amazon kindle fact bits
Hacker Igor Skochinsky used DRM to load Mobipocket books onto his Kindle. Using a series of scripts, he's able to convert eBook files to Amazon's AZW format and then add the necessary serial number DRM, specialized per an individual's particular Kindle.
Being at home on a rainy day, but wanting to read some new novel that just came out, you can have it in seconds. This concept (not hobbled by DRM) is pretty damned liberating.
Devices like the Sony Reader, Cybook, and Kindle DO NOT have glowing LCD screens.
A cheap casioppeia allows me to read ebooks around 2001.
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In the spotlight: kindle cover
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amazon kindle news
Solar-powered Kindle cover dropping at CES
(Credit: SolarFocus) With the first solar-powered Kindle cover debuting at CES this week, the 'e' in e-reader could also stand for "eco-friendly." The SolarKindle cover allows you to read all the Al Gore and Bill McKibben titles you can download in the greenest manner imaginable--no trees ground into pulp for the pages, no coal burned in power plants to charge up your Kindle's battery. In fact ... ...

New Solar Powered Kindle Cover Released
Innovation is key to what makes news at this year's 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show, and SolarFocus has done just that by introducing its solar-powered Kindle cover. The company showed off its new SolarKindle Lighted Cover that can allow users to read their e-book for three days off of a one-hour charge in good sunlight. The case is "designed to be lightweight and thin" in order to ... ...

Solar Powered Kindle Cover to Debut at CES 2012
SolarFocus will introduce SolarKindle, billed as ?the world?s first solar powered e-reader cover? at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) which gets underway on Monday. The cover will have a built-in solar panel with a dual-charging (USB and solar) reserve battery. The company said that there is ?a guarentee of three-months of unplugged Kindle use? under ... ...

Solar-powered Kindle cover unveiled at CES
The first solar-powered Kindle cover is set to go on display at consumer electronics show International CES starting from January 10 and will be available to buy from January 15. Â Â Â ...

Going Green: Solar-powered Kindle cover
A company called SolarFocus, specializing in portable solar-charging solutions, unveiled a solar-powered cover for the Amazon Kindle at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show. ...
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