Amazon’s new Kindle is a bit of all white – Pocket-lint.com

Amazon has revealed a new version of its Kindle with a festive feel just in time for Christmas. Yes, this Kindle is snowy white.

Apart from being white the new Kindle is the same as the current black model in terms of specs and offerings.

That means the white Kindle features a low-power touch screen display capable of a battery life of over a month. Access to over one million books is possible via the Kindle Store. The device is 20 per cent faster than the previous generation and offers double the storage space.

Amazon features include Whispersync for picking up where you left off across devices, X-Ray to quickly look up character information, plus adjustable font sizes all in a small form.

Parent friendly features include Vocabulary Builder and Word Wise to help children learn while reading.

The Kindle White is available now for £60.

More books are available via Kindle Unlimited for £8 per month giving access to one million books and thousands of audiobooks with unlimited listening and reading. Plus there’s Kindle First which offers a monthly book in advance of their release for 99p or free to Prime members.

READ: Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (2015) vs Amazon Kindle Voyage: What’s the difference?

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Amazon Discounts Kindle e-Readers by $20 – Good E-Reader (blog)

Amazon has discounted a number of e-readers on their website for a three day sale. You can check out the Kindle Basic Touch, which normally retails for $ 79, now on sale for $ 59. Maybe the Kindle Paperwhite 3 is up your alley? This device normally costs $ 119 and is now on sale for $ 99. Sadly, the flagship Kindle Voyage has received no discount.

Sometime this month Amazon is expected to announce three new e-readers. The most anticipated is the second generation Kindle Voyage, which is thought to forgo the haptic page turn buttons and use the new Freescale IMX7 processor. The Seattle company is also going to refresh their Kindle Basic model and up the resolution and release a 4th generation Paperwhite.

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Lending Kindle Books – New York Times

Q. I have a Kindle e-reader and my friend has an Android tablet with the Kindle app on it. Can we lend each other e-books?

A. Amazon does not require ownership of one of its Kindle e-readers to lend and borrow its Kindle e-books. One or both people can use one of the company's many Kindle reading apps for mobile devices and computers to share.

To lend a Kindle book to a friend, log in to the Amazon site and go to the Manage My Content and Devices page from the Your Account menu. In your list of purchased Kindle books, select a title in the list and click the Action button next to it. In the Actions menu, select Loan This Title. On the next screen, enter the email address of the friend who wishes to borrow your book and send the message.

The message to your friend includes a link to download the lent book. The person then has 14 days to read the book, and during that time you will not be able to use that same title. To return a borrowed Kindle e-book, your friend should log into Amazon, go to the Manage My Content and Devices page, select the book and on the Actions menu choose Delete From Library.

Keep in mind that a book can be lent only one time. If a loan is not accepted after seven days, the book becomes available in your library, and you can lend it out again. Not all Kindle books Amazon sells can be lent, either. If you do not see a Loan This Title option when you select a book from the list on your Amazon content page, that book is not available for lending.

Locking Up an iPhone

Q. I updated my iPhone 5 to iOS 9 and it asked me to enter a passcode, which I did. But I'm tired of having to type in the number all the time, so how do I turn it off again?

A. Apple recommends using a passcode to protect your personal information if your phone is lost or stolen, but you can turn it off or change the setting so that you have to enter it less frequently. On the iPhone 5, open the Settings icon and tap Passcode.

Enter your passcode number. On the Passcode Lock screen, you can now turn off the setting or give yourself up to a four-hour window of not having to enter the code to use the phone.

TIP OF THE WEEK Even on a super-sharp computer display, it is still possible to lose sight of your mouse pointer in a sea of open windows. The latest version of Mac OS X (10.11, also known as El Capitan) offers an easy way to locate your cursor. Just shake your finger back and forth on the trackpad — or jiggle the mouse — to see the small black arrow turn into a big black arrow until you stop wiggling. (If you find the feature annoying while gaming, you can disable it by opening the Settings icon, selecting Accessibility, then Display, and turning off the checkbox next to "Shake mouse pointer to locate.")

In many versions of Windows, you can turn on a checkbox on the Pointer Options tab in the Mouse control panel that highlights the cursor position on screen when you press the Control key. In Windows 10, you can even turn the white mouse pointer black and change its size. From the Start menu, select Settings, then Ease of Access. From the list on the left, choose Mouse to see the options for pointer size and color.

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10-inch Kindle Fire tablet also coming soon – Geek Snack

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Amazon launched one of the most affordable tablets today, a 7-inch Fire tablet that costs only $ 50 a pop. At the same time, the retail giant also introduced a new set of the Fire Stick and Fire TV, but that's not all the company is doing hardware-wise right now. Aside from supposedly working on the Fire Phone 2, Amazon is also working on another tablet, a 10-inch Kindle Fire tablet, which has been leaked online today.

Enthusiasm about the super affordable Amazon Fire tablet of today is pretty great, as people see the new device as a worthy investment with a balanced feature-set. While the $ 50 tablet from Amazon is geared at those on a tighter budget, the 10-inch Amazon Fire should target a different consumer set: those who don't want a Surface, but don't want an iPad either – the middle ground.

The rumored 10-inch Amazon Fire tablet was leaked online today in a set of benchmark results and photos, and it's a pretty mysterious device. Although specs of the 10-inch Kindle Fire aren't impressive, as the tablet is a mid-ranger more than anything else, there are certain elements in the leaked spec sheet that might spell a different future for the new, larger tablet.

Another, larger Kindle Fire tablet is on its way

According to GFXBench benchmark results, the 10-inch Kindle Fire slate will feature a large 10-inch screen with a low resolution of 1280*800, a MediaTek processor, 1 GB RAM, 16 GB internal storage and what looks like near-stock Android 5.1 Lollipop. Naturally, Fire OS will be an integral part of the new Kindle Fire, but not as we knew it from the Fire Phone, fortunately.

Apparently, Amazon has been listening to feedback and decided that it would implement at least part of the requested features. The revamped Fire OS which will be part of the 10-inch Kindle Fire won't be as cumbersome as before and the UI will be closer to stock. We're not sure if Google services will be integrated, but that's what our sources are telling us. Amazon's tweaked version of Android can't run Google services right now, but on the advent of the new tablet, it might.

The 10-inch Kindle Fire release date is unconfirmed at the moment of writing, but the air is thick with anticipation and we might see Amazon launching the larger variant of the 7-inch Fire tablet in a matter of weeks. If the 7-inch version costs only $ 50, the 10-inch Kindle Fire should be just as affordable. Although availability and pricing of the device have not been confirmed, the Kindle Fire price should not go over the $ 130 mark with these specs, which is quite affordable still. We'll be back with more info once the tablet is confirmed.

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Amazon Kindle vs Scribd: eBook subscription models compared – Livemint

E-books have been popular simply because people like the convenience of being able to read them on their phones, tablets and readers while traveling, during their lunch break or even before falling asleep, and don't have to carry physical books. The library of e-books has been massive on services such as Amazon's Kindle, Scribd, Kobo, Nook and Google's Play Books.

Now, Amazon has launched the subscription service for Kindle users in India, where at a fixed monthly cost, users read from a collection over 600,000 books.

Incidentally, another e-book service called Scribd was already offering a subscription service in India. We take a look at how the two compare.

Amazon Kindle Unlimited

Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, BlackBerry, Windows Phone, Kindle readers

Kindle Unlimited offers Kindle readers access to 600,000 books without having to buy even one of them. For this, Amazon charges a monthly subscription fee of Rs.199 (at present, there is a limited time offer that charges a discounted rental of Rs.99 per month). In terms of the cost, Kindle Unlimited costs less than Scribd, but we feel that the former's collection of books available for users in India is not as impressive as what they offer in the US and various European countries. While you will get to read Gone Girl and the entire Harry Potter series, most of the other titles aren't exciting. We couldn't find the Scion of Ikshvaku by Amish, which incidentally is available as a separate purchase on the Kindle store.

However, the biggest edge that Kindle Unlimited has over Scribd is that it works seamlessly across all Kindle apps and devices. Though its interface is clean and uncluttered, it is pretty basic—some of the images used in the book cover look blurry, but that isn't a deal breaker. Amazon has a lot of work to do with Kindle Unlimited in India, and they can begin by bringing in more publishers, new books and audio books.

Scribd

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The unique bit about Scribd is that it began with the subscription-only model. It charges about Rs.624 per month and gives you unlimited access to 400,000 e-books, 50,000 audio books, and also comics on both mobile and desktop. Also, there is a huge stack of literary research papers on Scribd, mostly uploaded by users. It's not as well organised as the ebooks and other categories but they can be really valuable to some users.

It has a busy but smartly tabulated interface—your current reading list shows on top, followed by new books and several other categories curated for readers according to their reading habits. For instance, if you are reading a book by Ernest Hemingway, the homepage will show a category on books by Hemingway with the entire collection of the writer's work on the store. Searching for books is as much fun as reading them. Every book has a small excerpt followed by reviews from other readers.

However, when it comes to new launches it's no better than Kindle Unlimited, but we like it as it has a good collection of rare books, which are not available on Kindle Unlimited, like Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman, published in 1964. It is a novel about life in public schools in US in the 60s. The story is told through letters written by a young teacher to her friend, memos filed by her and conversations between students and the teacher.

Scribd carries books from all leading publishers such as Penguin, Harper Collins, Macmillan. Their subscription is a bit costlier than Amazon, but the collection, variety and presentation gives it an edge over Kindle Unlimited.