4/17/09 UPDATE: Due to the threat of a winter storm, we decided to stay over in Santa Fe tonight and will not be able to attend the Colorado meetup tomorrow at 11 a.m. So we’ll try again in May… Colorado Kindle Chronicles Meetup Saturday Apr

News (1:56) -The  ReadingRights coalition conducts a good old-fashioned street protest at the Authors Guild office in New York City, and a related petition attracts nearly 5,000 signers who seek to protect the Kindle 2’s Text to Speech capability f

News (2:03) – Joshua Tallent’s new book, The Complete Guide to Formatting Books for the Amazon Kindle, is available for purchase in print here and here, and in Kindle format. Staton Rabin’s Betsy and the Emperor is available for Kindle p

Intro – All’s clear the day after a blizzard in Denver. News – NPR on DRM. Jacob Weisberg on the Kindle Revolution and the revolution that was.  David Rothman on what Weisberg left out. Tech Tip – How Calibre will enable you to pu

Intro – Attendance statistics courtesy of Omar L. Gallaga, who writes the Austin American-Statesman’s excellent Digital Savant blog. News – Kindle gets new 2.0.2 firmware. Sony and Google deal described as a strike against Amazon’s

News – l. No more free ride on email translations to Kindle format?  2. CNETt’s David Carnoy offers a sane overview of criticisms of the Kindle 2’s text contrast compared with that of the Kindle 1. Tech Tip – How to use Instapaper

This is a conversation by cell phone on March 11, 2009 with Robert Scoble (at right) and Buzz Bruggeman, on why the Kindle 2 doesn’t suck and how The New York Times might save itself with a bold Kindle offer. This special episode of the podcast was

News – Mike Elgan and Andy Ihnatko on the new Kindle iPhone app, two new rumors about the Kindle 3 (will have WiFi and may be introduced as early as April), a stealthy firmware update for the Kindle 2, and a troubling problem with the text readabili

News – Much ado about open standards. Tech Tip – Where oh where did the articles list go on Kindle 2?  Mary McManus saves the day. Interview – My wife Darlene asks me some great questions about the Kindle 2, submitted by members of the

News – Whispernet is coming to Casper and Fairbanks, but not for Kindle 1’s; and why, if you are planning to sell your Kindle 1 you might want to do it sooner rather than later. Tech Tip – Creating and Using Folders on a Kindle by Anonym