!

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.

Daily Links: Open Road launches series for controversial books

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From Publishers Weekly: Open Road launches series for controversial books

From the eBookReader.com: Kobo Website formatting tip on how to identify ePub types

From Teleread: Opening Nook books in Adobe Digital Editions

From Vox (via the Digital Reader): 7 Things the most-highlighted passages from Kindles tell us

From the Digital Reader: Missing in Action: The Kindle Paperwhite 3

Today, Amazon has a Refurbished Kindle Fire HD 8.9 with 4G LTE  as the Bonus Deal of the Day. It is $199 for the 32GB version.This is the older version with the micro-HDMI port and the 4G coverage is set up for AT & T coverage.

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.

Daily Links: Romance Novel app unveiled

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These are from the last few days:

From Goodereader: RWA Novel App unveiled

From The Digital Reader: Kindle Cloud app goes international

From Open Culture: Free NASA book on communicating with Aliens

From Teleread: Free Liberace Biography

 

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.

Daily Links: Why I won’t buy more NOOK books

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From Teleread: Why I won’t buy more Nook Books

From Tate Hallaway (the author of one of my favorite paranormal mysteries, Precinct 13), a interesting blog enty:  The Joys of Obscurity. If you liked the novel and also like serials, she is doing a follow up on Wattpad called Unjust Cause.

From The Bookseller: The Kindle Cloud Reader arrives in the UK

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.