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Infinite Summer

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This morning, I spotted Kottke’s post about Infinite Summer, which is a book club that aims to read David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest in its entirety (endnotes and all) between June 21st and September 22nd. The book club has a Twitter account that you can follow and a Facebook group that you can join. Neat.
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Poorly-formatted-for-the-Kindle graphic novels now finally viewable on Kindle for iPhone app

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My biggest gripe about the Kindle to date has been the first purchase I ever made for the device: City of Glass: The Graphic Novel. I bought this graphic novel when I only had the Kindle for iPhone application, the pictures of the pages showed up on the screen with a thick white border around [...]

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My Kindle 2 suggestions email to Amazon

05.14.2009
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After seeing the screensaver image pictured above on my Kindle’s screen, I just emailed the message below to Amazon with the following suggestions for ways I think they could improve the Kindle 2:
Dear Amazon,
I love my Kindle 2. I think the keyboard and the wireless store connectivity help you get the edge over Sony’s Reader, [...]

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I’ve held an Amazon Kindle DX in my hands

05.06.2009
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I attended this morning’s Amazon Press Event at Pace University where the new Amazon Kindle DX was unveiled. The DX is a Kindle with a screen twice as large as the Kindle 2’s screen, measuring 9.7 inches diagonally with a resolution of 1200 x 824 pixels. I give my first impressions of holding it in [...]

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Kindle LED light prototype C

04.29.2009
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Kindle LED light prototype C

Originally uploaded by C.K. Sample III.

Okay, this is the best one yet and it’s super light and simple.
I took some 9 gauge aluminum armature wire that I had lying around (you can buy much more of this than you need [...]

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