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Here is the third annual Totally Awesome Gift Guide–a collection of gift ideas that go beyond the mundane. These gifts are curated based on: my personal review (i.e., after using the item, I found it to be totally awesome), or I just really, really want the item myself (i.e., it is totally awesome, period). So, here are some totally awesome gifts for totally awesome people (like you!). I’ve grouped them into three categories: . . . → Read More: Totally Awesome Gift Guide 2011   Books, Culture, Fitness, Gadgets, Reviews  audible, audio book, chin up bar, chinup, demonbell, ebook, ereader, five slices of death, gift, guide, heart-shaped box, ironkey, joe hill, kendall, kendall giles, kettlebell, kindle, klean kanteen, pull up bar, pullup, soundmatters, speaker, usb, weighted vest 
Lately, the news channels have been flooded with talk about “Kindles” and “Nooks” and “ereaders” and “ebooks”. Most of the stories focus on specific products, and rarely are the simple questions addressed, like: “What is a Kindle?” or “What is an Amazon Kindle?”. I’ve even heard: “What is a Kendall Reader?”. So I thought I’d give a short introduction on the Amazon Kindle. Basically, the Amazon Kindle is a family of ereader devices made . . . → Read More: What is a Kindle? 
I’ve been using my Kindle for quite a while now and it continues to impress me with the ease and convenience it allows me to find new books and start reading them. For example, in an earlier post I mentioned how to find free ebooks on your Kindle. Just yesterday there were three older books I needed to find for something I’m working on and so I marched off to my library to try . . . → Read More: Free books on the Kindle 
Above, an apricot tree bursts into bloom. The world watches, transfixed by the earthquake and tsunami news coming from Japan. The first link below is one way you can help, right now. Other links include security concerns about being scanned while walking down the sidewalk, bitter ebook practices by a major publisher, Quidditch news, Will Ludwigsen on breaking in as a writer, new super-strong nylon, and accepting credit card payments on your iPhone. Japan . . . → Read More: Apricot blossoms and galumphing through the Internet 
If you have a Kindle (here’s a review of the graphite Kindle 3), or even if you don’t have a Kindle but have one of the free Kindle reading apps for your PC, Mac, BlackBerry, iPad/iPhone, Android, or Windows Phone 7 device, you may be interested in locating free books to read. Of course Amazon sells a large selection of ebooks, and you can also gift ebooks to other people or even give someone . . . → Read More: Free ebooks for your Kindle 
It’s that time of year again–time to start thinking about giving gifts to your friends and relatives. Just in case you’d like a few gift ideas, below I’ve pulled together a few items that I think you might enjoy giving (or receiving!). 1. MIR Weighted Vest Since I travel a lot and can’t easily carry around my kettlebells (see #5 below), I’ve been doing a lot of bodyweight exercises. After working through a . . . → Read More: Great Gift Ideas 2010 
Above is a look down my driveway on a crisp fall morning. Below are some weekend reading links. Not sure why so many of my links this week include Hobbits–perhaps it’s because my subconscious relates to this time of year, when there’s nothing better than talking a long walk through the woods, listening to the crunch of leaves under foot, smelling hints of mushroom and roasted chestnut in the air, and sitting, after dinner, . . . → Read More: Fall morning and weekend reading links, 12 November 2010 
Amazon has just released a new software update for your Kindle reader that brings a lot of great new features to the platform. New features in the version 2.5 software update include: collections: the ability to create folders for organizing your books and audio files PDF pan and zoom: ability to zoom into PDFs and move the viewing window around password protection: allows you to password protect your Kindle better fonts: the fonts are now . . . → Read More: Version 2.5 Software Update for Amazon Kindle reader Amazon just released a kindle reader application (Kindle for iPhone link in iTunes) for the iPhone and iPod touch. If you were hesitant to buy a kindle 2 book reader (review), but still wanted access to Amazon’s huge selection of electronic books, then this free application might be just what you were looking for. As an example, here is the title page of the book Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard . . . → Read More: Kindle Application for the iPhone and iPod Touch |
 
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