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A Rambling Blog Post (and a Little Bit Related to the Kindle)

October 1, 2012 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

It’s time again for another one of those rambling blog posts, where I have no set agenda but just bang away on the keyboard and see what happens….

 

Kindle Paperwhite Ships Today

The replacement to the Kindle Touch, the Kindle Paperwhite, ships today: mine should be arriving tomorrow and I am looking forward to checking it out.  If you didn’t pre-order a Paperwhite, these are either really popular or they didn’t manufacture that many.  Why do I say that?  Well, if you didn’t pre-order one and you place an order today, it won’t ship until October 22nd and Amazon is limiting purchases to five per customer.

I blogged about many of the issues with the Kindle Touch that struck a nerve with many of you who really enjoy your Touch – here’s to hoping a lot (if not all) of those issues will be resolved with this new version.  The built-in light should be a home run for most users, and I am interested to see if the battery really lasts for 8 weeks as advertised.

If you haven’t checked out the specs on the new Paperwhite, it comes with a wireless only version as well as a free 3G cellular version; each of those two versions also has different pricing if you have the Special Offers or not included with the Paperwhite.  I chose the one with Special Offers as (a) it’s cheaper, and (b) the ads / offers don’t show up on the screen while you are reading and I rarely look at the screen saver at all.

You can check out the 3G version if you check this one out if you click here or type in http://bit.ly/paper3g or http://bit.ly/paperwhite3g into your web browser.

You can check out the Wi-Fi version if you click here or type in http://bit.ly/kindlepaper into your web browser.  The only difference between the two is the 3G capability and $60 more for the 3G connectivity.

 

The Kids’ Quote Book

After a month, I thought I would update you on my children’s progress on raising money for the spring break trip to Washington, D.C.; if you don’t know what I’m talking about, you can click here or type in http://bit.ly/NEzWll into your web browser to read the post about their collaborative efforts in writing their first Kindle book.

Thanks to your kind participation and a couple of donations from the blog members my daughter, whose class is actually going as a group to DC, has raised enough money for her trip.  Little brother is almost halfway there but is in a quandary: he has decided he wants a new laptop computer, which is cheaper than the trip to DC, and is debating with himself and others the pros and cons of each – I think that’s great he’s trying to make the decision on his own and actually putting pencil to paper as he works it out.

My wife and I, as well as our children, appreciate each one of you!

They have both decided if they raise enough money for both of them, they will be making donations to charities with the first one they identified as the Make-A-Wish foundation.  They thought of that on their own, and that makes a father’s heart swell with pride.

So, here’s another appeal: if you would like to purchase their book here’s where you can find it:

USA subscribers: click here or type in http://bit.ly/quotes2013 into your web browser.

UK subscribers: click here or type in http://bit.ly/quotes2013uk into your web browser

Alternatively, if you are an Amazon Prime member you can borrow the book for free – Amazon Prime members can borrow one book per month – and the ironic thing is even though you are borrowing the book at no cost to you, the kids will receive just as much money from Amazon as if you had bought it.

If you don’t know how to borrow a book for free from Amazon, I have a post from November of last year that explained the process: you can click here or type in http://bit.ly/QEJCkM into your web browser if you would like to read those instructions.

 

Kindle Books for a Buck Blog

Several people this week asked me if I was still publishing the Kindle Books for a Buck (or Less) blog – the short answer is “yes.”  The longer answer is Amazon made me change the name of that blog, also, and it is now retitled “eBooks for a Buck (or Less).”  You can check that blog out if you click here or point your web browser to http://ebooksforabuck.wordpress.com

Some people have the perception if a book is priced at 99 cents it is garbage: sometimes that is true, but I can also point to a lot of high-priced “bestsellers” I thought were garbage.  I think the bigger point is some of the things I enjoy reading you will detest and vice versa.

About two months ago I realized I was excluding those readers in the UK and started adding links to the featured titles’ UK Amazon Kindle bookstore.

You never know what you will find and this blog has had several books I think many of you will enjoy and be surprised at what you will find, including:

An illustrated children’s book that costs all of a nickel – click here or type in http://bit.ly/SgwjJG into your web browser to see that one.

A novella by bestselling author Stephen King priced at 99 cents – click here or type in http://bit.ly/PnneIB into your web browser to see that one.

I also read some of the books that are featured on this blog – if you have been following what I have been reading lately, you will see I have been on an apocalyptic / end of the world reading kick lately – and last week I featured on called A Distant Eden by Lloyd Tackitt that is 99 cents.  I thought it was pretty good and purchased and completed the sequel late last week.  To see that post, you can click here or type in http://bit.ly/W8hM1a  into your web browser.

If you click on any of the links above, you will be taken to that blog’s web page.  You can look on the right-hand side of the page and subscribe via email (which is free) – just make sure you reply to the confirmation email to make sure I’m not spamming anyone.

Amazon also allows you to receive the blog on your e-Ink Kindle, and that costs 99 cents per month: of that amount, I receive 30 cents per month or just a penny per day per subscriber.  Amazon will allow you to try out the subscription for two weeks at no cost: if you unsubscribe before that two week period is over you will not be charged.  To read this blog on your e-Ink Kindle, you can click here or type in http://amzn.to/kb4abuck into your web browser: once you get to the Amazon page, click on the “Subscribe now with 1-Click” button on the right-hand side of the page.

 

Baseball

What does baseball have to do with the blog or a Kindle?  Nothing!  I will tell you I’m pretty happy the Rangers are limping into the playoffs – hopefully, they will get out of their funk and turn it back on and peak during the playoffs vs. fade.  I went to my first Rangers game almost 40 years ago, and after decades of frustrating season this is exciting!

Anyway, that’s all I have for now – I hope everyone has a great week!

Michael

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A Rambling Blog Post (and even a little about the Kindle)…

September 22, 2012 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

I thought it time for another random blog post where I just bang away on the keyboard with whatever comes to mind, share some information, answer a few questions….who knows?  If you would like to write to me, you can send an email to michael at fkbooksandtips dot com (I type it that way in a small effort to avoid the spammers).

 

The Blog’s Website and Social Media Pages

It has certainly been a month or two related to technology…

First, Amazon made me change the name of the blog’s Facebook page last month because it had the word “Kindle” in the title (although they still allow many others to do it, which makes me wonder if I made someone mad), which made me start from scratch and lose over 20,000 folks.  The Facebook population is slowly getting back up to speed and will hopefully cross the 14,000 mark soon – you can check it out if you click here or type in http://www.facebook.com/fkbooks into your web browser.  If you do stop by, why not give it a “Like” as, for example, a lot of independent authors stop by and post about their free book offerings on the right-hand side of that page under the “Recent Posts By Others” section.

Last weekend saw the blog having to move from a shared server to a dedicated server.  That process, and the associated fun, slowdowns, and overall pain-in-the-neck process probably made my web expert Lacy pull out her hair and may have drove her to drink!  If you haven’t had a chance to check that out, you can either click here or type in http://www.fkbooksandtips.com into your web browser.  Click on the individual titles if you would like to comment on each post (down at the bottom of the post), and you can click the “Send” button at the top of each post – just underneath the post’s title – to email it to your Kindle-owning family, friends, and even enemies!

When I asked you to check it out last week, so many of you hit the server at one time – and a few things weren’t optimized 100% – things got a little slow over last weekend.  Traffic is back up to normal – actually, it’s averaging higher than when it was on the shared server – so you should be good to go and start clicking away.

If you scroll down to the bottom of each page, you can click the “Previous” or “Next” icons to check out the other pages.  While you’re there, click on the links on the left-hand side to see if there is something you have missed!

I’m asked a couple of times per week where the blog’s Twitter and Pinterest sites are, so here they are:

Twitter: http://twitter.com/FKBT

Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/fkbooks

 

The New Kindle Fires

One of the posts I had over last weekend contained my reviews and thoughts on the two new Kindle Fires, but due to the web server migration issues a lot of you didn’t see it and have asked me what my thoughts are.

Overall, I think they are very good – the $159 Fire that replaces the first-generation Fire (which used to be $199) is pretty good and an outstanding value.  You can read the review I wrote for it, complete with the pluses and two nitpicky minuses – if you click here or type in http://amzn.to/Nu5vD1 into your web browser.

For the $199 HD Kindle Fire, I like this one more – if you can afford the extra $40 (as compared to the Fire mentioned above), I would recommend this one due to the faster Wi-Fi connection, much better screen display, and Bluetooth capability.  You can read the review I wrote for it, complete with the pluses and two nitpicky minuses – if you click here or type in http://amzn.to/PJXiJ2 into your web browser.

 

Blog Subscriptions via Email

Many of you receive the blog via an email subscription – even more of you have tried to signup for an email subscription but are not receiving it.  Why?  Well, once you put your email address in the signup bar, and assuming you typed in your email address correctly, you need to go check your email box and reply to the confirmation email message – if you don’t reply to the email confirmation message, you won’t receive the blog posts via email!

To signup for an email subscription –a gain, it’s free – you can click here or point your web browser to http://www.fkbooksandtips.com/subscribe

Type in your email address and press the button, then go check your email account for the confirmation message and make sure you reply back to me.  If you stil don’t receive it, you may want to check the spam or junk folders on your email software, or if you are a third-party email server such as Google’s Gmail, go online and log into your email account and check the Junk folder.

 

Kindle Fire Question

Cynthia K. emailed me a question that almost stumped me – I had to think about it for a minute as it was one of those moments I knew I knew the answer, but it just wouldn’t reveal itself until I pulled out my Kindle Fire and turned it on.  Here was her question:

What is the number inside the circle at the top left corner by my name on my Kindle Fire?  I have tried to find out what that number means and cannot find the information anywhere.  Could you help solve the mystery please? 

Here’s the answer: that number with the circle in the middle is the number of “notifications” you have.  Just swipe down near that area, and the screen will then show you a notification of app updates, what is running on your Fire, etc.

 

Next Week’s Schedule

I’m flying out of town tomorrow afternoon for work and I will be out of town for a couple of days, so I will answer emails upon my return.  Don’t worry – I’ve already prepared several posts to hit the wire while I am gone!

 

Anyway, it looks like I’ve typed a lot (my word counter says I’m over 1,000 words) so if you’ve read this far – congratulations (and thanks)!

Have a great rest of your weekend-

Michael

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Another Random Blog Post Plus an Update

September 15, 2012 by Michael Gallagher 4 Comments

All – I am still working through the issues with the blog’s web server today. Basically, and this is a good problem to have if I sit back and look at the big picture, there was too much traffic on the existing server. Hopefully, things will be transitioned over to a new, dedicated, server vs. a shared hosting arrangement later today. In order to not crash the shared server again before things are straightened out, I am going to have this be the last post of the day – but put a few things in one post.

 

The New Kindle Fire ($159 Version)

I received my new Kindle Fire – the $159 version that replaces the “old” Kindle Fire yesterday, and I spent a lot of time playing / messing around with it. Overall, I think it is pretty good and an outstanding value at $159. You can read the review I wrote for it, complete with the pluses and two nitpicky minuses – if you click here or type in http://amzn.to/Nu5vD1 into your web browser.

 

The New Kindle HD Fire ($199 Version)

I also received the new Kindle Fire HD version – $the new $199 version – and played with it yesterday; my kids thought I was ignoring them last night, and I guess I was. Each one has laid a claim to one of the new Fires, but I am being firm!
Compared to the $159 version above, while both of them are very good I prefer this one because of the screen display, faster Wi-Fi, and this one (finally!) has Bluetooth capability. You can read the review I wrote for it, complete with the pluses and two nitpicky minuses – if you click here or type in http://amzn.to/PJXiJ2 into your web browser.

 

The Kindle Daily Deal

The Kindle Daily Deal is a one-day only offer where a specific Kindle book for adults and one for kids (children or young adults) has been hand-selected by the editors at Amazon and significantly discounted for today only.

This weekend, Amazon appears to be continuing the trend they had last weekend by offering more than one book as the Daily Deal – in this case there are four books for adults and one for kids.

Today’s Kindle Daily Deal for adults is two books from two separate romantic suspense series from Barbar Freethy, including the Sanders Brothers and Deception series, and these books were $4.99 each yesterday in the Amazon Kindle Store but have been discounted 60% to just $1.99 for today only.

Today’s Kindle Daily Deal for kids (strangely, they renamed it today to the Kindle Young Readers Daily Deal) is The Captain’s Dog by Roland Smith, and this book was $6.99 yesterday in the Amazon Kindle Store but has been discounted 72% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 17 customer reviews.

You can check both of them out if you click here or type in http://amzn.to/kddeal into your web browser.

Rather than overwhelm the server this morning with a description of each of the Barbara Freethy books, you can check them out if you click on the link above.

 

Here is The Captain’s Dog book description from the Amazon website:

 

 

Born the runt of his litter and gambled away to a rusty old riverman, the Newfoundland pup Seaman doesn’t imagine his life will be marked by any kind of glory–beyond chasing down rats. But when he meets Captain Meriwether Lewis, Seaman finds himself on a path that will make history. Lewis is just setting off on his landmark search for the Northwest Passage, and he takes Seaman along. Sharing the curiosity and strength of spirit of his new master, Seaman proves himself a valuable companion at every turn. Part history, part science–and adventure through and through–The Captain’s Dog is the carefully researched, thrilling tale of America’s greatest journey of discovery, as seen through the keen, compassionate eyes of a remarkable dog.

You can pick up your copy of The Captain’s Dog by clicking here or typing in http://amzn.to/kddeal into your computer’s web browser.

 

Anyway, that’s all I have for now. Hopefully, the new server will be 100% ready to go soon!

Have a great weekend-

Michael Gallagher

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Another Rambling Blog Post…

September 9, 2012 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Here’s a short, rambling post of a few things…some of it Kindle-related!

 

The Kindle Daily Deal

I am guessing the weekends are different than the weekdays as, once again, this post is going to be short and sweet – rather than one book for adults and one book for kids, the Kindle Daily deal is a combined 13 books: ten books for adults and three books for kids.

The Kindle Daily Deal for adults is comprised of ten romance books that are up to 73% off of yesterday’s pricing and are $1.99 each.

The Kindle Kids Daily Deal is the “Big Book” series are just $1.99 each, which is 74% off of yesterday’s pricing. I think my son would especially like one of these called “The Big Book of Gross Stuff.”

You can check all of these out by clicking here or typing in http://amzn.to/kddeal into your computer’s web browser, and remember – these are at this price for today only!

 

Free App of the Day

I posted about the free app of the day again today – you may recall I stopped doing it every single day as many of the apps being offered were rated less than three stars: remember, two stars means “I don’t like it” on the Amazon rating system.  Several of you wrote me and said I should post it anyway, and to let you decide.

I considered that briefly and thought I would do it, but I changed my mind: if it’s not rated at least 4 out of 5 stars, which is my threshold for telling you about free Kindle book offerings, I am not going to list it.

Why?  It’s about the perceived quality of what I am telling you about each day.  If I keep telling you about things people have dumped over in the review system – right or wrong – why would you stay or care?

On the other hand, if you would like to check out the free app of the day for yourself, I created an easy-to-remember shortlink for you to check them out.  You can either click here or type in http://tinyurl.com/appdeal into your web browser.

 

The New $69 Kindle

Speaking of people dumping over a review – based on the votes on the Amazon website the review I wrote for the new Kindle was either pretty bad or I’m being specifically bombed.  Unfortunately, there really aren’t any comments to the review that let me know what is missing from it.

You can click here or type in http://amzn.to/P47kVD into your web browser to read it – if you think it could be improved, please send me an email (michael at fkbooksandtips dot com) and let me know your thoughts.

 

College Football

I hinted all of this post wouldn’t be Kindle-related…

I spent most of yesterday afternoon watching college football – now if only the Houston weather would cooperate and make it feel like fall!

 

Books on a Kindle Fire

Here’s a note I received from Michelle C.:

First of all let me say a big THANK YOU for all your hard work in selecting free books of all genres for all of us to choose from. I’m having a little problem that I really don’t understand and was hoping you might be able to enlighten me. I have selected several free books from the amazon store yesterday and today, I have received receipts but the books are not on my kindle fire. I have had my kindle for a few months now and have never had a problem. I hate to bother you with this, however was hoping you could direct me what to do in this case. Again thank you for all you do.

 

The short answer is “I don’t know” why this happens, but it does and it frustrates my kids a lot – they read on their Fires, while I mainly read on my e-Ink Kindle Keyboard and it doesn’t happen to me.

The high-tech solution we’ve used to “fix” the problem is this:

  • Completely power down and restart the Fire by pressing and holding the power button for 30 seconds.
  • Wait ten seconds.
  • Power the unit back on.
  • Wait another minute or so to allow the Fire to reset and establish a connection with our Wi-Fi.
  • Synch the Kindle Fire with the Amazon server by pressing the little gear icon in the top right-hand corner (next to the battery power level indicator), then pressing the “Sync” icon.

Hope that helps!

 

Have a great rest of your weekend-

Michael
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Another Rambling Kindle Blog Post…

September 5, 2012 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Well, it’s time for another rambling post…as usual, I really have no set agenda, but more of an effort to pass on information to you.  If you wish to write to me, my email address is Michael at fkbooksandtips dot com (I write it that way in a small effort to thwart the spammers).

 

Amazon Press Conference Tomorrow

As I mentioned in an earlier rambling post, Amazon has scheduled a major press conference tomorrow morning and has invited most of the major media outlets and lots of bloggers to the event (dangit, but they didn’t invite me and my feelings are hurt).  They haven’t announced what the topic will be, but popular opinion (i.e., rumor and scuttlebutt) believes it will be the announcement of the next generation Kindle Fire and Kindle Touch.

That may or may not be true, but I know a lot of people will be anxiously awaiting what that might be.  For example, if a new Kindle Fire is announced will it include a camera, 3G capability, or a bigger screen?  Some prognosticators are speculating it will have a phone built into the unit – although I can’t imagine placing a Fire at the current size or larger like an iPad up to my ear to carry on a conversation – as well as open speculation Amazon has also designed an Android-based, but Amazon-branded, cell phone.

If there is an announcement of a new Touch, many folks are hoping the problems with page turning and all-around maneuverability and  functionality will be resolved – myself included.

As for me, I could care less about the camera in a Fire although I know many of you want it.  What I am looking for in a new Fire is a larger screen and 3G capability.  I still prefer reading on my e-Ink Kindle Keyboard vs. the Fire as it is easier on my eyes: I use my Fire mainly to play games (I’m addicted to Words With Friends).  However, and don’t gasp at me, I do use an iPad at work and I do like the larger screen and the ability to check my email and all of the other stuff I do with the 3G connection anywhere and not be dependent upon knowing the Wi-Fi password of whatever airport or location I may be during my travels.  I would imagine if a new version of a Fire came out with a larger screen and 3G, my iPad will be retired.

Of course, all of this could be a moot point if tomorrow’s press conference is not Kindle related, so stay tuned!

 

Changes to the Blog’s Website

Over the last couple of weeks, there have been some changes to the organization of the blog’s website – you can go check out the blog’s website if you click here or point your web browser to www.fkbooksandtips.com

So, what changed?  In no particular order:

  • Creation of a menu structure on the left-hand side of the page.
  • More space in the middle for the actual content vs. the menu items on the left and right-hand sides of the page.
  • A smaller banner / masthead so you don’t have to scroll down as far to start reading the content.
  • The various free book categories / genres were moved to the new left-hand menu structure and placed in a column vs. the jumbled-up format on the right.  They also have the same font character size vs. WordPress’ default of the most popular / frequent being in a larger font size.
  • The “Home” etc. links were moved from the top right to the left to allow for less scrolling down before you start reading the blog’s content.
  • The overall structure of the blog was changed to make the pages load a heck of a lot faster.

 

If you have a moment or two over the next couple of days, stop by and give it a look: every post since the blog started on November 7, 2009 is posted (click here to see that first post about the Templar Legacy, back when I would just post about one or two free book offers per day – which was about all it was “way back” then).  Click on the categories and see if you missed some free Kindle book offers, but please make sure you check the pricing before you click the “buy” button on the Amazon website as the pricing changes all of the time.

You can also click on the “Kindle Tips” category, for example, to see if there is anything new for you to learn!

There are still a few other things I would like to change, but I want to see how things go for now.  Thanks go to Lacy at DiveBomb Media for translating my chicken-scratch handwriting into a better web page!

 

Email Subscriptions

Employers, understandably, seem to be cracking down on the accessibility of social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter during the workday and many of you have contacted me about being able to receive the blog via email so you don’t miss out on any of the free offers: of course you can!  It seems corporate IT departments have it still being okay to receive the blog’s emails and click on the links directly to the Amazon website vs. going to the blog’s Facebook page for the updates.

If you would like to receive the blog’s updates as they happen via email, just click here or type in http://www.fkbooksandtips.com/subscribe/ into your web browser to go to the signup page.  Once you are there, enter your email address and click the “Subscribe” icon.  You will then receive a confirmation email from the email server so you can confirm your subscription: you must reply to that email to ensure we are not spamming anyone.

Why not give the email subscription option a shot?  It’s free, and you can unsubscribe at any time by following the instructions at the bottom of each email.

 

The Kids’ Quote Book

As I told you in this post, my children wrote a book of daily inspirational quotes for 2013 in an effort to finance a spring break trip to Washington D.C. in March of next year.  Thanks to your support, they are halfway to achieving their goal – my wife and I thank you!

By popular request, they are now investigating what it would take to have an actual print copy of the book produced via Amazon’s publish on demand subsidiary called CreateSpace.  Who knows if that will be a reality or not, but it’s neat to watch and listen to them think of all of the possibilities and research the pros and cons (i.e, cost-benefit analysis), converting from one electronic format to another, etc.

Thanks again for all of your support!

 

Anyway, that’s about all I have for now.  Once the mystery Amazon press release tomorrow has concluded, I’m pretty certain I’ll be back with another post.

Have a great rest of the day-

Michael

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Rambling Kindle Thoughts

August 31, 2012 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

As usual with one of my “rambling” posts, I really have no set agenda…it’s time to impart a few things I have on my mind and talk about baseball (just kidding on the baseball, but I still have faith in the Rangers).  If you would like to write to me, my email address is Michael at fkbooksandtips dot com

 

Quote of the Day 2013 Book
The post I put out yesterday about the book my children wrote has been great – thank you!  (click here or type in http://bit.ly/NEzWll into your web browser in case you missed it or want to see it again).  I also appreciate the comments you have put in on the blog, and my children have loved reading the comments in the reviews of the book.  I will say I laughed out loud at my daughter’s comment to the two-star review, but I told her you have to take the bad with the good!

I’m very proud of them for showing the entrepreneurial spirit and setting a goal, mapping out a plan to achieve the goal, and seeing the smiles on their faces as they realize they completed the job at hand – they learned a lot about technology along the way – and now they are very interested in sales ranking, how they compare to similar offerings, and have taken the comments each of you have put down on the blog’s page or the reviews of the book to heart: they are discussing various options for additional books…I think collectively we have unleashed two budding entrepreneurs!

I’m sure I’ll ask (i.e., plead) again concerning the book, and I will be sure to let you know how their little venture progresses as they get closer to being able to go on the trip or not.

 

Kindle Fire Sold Out

Amazon did something a little strange yesterday – they had a press release announcing the Kindle Fire was sold out.  They’ve done that in the past, as I remember a similar press release when the original Kindle and Kindle 2 were sold out just prior to Christmas. 

The announcement of the Kindle Fire being out of stock was not the strange part, as this press release had a different twist: there was no announcement of when they would be back in stock, nor was there a prognostication or announcement of a new version.

Amazon has a mystery press conference on September 6th scheduled in a large venue – but they haven’t announced a topic for the event.  My guess is a new generation of Kindles will be announced, but since Jeff Bezos or the VP’s over at Amazon haven’t consulted with me I’m just one of the many bloggers engaging in open speculation.  My guess is Amazon, in addition to announcing a new Kindle Fire, will make the Kindle Fire available in Europe and possibly the rest of the world (more on that in the next section of this post).

Here’s what I do know:

  • The Kindle Fire is out of stock – I see used Kindle Fires for sale at a minimum of $205 from third-parties on the Amazon site
  • The refurbished Kindle Fire that also comes with a one-year warranty (same warranty as a new one) was out of stock yesterday, back in stock this morning for just $159, and are out of stock again this afternoon.  To grab one of these, you can click here or type in http://bit.ly/firedeal into your web browser to keep checking to see if they become available again.
  • The Kindle Touch – both the wireless and 3G versions  – are out of stock.

Hmmm…what do you think?  If you’re on the blog’s web page (www.fkbooksandtips.com), I’d love to hear your comments: just post away at the bottom of this post using the comment area!

I could have sworn I predicted something like this earlier this month….(I did – click here to see it).

Europe Now Has Access to the Amazon App Store
Amazon had yet another press release Wednesday night – the Amazon App Store for Android-enabled devices is now available in the UK, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain; previously, the app store had been open only to residents of the USA.

That announcement, combined with the announcement the Kindle Fire is sold out, leads me to believe the Kindle Fire will be shipped to customers in Europe – if the customers in Europe are now going to be able to legally have a Fire (and I know there are literally thousands of them already being used in Europe that arrived there by various means), Amazon’s getting ready to make some more money by selling these new Fire customers apps from their branded app store.

Makes sense to the accountant in me!

You can check out Amazon’s App Store if you click here or type in http://bit.ly/gettheapps into your web browser.

In a nutshell, there are a lot of changes…as for me, I’m hoping to have a fairly relaxing long weekend for the Labor Day holiday here in the USA and I hope you do, too!

 

Michael

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A Rambling Blog Post and Answer to Your Kindle-Related Questions

August 21, 2012 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

It’s time for another “rambling” post, where I don’t have a set agenda but have just sat down and started banging away at the keyboard and tried to answer a few questions that came my way…if you would like to write to me, my email address is Michael at fkbooksandtips dot com (I write it that way in a small effort to thwart the spammer’s robots).

 

Election Heat Map 2012

No matter what side of the political fence you may (or may not) be on during this 2012 election season here in the USA, I think all sides will agree this has become one of the nastiest presidential elections in decades: I’ll be glad when it is over and my dinner not interrupted by the latest robocall. While I have my opinions and I am sure you do, also, that’s not the purpose of this section…

Amazon has released what they are calling the “Amazon Election Heat Map 2012” which has colored each state “red” or “blue” in terms of the top-selling political books by state. They are computing percentages, updated daily, for each state and the USA by comparing the 250 best-selling “blue” books during the time period against the 250 best-selling “red” books during the same time period. You can click your mouse over each state and see what people are reading which, in my un-educated opinion, gives you a fairly good idea of what the other side is thinking.

Clicking on the individual states is interesting in a voyeuristic type of way as you see where the book-buying public of the various states are leaning and what books they are purchasing. Some states are really red, some are a kind of pinkish color, and, as I type this, only nine states and the District of Columbia are blue; Pennsylvania is grey as exactly 50% of the books purchased are blue and 50% are red. Is your state red, pink, or blue?

If you would like to take a look at this “Election Heat Map 2012” you can click here or type in http://bit.ly/heatmap2012 into your web browser.

By the way – a “blue” state represents favoring the Democratic Party and a “red state” represents favoring the Republican Party.

The #1 blue book is The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander which has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 148 customer reviews. The #1 red book is The Amateur by Edward Klein which has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 862 customer reviews.

 

 

 

The Blog’s App for the Kindle Fire

As most of you know, if you have a Kindle Fire or an Android-enabled smartphone or tablet computer, you can get a free app to read the blog on those devices. I have received several emails over the last two weeks, which tells me more of you have the same question / problem, about the book covers that are listed in the blog’s posts. The people who have emailed me are saying they don’t see the book’s cover image, for example, in the blog’s posts.

We were able to determine these folks didn’t have the most recent version of the blog’s app. If you are reading this via the blog’s free app, look at the section above – if you see the images for the cover of The New Jim Crow and The Amateur, you should be okay. If you do not, and are connected to an active Wi-Fi connection and just see a small blue square, you need to upgrade to the latest version of the free app (or, if you don’t have the app and want it for your Kindle Fire or Android-enabled smartphone or tablet computer you can get it for free). While you should have received a notice from either the Amazon App Store or the Google Play Store to update the app, here is how you can update it in about 30 seconds.

  • If you have a Kindle Fire, click here or type http://amzn.to/freefireapp in into your web browser to go to the App’s page in the Amazon App Store.
  • If you have a Google-enabled smartphone or tablet computer, click here or type in http://bit.ly/fkbtgoogle into your web browser to go to the app’s page in the Google Play Store.

 Once you get to either the Amazon or Google page, just download and install it again: you will be asked if you want to remove the previous version (which you should) before it will install.

When I had the app redesigned for the latest version, the idea was for it update faster than the previous version and to display graphics. Hope that helps!

 

Reading the Blog on an e-Ink Kindle

Now, if you don’t have a Kindle Fire and have an e-Ink Kindle, don’t feel left out – you can still read the blog on your Kindle Keyboard, Kindle Touch, etc. To cover the cellular and wireless transmission fees, Amazon will charge your account just 99 cents per month; of that 99 cents per month, Amazon gets 69 cents and I get 30 cents. As you can probably guess, I am not getting rich off of this but it has allowed me to purchase a few woodworking tools (one of my hobbies is making custom pens using a lathe).

Amazon will allow you to try out the blog’s delivery on your e-Ink Kindle for free for a two-week period and, if you don’t cancel within that two-week period, your account will be charged. If you would like to check out the free two-week trial period of this blog, you can click here or type in www.tinyurl.com/fkblog into your web browser which will open up the blog’s page on the Amazon storefront. From this page on Amazon, just click on the “Subscribe now with 1-click” button on the right-hand side of the page.

 

Donating Kindle Books

Jessica from New Jersey had this question:

I’m a big fan and really look forward to your posts. I’ve gotten A LOT of great books….thanks to you. I have a question…how can I donate a book to a library or give away a book to someone else? I have quite a few books that are not for me but that other people could really enjoy. I look forward to your reply and to your future posts.

 I could read this question one of two ways – do you want to make a one-time donation, or, similar to a paperback or hardback book you own can you give that book away (permanently) to someone else?

I’ll answer the last one first – if you purchased a Kindle book from Amazon, you cannot give it away to anyone. You can let someone else who shares your Amazon account read it at the same time you are, you can loan it to someone (assuming you purchased it), and if you are an Amazon Prime member you can borrow one book per month but you can’t give it away. I won’t get into the rationale or the reasons of why or why not, but that’s Amazon’s rule – primarily in an effort to stop illegal copying.

If you want to make a one-time donation to a library or other organization, you probably should check with your local library on their policies and procedures of being able to donate electronic books to the library: if they don’t have a policy – and that may be the case for most libraries – why not work with the library and help them develop one?

If you want to give a book as a gift to someone, and so I won’t be accused of favoring one political party over the other I’ll use both The New Jim Crow and The Amateur book I mentioned above as an example, here is how you can do it (this procedure will work with any book in the Amazon Kindle store):

  • Go to the book’s page in the Amazon Kindle Store. For The New Jim Crow click here or type in http://amzn.to/Pbs0t4 into your web browser. For The Amateur click here or type in http://amzn.to/RdFYON into your web browser.
  • If you clicked on either of those links, you should have the book’s page in the Amazon Kindle Store open.
  • On the right-hand side of the book’s page in the Amazon Kindle store, just below the “Buy now with 1-click” icon you are familiar with, you will see an icon titled “Give as a Gift;” click the “Give as a Gift” icon.
  • You will be asked to sign in to your Amazon account.
  • Once you have signed in, a new screen will open up to complete the gift purchase. Fill in the requested information, including the recipient’s email address. You can schedule it for delivery on a certain date, such as to be sent on someone’s birthday, anniversary, etc. or have the coupon delivered to you in case you wanted to personally deliver the coupon / gift certificate.
  • There is also a space to enter a personalized message (up to 300 characters) to wish the recipient happy birthday, wish you were voting Democrat / Republican, you name it!

 

Well, looking at my trusty word counter in Microsoft Word I see I’m past 1,500 words. If you read this far, whew!  Thanks!

I hope you have a great rest of the week-

Michael

 

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Random Thoughts and Answers to Your Kindle Questions

August 18, 2012 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

It’s time for another rambling post…

 

Kindle Fire Winner

 

With the most recent giveaway of the Kindle Fire, the first name drawn from the entrants didn’t contact me (still haven’t heard from her) so I was forced to draw another name; Jennifer A. of San Diego contacted me promptly and has received her brand new Kindle Fire on Friday.  She said she already had a Kindle Fire, but she was going to give this one to her husband who kept “borrowing” hers to play with and read books.  I hope both of you enjoy your Fires!

You may recall I launched this giveaway in an effort to re-populate the blog’s Facebook page after being forced to take the original one down.  Our little community has managed to re-connect with about half of the previous participants: if you would like to stop by and take a look at it, you can click here or type in http://www.facebook.com/fkbooks into your web browser.  While you’re there, why not give the page a “Like?”

If you do stop by the blog’s Facebook page, make sure you check out the “Recent Posts by Others” section on the right-hand side: independent authors are free to post about their free book offers, and they are posting in this section.

 

Refurbished Kindle Fires

 

Yesterday, I told you Amazon was running a deal on refurbished Kindle Fires: for just $159, or $40 less than a new Kindle Fire, you can get a refurbished Fire that looks brand new and comes with free shipping and the same one-year warranty as a new one.  There are still some left, so if you want one you can click here                         or type in http://bit.ly/firedeal into your web browser.

 

Default Dictionary on an e-Ink Kindle

 

This seems to be the week people are asking me about the dictionary pre-loaded on your Kindle.

Your Kindle comes pre-loaded with a dictionary, which is handy at times to look up various words and other things you may not know the definition or context the author is using.  For example, the standard dictionary on my Kindle is called The New Oxford American Dictionary, and is the 2008 version published by the Oxford University Press; I find it ironic an American dictionary is published by a company with a UK-sounding name, as we don’t use the Queen’s version of English over here but then again, I have a strange sense of humor.

Sense of humor aside, that brings up the point I want to make: what if you want to use some other dictionary, say in another language or one that uses the Queen’s English, or Spanish, a specialized topic, etc.?  Amazon has a special category with well over 100 dictionaries that can be changed to be your default dictionary.  You can click here or type in http://bit.ly/kindledictionary into your computer’s web browser and shop away.

 

Want a medical dictionary?  They have it: click here for an example.

 

Spanish to English?  It’s the #1 dictionary in this section: click here for an example.

 

English to French?  Click here for an example.

 

Looking for a Bible dictionary?  Click here for an example.

 

A review of the Top 20 best-selling dictionaries you can make as your default Kindle dictionary has most of the “major” languages (defined in terms of the world’s population), each of which you can put on your Kindle.

 

The next question you will have is, “how do I make one of these my default dictionary” vs. staying with the default New Oxford dictionary.  Of course I am going to tell you it is pretty easy (because it is), and here is how you do it:

 

  1. I’ll start off with you need to buy or acquire from one of the free sites a new dictionary; I would stick with one from the Amazon Kindle store as they have been formatted and tested to work with your Kindle – I know, that’s not a free book, but the point I want to make is you want to make sure it works (and not giving you a bogus definition to boot).  Additionally, if you don’t have another dictionary on your Kindle the following instructions will not work at all.
  2. Once you have acquired this new dictionary and have it on your Kindle, go to your Kindle’s Home screen (press the “Home” button).
  3. Press the “Menu” button.
  4. Scroll down and select the “Settings” option.
  5. Press the “Menu” button again.
  6. Move the controller to underline the dictionary you want to use and select it.

 

Hope that helps!

 

Traveling with a Kindle

 

Sharon E. sent me this note:

Michael, first thank you for all the free offers of books.  I have accumulated quite a few and enjoy them very much.  We are getting ready to leave (in 3 weeks) on an Alaskan cruise and I am wondering about reading my Kindle while on the ship.  Do I need to download the books I want to read before leaving so that I will not have to use the wi-fi onboard ship?  The cost for internet service on the ship is expensive.  Can I read in the Kindle without the internet being turned on?
I know I do here at home, but I haven’t downloaded the full books yet as some are in the Cloud.  This may not make a bit of sense.  By the way, I just knew I was going to win that Kindle Fire this time, but I didn’t.  Congrats to the one that did.  Thank you for your help.

If you have a Kindle with 3G, accessing the Internet should not be a problem as long as you are onshore or in port.  If you are relying upon the ship’s wireless, it can be a challenge and is quite expensive: my family went on a cruise last year and, while I was able to connect via 3G when we were in port (Mexico, Grand Cayman, and Jamaica), the Wi-Fi service on the ship while at sea was expensive, spotty at best, and extremely unreliable – even in the areas where they said it was a Wi-Fi hotspot (we were on Royal Caribbean).

I had a lot of books loaded on my Kindle as a just in case – I actually have way too many books on my main Kindle as it is.  If I were you, I would download at least half a dozen books or more to your Kindle before you leave.  Nothing could be worse than just having a few books on your Kindle and, while at sear with no capability to connect to the Internet, realize (a) the book you’re reading now is bad and you’re ready to move on, followed by (b) not having the capability to move on to another book because your Kindle was empty.

Your Kindle will store hundreds of books electronically: it costs nothing ot kep the books on your Kindle, so why not leave them there until you are done with them?

 

Anyway, that’s enough rambling for now…I hope each of you are having a great weekend!

Michael

 

 

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My Other Blogs

August 12, 2012 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

I am sending this out to each of my blogs…if you receive this more than once, feel free to delete it as I will be back soon with a new post.

Several times a week, I get asked a question via email along the lines of “…are you the same person who does the other Kindle blog named…?”

The answer is probably, “yes,” as I publish a total of six blogs that are available on the Kindle.

I believe one of the neat things about the Kindle “experience” is your Kindle is much more than an eBook reader – I use the free wireless service to check email, follow the scores for my favorite teams via ESPN’s mobile website, and check the weather forecast. As I type this, there are over 13,000 blogs available to be sent directly to your e-Ink Kindle. Some of them update several times per day, just once a day, a few times per week, or a couple of times per month.

A blog subscription to be sent directly to your e-Ink Kindle costs 99 cents per month – I don’t know how they come up with the pricing as Amazon sets the pricing on the blogs. With respect to each of my blogs on the Kindle platform, of the 99 cents Amazon gets 69 cents and I get 30 cents. As you can probably guess, I am not getting rich off of this but it does allow me to purchase a few woodworking tools on occasion, and has helped to pay for my Christmas vacation in the past!

Amazon allows you to check each blog out for free on your e-Ink Kindle for a two-week period, and you can cancel within that two-week period at any time with no cost to you. There are quite a few blogs out there I think are pretty interesting, and I subscribe to a few myself.

In no particular order, here are the six blogs I have available for reading on your Kindle.

Free Kindle Books and Tips

Free Kindle Books and Tips is my largest blog in terms of Kindle subscribers as well as the number of people who either read it on the web, with the free Kindle Fire app, email subscription, Facebook, and Twitter. I’ve been very fortunate with this blog as it has been the #1 bestselling paid subscription Kindle blog since 2010, and has been in the Top 100 of all Kindle titles (books, magazines, blogs) for almost two years. What is it all about?  As new free titles become available in the Amazon Kindle store or places in addition to the Kindle store, I provide a brief synopsis of the book as well as the link to download it to your Kindle for your enjoyment.

Based upon my own experiences as well as what I have been able to find out from others, I also provide reviews of and information about the numerous sites that offer free material, tips on how to maximize your Kindle experience, and various other Kindle-related information I think is interesting. Maybe you will, too. If you would like to check it out the free two-week trial of this blog, you can click here or just type in www.tinyurl.com/fkblog into your web browser: this shortened web address will save you from typing in a really long series of characters and will take you right to the blog’s Amazon page.

From the blog page on Amazon, just click on the “Subscribe now with 1-click” button on the right-hand side of the page. You have two weeks to try it out for free (and free is the name of the game).


Bible Verse of the Day

If you did a search for my name in the Kindle Blog section of the Amazon store, you will also see the Bible Verse of the Day blog I also publish: you can check out the two-week free trial if you click here or type in http://tinyurl.com/bvoftheday into your web browser and click on the “Subscribe now with 1-click” button on the right-hand side of the page.

Any receipts I receive from Amazon for this blog (again, after Amazon’s cut) are donated to The Nehemiah Center of Houston, a Houston, TX based charity which is a Christian-based organization that offers academic, emotional, cultural, social, and spiritual enrichment to the children and families in the MacGregor Elementary School Area just outside Houston’s Third Ward. I have visited this facility, and they are making a tremendous difference in the lives of hundreds of at-risk children. You can find out more about the Nehemiah Center of Houston by pointing your web browser to www.nehemiahcenterhouston.org

Thanks to the generosity of this blog’s subscribers as well as their direct contributions, collectively we have donated over $7,000 to this charity since 2010.

You can always visit this blog’s website at http://gbvd.wordpress.com

Kindle Books for a Buck (or Less)

This is a supplemental blog to the Free Kindle Books and Tips blog. Each weekday, I spotlight a book in the Amazon Kindle store that costs all of a dollar or less (sometimes free) with an emphasis on the independent author.

The main purpose of this blog is to focus on the many independent, self-published authors that typically fall under the radar screen amidst all of the noise from the “headline” authors I have really enjoyed. I think you will enjoy it, too, as you will come across recommendations of many genres – plus the purchase price of one dollar (or less) is a pretty easy price point vs. throwing down ten or more bucks for something.

You can check out the two-week free trial if you click here type in http://amzn.to/kb4abuck into your computer’s web browser and click on the “Subscribe now with 1-click” button on the right-hand side of the page.

You can always visit this blog’s website at http://ebooksforabuck.wordpress.com

Trivia of the Day

This blog features random trivia and facts hand-picked and designed to give you a “leg-up” on your friends, relatives, and co-workers…you should know this stuff! If you read this one for just a week, you will know a heck of a lot of random trivia and people may think you are like Cliff from “Cheers.” To try out the two-week free trial, just click here or type in http://tinyurl.com/toftheday into your computer’s web browser and click on the “Subscribe now with 1-click” button on the right-hand side of the page.

You can always visit this blog’s website at http://triviaoftheday.wordpress.com


Quote of the Day

This blog features inspiring quotes from famous and everyday people to start your day – sometimes wise, sometimes humorous, you are sure to find something that will inspire you in your walk of life. To try out this one’s two-week free trial, just click here or type in http://tinyurl.com/qoftheday into your computer’s web browser click on the “Subscribe now with 1-click” button on the right-hand side of the page.

You can always visit this blog’s website at http://gqod.wordpress.com


On This Day in History

Have you ever wondered what happened on a particular day, such as historical events, birthdays, deaths, worldwide holidays, etc.? Well, the On This Day in History blog will tell you – every morning you will receive the unique events of that day directly to your Kindle. The listed events are not just USA-specific, but worldwide. To try out this one’s two-week free trial, just click here or type in http://tinyurl.com/otdhistory into your computer’s web browser click on the “Subscribe now with 1-click” button on the right-hand side of the page.

You can always visit this blog’s website at http://otday.wordpress.com

 

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A Rambling Post

August 10, 2012 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

It’s that time again…time for me to ramble a bit and share some information. If you would like to write to me, you can send an email to michael at fkbooksandtips dot com

 

Last Week’s Kindle Fire Giveaway

Last week’s Kindle Fire giveaway, launched in order to rebuild the blog’s Facebook page in light of the I went through of having to take the old one down, was very successful. We were able to recover a little more than 50% of our lost FB brethren in less than a week! If you would like to see the new Facebook page, you can : click here or type in http:// www.facebook.com/fkbooks into your web browser.

The winner of the Kindle Fire was Wendy S., and I had a lot of people named Wendy S. contact me wanting to know if they were the winner – unfortunately for them, it was a different Wendy S.

I’m still waiting for the official Wendy S. to contact me so if your name is Wendy, and your last name starts with an S., please check both your email account and your Facebook messaging account for a note from me! If I don’t hear from you by noon on Sunday, I will have to select another winner!

And, in answer to the questions going through some of your minds right now, I do know Wendy’s last name: I’m choosing not to publish it here for privacy reasons!

 

$110 Off a New Kindle DX

 

 

Amazon is having a one-day only sale today for the Kindle DX, taking $110 off of the normal price which makes it $269 vs. the normal price of $379. The DX has a massive 9.7 inch reading screen, has free international 3G, has a good battery life, a built-in PDF reader, and with the e-Ink screen you can read it in the sun by the pool (or anywhere else outside) with no problem.

I have a Kindle DX, and I actually enjoy reading on it more than my trusty Kindle Keyboard.

The $110 off deal is for today only, so if you are interested in one you better act now because today is the day. To check out the deal, you can click here or type in http://amzn.to/P2IfZZ into your web browser.

 

Note from a Reader

Here’s a nice note I received from blog reader Wendee H., that made my day yesterday:

Hi Michael,
Just want to let you know that I like the simplicity of your daily blogs.  Having a forum in which I can simply peruse a short list of books while standing in line or waiting for something makes my day.  Because your variety continually changes, it allows me to control my library (somewhat) and not over download.  Plus I have now branched out of my comfort zone and am beginning to try new genres because of your site.  And I thank you for that.
Continue to do what you do.  Wendee

Thank you, Wendee!

 

Free App of the Day

Several people have pointed out I haven’t been posting about the free app of the day everyday like I used to, and wanted to know why.  The answer is that’s because some of the offerings over the past week or two looked….crappy (I’m told that’s a technical term in the software business) and have had overall reviews averaging less than three stars.

For the free book offerings, I generally – if not all of the time – limit to telling you about free books that are rated four stars and higher.  If something on Amazon is rated a three star, that means it is “okay’ to those users who bothered to write a review, and if it is rated two stars it means “I don’t like it.”

Why tell you about something that people believe is a bad product?  I’d rather stick to those apps and books that are rated 4 stars and higher.

While I’m on my soapbox, if you feel strongly one way or another about a product you have purchased from the Amazon website, why not write your own review?  In addition to looking at the “star” reviews, I also read the context of the written part of the review to see if they words match up to the rating. I’m certain others would appreciate your thoughts and opinions – I know I would!

Anyway, that’s enough for now.  I hope you have a great rest of your Friday as well as an enjoyable weekend!

Michael

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