The second article in the 'Kindle for PowerShellers' series

How to read blogs on a Kindle? The article describes the way Amazon provides.

Kindle for PowerShellers series

As a mission to advance the Kindle to areas where it's not common yet, a mission taken just because I love Kindle, I'm publishing a series of articles 'Kindle for PowerShellers'.

The series is intended to show IT people in which way they could use the Kindle to be on the edge of the technical progress. That does not matter PowerShell or another technical area is, the series aimed to highlight what is the Kindle does best on that way.

The Noble competitor to announce the All-New Nook. Part 2

After I've finished my previous post, I've noticed more features I like

• this new model supports extension cards, possibly SD/SDHC
• it also can be connected by a wire (that is not new one feature at all, but why don't mention it?). This is probably a mini-USB or most likely a micro-USB jack. Each of them fits 'less than 1/2 inch thin device'
• borrowing from libraries, what is not available on a Kindle yet
• the user is allowed to set a screensaver from a number the vendor offers or even use own picture as a screensaver.

The Noble competitor to announce the All-New Nook

B&N recently announced the availability of the all-new Nook in June. Which type of a gadget the all-new Nook is?

First of all, the commonly believed total move to color screens are postponed. Nook to get a Pearl screen with traditional 50% plus increase of contrast.

Second, the screen is a touchscreen. Thus, this is almost a hybrid a Kindle and a Sony Reader, touchable as the latter and with network capabilities as the former.

Third, it's of six inches as the most of world's Pearl readers population. Won't be a lack of screens this year?

Fourth, its weight is under eight ounces and it's incredible thin, of unannounced size though.

Fifth and the most fascinating if true, it is intended to work up to two months on one battery charge.

Sixth, its price is equal to a regular Kindle 3 Wi-Fi, implying that for the same price you'll have one more month of uninterruptible work and the touchscreen as a bonus. With two million titles in the store, especially that in opposite to Amazon's there is a number in foreign languages, the rivalry gets tougher.

Which will be the answer of Amazon? An Android tablet? One more Pearl reader? Both of them? It's the question!

Lowering the Kindle price of showing the real price?

Amazon made a new step towards its customers, offering Kindle 3G + Wi-Fi, special edition, for only $164. The Kindle may be of two color schemata of our choice, graphite and white. All the special features are the same as embedded into Kindle Wi-Fi, special edition, whareas all the remaining features are from Kindle 3G + Wi-Fi.

Despite the excitement the news brought to us, the only question concerned is that which of two prices, 3G or 3G special, reflect the true price?

Kindle as a network management tool

Since yesterday, it's proven that your Kindle might have helped you not only read blogs or check e-mail on a vacation, but with it you also may run services and set permissions across your corporate network. Under the link is the story.

There's a bearable fly in the oinment that you need to buy a soft of the price of a marvellous Kindle 3G. On the other hand, this is a relatively small fee, moreover paid once, enabling you to rest on the beach (Pearl rocks!).

Kindle 3 in dextrous hands

I doubt where this post is technical or not. Let's see.

No longer than yesterday I was asked about where a cover for Kindle 3 can be bought, in short time and on a budget. This is not an easy question for living outside the WTO world, out of its borders Amazon doesn't deliver Kindles, outside Moscow, where the rivalry suppressed prices and provides a choice, and far away of Siberia, the place to where delivering from China is fast and cheap.

Not a matter of yesterday's buddy's problem, there is in Saint-Petersburg the local custom service, even more slowdowning the delivery of goods.

So that there are two possibilities to obtain a cover: to find a local supplier or an individual willing to sell one, or to make it by hands. Make it by hands? Incredible thought! The utter nonsence many have heard. But, despite the chance to lose readers' veracity, I continue publishing craftworks of local people.

The topic on one of the biggest local forums on e-readers represents models for transporting as well as models for reading during a dinner or a bath.

The first model fo today's review is an armored sock:

With one tenth inch wooden protection, it took the time calculated in such a way:

• 10 minutes for preparation of wooden list including sawing and polishing
• 3 hours does it took to entice the Kindle owner's wife to join the craftwork
• 1 hour is spent on calculations and layout projecting
• 15 minutes was needed to weave the cover using the Silver Reed machine
• and, finally, 30 minutes for piecing together all the previous results

Is it pretty thing, isn't it?

The same master went even farther and proposed one more thing to use

with Kindle. As many of us obviously read at the eating time, this old CD cover may help in some cases:

At last, applause to the last model of the today's show, the Book in the Book!

I promise to continue informing you about revealed cases of all-around-Kindle craftmanship further.