The Kindle Chronicles

The Kindle Chronicles


Latest Episodes

TKC 384 Nick Lum
December 11, 2015

Founder and CEO of BeeLine Reader   Interview starts at 12:44 and ends at 32:05   They tried it out with the first graders and found that in the control classroom the students’ reading fluency went up by about 8 points in the...

TKC 383 Bruce Jones
December 04, 2015

Graphic designer, author, product developer and workshop presenter   Interview starts at 14:57 and ends at 44:47 So whatever you do, you build products that relate to the knowledge that you have, and the two can feed each other, and you...

TKC 382 Donald Hall
November 27, 2015

Author of The Selected Poems of Donald Hall   Interview starts at 12:51 and ends at 43:57   It was a house that my great-grandfather bought in 1865, and the same family’s always lived in it. I’ll be dying pretty soon, of...

TKC 381 Lenny Charnoff in Ecuador
November 20, 2015

Creator of the Cuenca Tech Life blog   Interview starts at 1:29 and ends at 21:34   I just turned 70, so growing up in Brooklyn in the 1950s was very special. Cuenca reminded me of Brooklyn in the 1950s. The word for neighborhood in...

TKC 380 Andes Adventure
November 10, 2015

This is the third of my Ecuador TKC episodes, uploaded today (Tuesday November 10, 2015) from the Ali Shungu Mountaintop Resort in Otavalo. You will hear the owners and hosts at Ali Shungu, Frank and Margaret, talk about their thirty-plus years in...

TKC 379 Voyage of the Carina
November 05, 2015

This is the second of my Ecuador TKC episodes, uploaded today (Thursday November 5, 2015) from the cloud forest in Mindo at the Sisakuna Lodge. You will hear our Overseas Adventure Travel guide, Roberto Quintana, on location in the Galapagos, telling...

TKC 378 Hola from Ecuador!
October 26, 2015

I am posting Friday's episode of the podcast very early, on Monday, this week from Quito, Ecuador, because tomorrow we leave for the Galapagos Islands where there will be little if any Internet connection. In this show you will hear...

TKC 377 Jeff Bezos (2013) and Ecuador
October 22, 2015

Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon Highlights from my interview recorded on July 26, 2012, at Amazon’s headquarters in Seattle   The Pre-Trip Conversation  My wife Darlene, her sister Deb and I look ahead to our travels in the...

TKC 376 Stephen Windwalker
October 16, 2015

Creator of Kindle Nation Daily and BookGorilla   Interview starts at 9:38 and ends at 39:45   Of the top 100 bestsellers in the Kindle Store for the entire year of 2014, 91 of those books were made available by the publishers at prices...

TKC Test Audio B for Ecuador
October 16, 2015

This is another test of my mobile podcasting gear, two days before we leave for Ecuador. I am hoping the photo of Claire and me shows up with RSS feeds.  For audio, I used 44:58 of recording from my visit to San Francisco to attend the Amazon...