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Old 04-02-2015, 08:34 PM   #22
SteveEisenberg
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: near Philadelphia USA
Device: Kindle Kids Edition, Fire HD 10 (11th generation)
The Kindle killer app is, for me, the New York Times Latest News Blog. Is the news what distracts me from books, or visa versa? I don't find it a burning question.

Another one-could-say distraction is reading long Mobileread threads on the Kindle eInk browser:

http://www.readingthenet.com/mob?ct=...mobileread.com

Before typing the above into an eInk kindle, shorten the link at tinyurl.com. Mobileread rules mean I can't put the tinyurl address here.

The second killer Kindle eInk sort-of-app, for me, is www.readingthenet.com. That web site is radically underappreciated.

Easy follow-up reading of essays found on my PC, by using Send to Kindle and Readability, is another big plus for me. Another plus is sending texts to my @free.kindle.com address.

Not having to go to a physical library is certainly a plus, especially as the one two blocks from our house is closed until November for renovation and expansion.

Before eReaders, the book and lunch bag I carry on my transit commute would typically carry a newspaper, a magazine, the book I was reading, and the next book in case I finished the first (or was reading two at a time). So the eReader has a plus for portability.

As for the video, the best I can say is: It was short.

My wife Barbara and I can't figure out why we would want a tablet or smartphone. However, to each his own. My 90 years old Dad bought a Fire last month.

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