News – Jeff Bezos talks strategy. The DX survives a 30-inch drop AND sells out in the first three days. BYU chickens out of an innovative Kindle interlibrary loan program Tech Tip -  Via Andrei Pushkin, how to turn your Kindle DX into a calculator.

News – The Kindle DX arrives.  Some good reviews here, here, here, and here.  and a Kindle DX Textbook store may open on about July 1. Tech Tip -  How to use the very handy Kindlepedia tool. Interview – My wife Darlene asks me a few questio

News (2:26) – The DX is coming next week! Google throws down the gauntlet for Amazon.  A new owner for eInk.  A way to spend $500 on a Kindle accessory. Tech tip (7:16) – how to listen to this podcast on your Kindle. Interview (11:42) &#8211

News (1:31) – National Kindle Koffee meetup Saturday, June 6 at 10 a.m. local time – bring your Kindles! (I’ll be hanging out at the Starbucks in downtown Denver at 16th and Blake Streets.) Literary lion Charles McGrath sort of praises t

News (2:06) – Kindle Publishing for Blogs gets a thumbs-up from Abhi, and me, too. The Kindle iPhone app gets a spiffy update.  Stephen Windwalker presents evidence that the Kindle may be coming to international markets soon. Tech Tip (6:01) -  Bl

News (1:57) – Stephen Windwalker’s analysis of Kindle DX and Kindle 2 sales. Will pirates save the DX? Also, Amazon makes nifty improvements to the Kindle iPhone app. Tech Tip (7:35) – Courtesy of Pat Hawn, a consideration of putting you

News (1:40) – The Kindle DX is announced at an Amazon press conference in New York City.  Joshua Topolsky, editor-in-chief of Engadget, was there and spoke with me by phone yesterday about his first impressions of the device. (Interview with Joshua

Intro - My mother and I take the train from Saco, Maine, to Boston’s North Station.  We have the same conductor I interviewed in Audio Pod Chronicles # 40. News (1:56) – Amazon gets serious about charging for wireless conversions of personal

This is a recording of my presentation about the Kindle on April 28, 2009 at the Boston PDA Users Group, which meets on the MIT campus at 77 Mass. Ave.  Thanks to Al Willis for the invitation! UPDATE (5/2/09) – This is the raw, unedited recording o

News (1:55) – Stephen Windwalker wonders if the latest Kindle 2 firmware update, 2.0.3, might address the screen contrast issue. Ted Inoue weighs in, saying probably not. Blog Kindle suggests the new update may have something to do with Amazon&#8217