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The Bible in a Year
Aaron and Miriam Speak Against Moses
"It is day 62, and we are reading from numbers, chapter 12 and 13 deuteronomy chapter 11 in psalm 94. Numbers chapter 12 Aaron and Miriam speak against Moses. Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the kushite woman whom he had married. For he had married a kushite woman, and they said, has the lord indeed spoken only through Moses? Has he not spoken through us also? And the lord heard it. Now the man Moses was very meek. More than all men that were on the face of the earth and suddenly the lord said to Moses and to Aaron and Miriam come out you three to the tent of meeting. And the three of them came out. And that the lord came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the door of the tent and called Aaron and Miriam, and they both came forward, and he said here my words if there is a profit among you, I the lord make myself known to him in a vision, I speak with him in a dream. Not so with my servant Moses. He is entrusted with all my house, with him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in dark speech. And he beholds the form of the lord. Why then, were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses? And the anger of the lord was kindled against them, and he departed, and when the cloud removed from over the tent, behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow. And Aaron turned toward Miriam, and behold she was leprous. And Aaron said to Moses, my lord, do not punish us because we have done foolishly and have sinned. Let her not be as one dead. Of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb. And Moses cried to the lord. Heal her oh God, I beg you. if her father had but spit in her face, should she not be shamed 7 days? Let her be shut up outside the camp 7 days, and after that, she may be brought in again.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
What Must Young Boys Be Taught About Manhood? David Azerrad Explains
"Are to write the ship, if we are to restore classic concepts of manhood and masculinity, what do young boys in America in the English speaking world need to be taught? What is on the, what is the non negotiable minimum on the syllabus of what we teach young boys? One thing we have haven't discussed that is a component of manliness is a certain spirit for adventure and risk-taking and daring. So there's the element of duty, but there's a bit of an element of danger. And part of the feminine feminization of society is the safetyism is the risk of this. Yeah, risk averse, the helicopter parents, the snowplow parents. So I think there should be the snow plant parents. No, I heard it is as in America like you clear all the obstacles before the child. So the helicopters you hover or blend them to make sure they're safe. This is no obstacles before them. So I'm embracing that, embracing. So one is, I think there should be more unstructured play and being outdoors and no helmets and scraping your knees and getting lost, then you don't need to call every 5 minutes. But then second, I would have them read stories of adventure. Rollicking adventure. Of explorers. And there is going to be violence in there and, you know, it's fine. I mean, you don't want to raise a brute, it goes without saying, but something that kindles their imagination. You know, when you look at the public square today at the prominent people, one thing that always strikes me is how uninspiring and unmanly the goals they set for themselves are. Like you ask any billionaire, what do you want to do with your money? I want to cure cancer. And look, that's a commendable goal. But it's basically living longer.
The Bible in a Year
Day 349 of The Bible in a Year: Paul on the Island of Malta
"Were reading access the apostles chapter 28, the final chapter, as well as flipping chapters one and two, pro group chapter 29 versus 25 through 27. The acts of the apostles, chapter 28. Paul on the island of Malta. After we had escaped, we then learned that the island was called Malta, and the natives showed us unusual kindness for the Kindle to fire and welcomed us all because it had begun to rain and was cold. Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and put them on the fire when a viper came out because of the heat and fastened on his hand. When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, no doubt this man is a murderer, though he has escaped from the sea, justice is not allowed him to live. He, however, shook off the creature into the fire and suffered no harm. They waited, expecting him to swell up or suddenly fall down dead. But when they had waited a long time and saw no misfortune come to him, they changed their minds and said that he was a God. Now in the neighborhood of that place where lands belonging to the chief man of the island named publius, who received us and entertained us hospitably for three days. It happened that the father of publius lay sick with fever and dysentery, and Paul visited him and prayed, and putting his hands on him, healed him, and when they had taken place, the rest of the people on the island who had diseases also came and were cured. They presented many gifts to us, and when we sailed, they put on board whatever we needed. Paul comes to Rome. After three months, we set sail in a ship which had wintered in the island, a ship of Alexandria, with the twin brothers as figurehead. Putting in at Syracuse, we stayed there for three days. And from there we made a circuit and arrived at regium, and after one day a south wind sprang up, and on the second day, we came to put yoli. There we found brethren, and were invited to stay with them for 7 days. And so we came to Rome. And the brethren there, when they heard of us, came as far as the form of appius and three taverns to meet us. On seeing them, Paul thanked God and took courage. And when we came into Rome, Paul was allowed to stay by himself with the soldier that guarded him. Paul and Jewish leaders in Rome. After three days, he called together the local leaders of the Jews, and when they had gathered, he said to them. Brethren, though I had done nothing against the people or the customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans. When they had examined me, they wished to set me at liberty because there was no reason for the death penalty in my case. But when the Jews objected, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar, though I had no charge to bring against my nation. For this reason, therefore, I have asked to see you and speak with you, since it is because of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain.
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Art Ally: A Special Anniversary Price for 'Invested With Purpose'
"Another great resource. It's a new book. Called invested with purpose, which you wrote and folks can get up there's an anniversary prize. I mean, this is a discount deal a buck 99 on Kindle. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't want to do that, but they pounded on me for 5 years. And I finally came to the conclusion, you know, what a witness this book is because it documents God's direct hand in Timothy over these 28 years and there's no other explanation for it. So he still is in business. He is still acting with his people and we can trust him. The only question, I think he has us can he trust you and to find that out, you've got to go through the fire and that's why the Bible says, you know, in all these things rejoice, you go through the fire and come out the other side. I don't know, I guess when I get to heaven, I might ask him, but I don't think up here. That's great. Or you can call people can call us if they are not technologically advanced. Just one 810 plan, a human being answers a phone and will connect you with a human being who will answer all of your questions.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Dr. Michael Youssef Sees Satan Preparing the World for the Antichrist
"Welcome back. I'm talking to doctor Michael youssef, who has a new book out called is the end near and doctor yousef, you are talking about specifics. Why we should why we must recognize that things have changed dramatically around the world. You were talking about the birth pains that the space between the birth pains is growing less and less, which is a sign of the imminent birth, the sign of the lord's return, the sign of it. So when you look at those things, where do you see us? Because I know there are many people who believe, as I do, that there is going to be revival that the current season of madness has woken a lot of people up. And so that in some ways it's been a blessing to the remnant to the church for those outside the church who look at the church and think that there's some people in the church who are speaking up who see these things. And at the same time, there's a kind of a diminuendo toward the end. Sure. Look, I would long for that. I have prayed for an awakening for 45 years. And I would long to see an awakening. The misunderstand me, it really is. But if we are coming toward the end, my friend, doctor Kindle, we've been friends for many, many, many decades, and he believes they're going to have a revival before the return of the lord. That's wonderful. It's the case. On the other hand, I am seeing, as we talked before the break about the COVID-19 and people become sheep and follow and rationalize why they need to be obedient to the authoritarian government and that is to me, at least and I've got to express my opinion rather than the word of God that when I say thus there's a lot to make sure that this is a lot. But if I have an opinion, is I believe Satan is preparing the world for the Antichrist.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
The Left Hasn't Won Yet
"Fires will be kindled to testify that two and two make four. Swords will be drawn to prove that leaves are green in summer. The time has arrived, we are ready. Thank you. Okay, that was the end great. That's it, Chesterton wrote that Justin was a prophet. That's exactly correct. Swords are drawn too into his foreman menstruate. Excuse me. Ben don't menstruate. See, swords will be drawn in order to protect the idea that leaves turn green in summer and that two and two is four. That's exactly the age in which we live. The Oregon education department said, in fact, that math is white supremacist. And insisting that there's one correct answer to a mathematical equation or problem. That's she knows what's happening. The left hasn't won yet.
The Charlie Kirk Show
White House Refuses to Acknowledge We're in a Recession
"46, Montage of CNN and MSNBC saying that a recession is two consecutive quarters of falling GDP, and yet The White House refuses to acknowledge we're in a recession, play tape. Two consecutive quarters of negative growth, the definition of a recession is a decline in output for two consecutive quarters or about 6 months. A recession is just two consecutive quarters of economic decline. When we talk about the possibility of a recession, what is a recession? A recession is two consecutive quarters. Two consecutive quarters. Two consecutive quarters, two consecutive quarters of declining GDP because as you know, it's two consecutive quarters of down GDP. That signals it is actually a definition of a recession. Now, that was all when Trump was president, and now they refuse to say this on TV. This is Biden's press release. Quote, coming off last year's historic economic growth. Let's pause. Last year did not have historic economic growth. It was fake growth, brought to you by a potemkin village House of Cards, a sugar high. You know what that's like saying? It's like saying, boy, I ran really far after chugging an entire leader of Coca-Cola. Yeah, but good luck running a marathon on that. You don't have any sort of nutritional basis to keep the fire going, man. It's like trying to build a campfire in the wild. I'm just kindling. You're going to need some firewood, you're going to need some sustainability. Go eat a bunch of sugars, go eat a bunch of kit kats, M and ms and skittles and try to play a basketball game. You'll have a lot of energy for about 5 minutes. Biden continues and regaining all the private sector jobs lost during the pandemic crisis. It's no surprise that the economy is slowing down. Oh, it's slowing down. As the Federal Reserve acts to bring down inflation, but even as we face historic global challenges, we're on the right path. We'll continue through this transition stronger and more secure. They love that word transition.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Who Was More Important: Martin Luther or John Calvin?
"Question number one, who was more important. Martin Luther or John Calvin. I don't know. I wrote a book about Martin Luther. He's German, I love him. He's an amazing figure and just an absolutely amazing figure. I don't get that impression of John Calvin. I don't think a biography in John Kevin would be as interesting. But what do I know? The real answer is I don't know. But actually, I think my Martin Luther book is available on Kindle for four 99. I just heard that. Like yesterday, by the way, that just occurred to me. We don't put these questions into sell my books, folks. I'm probably losing money on that deal. But I'm extremely proud of the Martin Luther book. And I don't know enough about John Calvin to answer that. I would my guess would be Martin
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Sinister Rise of Race Marxism with Dr. James Lindsay
"And he has been one of the few people that has been willing to really critique the woke industrial complex he is the author of a new book called race Marxism, the truth about critical race theory and praxis. What is that? Well, we're going to ask him about it. James, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk show. Hey, Charlie, what's up? So first, I can't find your book anywhere except in the Kindle edition. What's that all about? What it's about is that we're publishing it through the Amazon direct publishing that through the new discourses imprint the from our own company new discourses rather than going through a big box. So that's the only option they give for pre order. So you can pre order the Kindle now, the paperback will be available on the 15th of February, so it's coming soon. And I have a pretend paperback here. So it really will exist. But pre orders are Kindle only until the 15th. Very good. Tell us about the book. So, you know, there's no honest word about critical race theory out there. There's a lot of stuff that is critical race theory being critical race theory and doing what critical race theory does in its own words within its kind of own bubble of interpretation. And then there's virtually nothing from the outside because people who are outside of critical race theory very rarely have the interest to dig deep, of course, it's changed over the last year or two. So there's no truly deep dive that explains what critical race theory really is. And so I wanted to fill that niche. It's obviously the hottest topic in the world. I think it's one of them. I think it's one of the most dangerous subjects that we're dealing with in the world right now. So I felt like it was an important niche to fill. So it covers what is the definition of critical race theory? How does critical research operate like a belief system and what are its beliefs? Where did this come from? Where did those ideas come from tracking all the way back to Marx and Hegel and Rousseau and then how does it work? And then finally, what are some ideas of things we might be able to do about critical race theory since it
AP News Radio
Major outage hits Amazon Web Services; many sites affected
"Amazon's Amazon's online online retail retail operation operation was was among among the the many many users users of of the the company's company's cloud cloud service service network network that that suffer suffer disruptions disruptions because because of of Tuesday's Tuesday's major major outage outage a a director director at at the the network network intelligence intelligence firm firm can can tech tech says says it it began began mid mid morning morning on on the the east east coast coast many many companies companies that that rely rely on on Amazon Amazon web web services services found found their their sites sites not not working working Doug Doug majority majority thinks thinks it's it's a a glitch glitch link link to to the the product product of of automation automation and and centralized centralized administration administration and and not not a a malicious malicious attack attack Amazon's Amazon's cloud cloud services services used used by by delta delta airlines airlines for for ticketing ticketing Toyota Toyota for for dealer dealer services services make make Donald's Donald's Instacart Instacart Netflix Netflix kindle kindle the the Associated Associated Press Press in in Amazon's Amazon's own own warehouse warehouse and and retail retail delivery delivery operations operations the the company company says says it it appears appears mostly mostly businesses businesses on on the the east east coast coast were were affected affected by by the the hours hours long long outage outage I'm I'm Jackie Jackie Quinn Quinn
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Chris Christie's New Book Is Bombing
"Chris Christie has been making the rounds. The former governor of New Jersey. And has a book, a new book out. That according to the daily mail in the first week available in bookstores, Chris Christie's book titled Republican rescue, sold just 2289 total copies. It's bombing. Press run author Eric bohler called the sales figures, a colossal publishing flop and debacle for Chris Christie. 2289 copies, meager book sales. Now Chris Christie is saying you've got to reject Trump. I mean, he's a friend of Trump, but he said he disagreed with Trump completely over January 6th. He says we got to put January 6th or we got to put the election of 2020 behind us. We got to look forward. Well, guess what? The dogs don't like the food. Apparently. And Chris Christie's book as of Tuesday of this week, Chris Christie's book was ranked number 12,589 in Amazon's Kindle store.
AP News Radio
COVID-19 and pregnancy: Women regret not getting the vaccine
"An expectant mother who lost her baby after falling ill with coded nineteen is urging other women to get vaccinated against the deadly virus kindle Nipper lives in Georgia and had just a short bout with the corona virus but it was enough to cause a miscarriage in July just weeks from her baby boy's due date I did everything I could have possibly done the only thing I could do that I will have to carry with me see her doctor says the placenta was infected with the virus which likely hindered the baby's ability to get oxygen and nutrients nippers teamed up with Amanda Harrison who contracted cove it it had to be intubated but she and her baby survived and then it's almost like a survivor's guilt the two women are sharing stories in an attempt to persuade pregnant women to get covert nineteen vaccinations to protect themselves and their babies I'm Jackie Quinn
Techmeme Ride Home
Amazon Kindle Paperwhite: Everything You Need to Know
"Itself seemed to leak updated kindle paper white devices with larger six point eight inch displays in two variants eight gigabytes for one hundred and forty nine dollars canadian and thirty two gigabytes for two hundred and nine dollars ninety nine cents canadian both with seventeen. Led's quoting good e reader. Amazon is going to be releasing a new kindle paper white in the next few days the reader will have a six point eight inch screen and we'll come. In two variants the kindle paper white five will have eight gigabytes of storage and the kindle paper white signature edition we'll have thirty two gigabytes of storage the product listings are not live but you can learn a little bit about the new devices on the product description page of the kindle basic and can oasis currently. You can view those on the canadian site. They have product pages but they linked to a four page right now. The new kindle paper white five and paperwork five signature edition will both employ a six point eight inch screen with three hundred p. p. i. And the screen will be flush with the basil they will have seventeen white and amber led lights. So you'll be able to use the typical display and it also has the same color temperature system the kennel oasis three employees. This lighting system is a huge upgrade. The paperweight for only has five. Led lights these signature edition will also have auto adjusting light sensors so they will automatically change the brightness of the screen based on the environmental lighting. It will also have wireless charging capabilities and amazon. We'll be selling a new kit. You will be able to connect to wi fi to purchase audio books and e books on the amazon bookstore. The product listing page does not mention a cellular version for an extra fee the kindle paper white five will retail for one hundred forty nine dollars canadian and the eight gigabyte model for two hundred nine dollars. Ninety nine cents. Canadian for the kindle signature edition the prices will likely be lower in the united states when the listing goes live in a couple of days. You can bookmark the product description pages right now and they will likely be going live sometime in the next twenty four hours and quote.
Techmeme Ride Home
Amazon Leaks New Kindle Paperwhite With Larger 6.8-Inch Display
"This one is not an official release but an official leak. Maybe amazon itself seemed to leak updated kindle paper white devices with larger six point eight inch displays in two variants eight gigabytes for one hundred and forty nine dollars canadian and thirty two gigabytes for two hundred and nine dollars ninety nine cents canadian both with seventeen. Led's quoting good e reader. Amazon is going to be releasing a new kindle paper white in the next few days the reader will have a six point eight inch screen and we'll come. In two variants the kindle paper white five will have eight gigabytes of storage and the kindle paper white signature edition we'll have thirty two gigabytes of storage the product listings are not live but you can learn a little bit about the new devices on the product description page of the kindle basic and can oasis currently. You can view those on the canadian site. They have product pages but they linked to a four page right now. The new kindle paper white five and paperwork five signature edition will both employ a six point eight inch screen with three hundred p. p. i. And the screen will be flush with the basil they will have seventeen white and amber led lights. So you'll be able to use the typical display and it also has the same color temperature system the kennel oasis three employees. This lighting system is a huge upgrade. The paperweight for only has five. Led lights these signature edition will also have auto adjusting light sensors so they will automatically change the brightness of the screen based on the environmental lighting. It will also have wireless charging capabilities and amazon. We'll be selling a new kit. You will be able to connect to wi fi to purchase audio books and e books on the amazon bookstore. The product listing page does not mention a cellular version for an extra fee the kindle paper white five will retail for one hundred forty nine dollars canadian and the eight gigabyte model for two hundred nine dollars. Ninety nine cents. Canadian for the kindle signature
Daily Tech Headlines
Apple to Let Reader Apps Link to Sign up Websites
"Part of an agreement with japan fair trade commission apple announced it will let developers of reader apps like netflix spotify and kindle directly linked customers to a sign up website. The commission has been investigating apple since two thousand sixteen for suspected violations of the anti-monopoly act and this agreement will close that investigation in the press. Release apple appeared to clarify what constitutes reader app saying developers. Rear apps do not offer in-app digital goods and services for purchase
Daily Tech News Show
Amazon’s Older Kindles Will Start to Lose Their Internet Access in December
"Amazon's kindle readers come with built in data connection meaning. You can buy and download books wherever you are. But that only last as long as the system providing the connectivity does to g connections went away years ago and the bell is now being wrong for three g. Starting in december amazon kindles won't be able to connect by three g meaning. That older kindles without wi fi are left without a connection and three g only kindles will only have their wifi connections devices with wi files. Still be able to access the kindle store of course over wifi and kindles with four g. won't be affected at all amazon's offering some trade ins though if you're going to be in this boat you've got till december to figure it out the first and second gen kindles didn't even have wifi so they get the most generous options. I john owners can get a free kindle oasis first second. Dx and second gen kindle keyboard third gen owners so the first and second dax second gen and kindle keyboard third gen owners can get seventy five dollars off a paper white or oasis and twenty five dollars an e book credits and the rest of the affected batch have wi fi but amazon is still offering fifty dollars off a paper white or no acis in fifteen dollars an e book credits to those
Daily Tech News Show
Old Amazon Kindle Devices Will Soon Lose 3G Access
"Amazon's kindle readers come with built in data connection meaning. You can buy and download books wherever you are. But that only last as long as the system providing the connectivity does to g connections went away years ago and the bell is now being wrong for three g. Starting in december amazon kindles won't be able to connect by three g meaning. That older kindles without wi fi are left without a connection and three g only kindles will only have their wifi connections devices with wi files. Still be able to access the kindle store of course over wifi and kindles with four g. won't be affected at all amazon's offering some trade ins though if you're going to be in this boat you've got till december to figure it out the first and second gen kindles didn't even have wifi so they get the most generous options. I john owners can get a free kindle oasis first second. Dx and second gen kindle keyboard third
Revision Path
Interview With Maxwell VanHook, Creative Director at Amazon
"All right so tell us who you are and what you do. I am maxwell van hook. I am from baltimore maryland. Currently my professional life. I am in associate creative director on the amazon devices team. So that basically intel's anything that has alexa in it but it also involves the devices that amazon makes so you can think about your echo. Dots echo shows kindles emerging platforms. Like amazon luna was cloud gaming outside of my professional life. I made music lover. I'm also the co host of designing while black along with becca markham. So that sorta comprises. I am first and foremost. I would say with all of those things i i like to show up as a friend. So i'm disa- friend support system end a champion of other people's dreams. I like to see people succeed like to see people win house the going so far the years been good. I'm not gonna lie to you when kobe hit. I think that i had some psychological in emotional barriers. No just in terms of shifting. My schedule i had a routine i would get up every day. Probably around six thirty seven o'clock Do whatever i need to do for the morning. Get dressed go to work. Probably get coffee. When i went to work. And so it gets kinda monotonous in all of that broke down once kobe hidden so now i'm at home now with my wife and i'm with my cat and nobody's really going outside and so added create new routines for myself. I had to learn how to work out with my home. I learned how to learn how to run with my own idol. Learn how to make sure that was keeping my mind active. No outside of my day to day work and i also need to figure out how to keep myself emotionally and mentally stable. So it's been good. 'cause i learned a lot about myself I really had to scrutinize what i want from life and allow me to be still
The Kindle Chronicles
"kindle" Discussed on The Kindle Chronicles
"Now tell you about the change Coming ahead for the kindle chronicles. I've noticed in the past that many of the podcasts. I admire divide themselves into seasons like television series and one advantage of this music. There are parts of the year when there are no new episodes. And i think the you know people putting on these podcasts. Use that time to take a break. Relax plan the next season. And so as i deep in my exploration of the unplugged life the summer. I've decided to do something similar with the kindle. Chronicles so next week's episode will be the concluding one for a very long thirteen years season which began on july twenty six two thousand and eight so that will be thirteen years as of this. July twenty six Season two will begin on friday september tenth and that will be two days after the conclusion of my. See you in. September sabbatical my ninety days off the facebook twitter instagram and most of my regular news subscriptions Between the seasons. I will explore possible changes to the show. But at this thing i think it'll mainly be a one month pause and the proceedings August is my birthday month. All turns seventy one. On august thirtieth. So that appeals to me as time between seasons If you have any suggestions for what season two might look like. I hope you'll consider sending me email at pod. Chronicles at gmail.com. I do intend to keep posting my.
The Kindle Chronicles
"kindle" Discussed on The Kindle Chronicles
"July sixteenth. Twenty twenty one. And i'm coming to you from ocean park maine looking at the ocean as the it gets kinda dark out there. Time is a quarter to nine. My guest. this week is rob drake. Who is the new president of the ocean park association that's an organization that goes way back into the last century and is still active and is a big part of why this community which is a part of old orchard. Beach maine That It has just such a intriguing come quality to it and had a chance to talk to robert about that and it turns out. He's also someone who goes to santa bell each winter with his wife. So we've had a coincidence there to talk about Later in this episode. I'm going to talk to you about a change that i've decided to make in the kindle chronicles and I'll i'll save that till the end of the show of you. Want to skip ahead that it's not Earth shattering but It is a change which i made this summer. That is in mind with some of the other exploration doing Unplugging from the net in mice you in september project. i will mention that there was news this week. The kindle vela platform is now live. And if you google kindle velayo be taken to a place where you can start reading these serial creations which anyone can make through kennel publishing and there are some fantastic ones. The one that. I've been reading as by hugh howey next week. I will be speaking with someone from the kindle village team to describe the thinking behind it the strategy. What kinds of things. You'll find there. And i think it's pretty dramatic new platform and i can tell from reading you howie's Death and life a biography which is what he's put up there that it's given him a chance to tell his story in a new way. And he he compares it himself and one of the episodes are one of the chapters That it reminds him of the excitement. He had when he was writing wool and was having his life. Changed by the whole Self publishing kindle direct publishing platform so That's that's going to be something that will pure more about next week. let's turn to the interview and when i asked my ocean park friend jeff shoot To recommend someone to talk about our fair village here for today's show he suggested..
The Kindle Chronicles
"kindle" Discussed on The Kindle Chronicles
"The types of things that are being read and so amazon even though report out a lot of resources polly they're not necessarily optimizing around the kind of reading voice that we want. But this this is synthesised service is and we had to do quite a bit of work to enable that in matter or example in matter. When you're listening you see the visuals speech mark tracks along with what you're which is important because it keeps you sing signups reference the tax if you hear something. The service that we're using doesn't provide speech marks. Amazon did service doesn't and so we have to reverse engineering engineering by doing speech to text to generate the speech marks. And so it's it's we had to do quite a bit to use the service but users really like it there still some rough edges with it that we would like to see resolved soon related to the reading of numbers and dollars and things like that but ultimately we expect the the quality of speech emphasis is going to continue to improve. It's going to continue to decline. And we think that this kind of thing will be pretty ubiquitous eventually across everywhere that you're reading and just want to be ahead of the curve and have it integrated into the product in a way that really is attentive to detail and gives you the best user experience. Yeah yeah that makes sense. I think you're right. I think that will become something. Everybody just expects to have that choice. Let's talk a little bit about. What's ahead were your irs. Now that's how clubhouse starters and then there was a big android rollout any chance. I'll be able to read my my matter. Feed on my kindle oasis or is it probably not going to be able to go into kobo. Or i'm thinking e ink screen because when i think intelligent quality read something that matters. I tend to do that kind of reading on my own basis. Just there's something. I don't know exactly the lack of color Maybe it's just sort of a trick played with my mind now. I'm reading something that's important what what's the visible roadmap that you can talk about going ahead from here is a very high priority for us and begun to work on it and we're going be launching that later in the year. We do plan to have some kind of export to kindle feature. A number of people have asked about that. It's a little bit different than like us. Writing software for a new platform for matter in the way that ios android and web art because we would basically be exporting the text and then it gets disconnected from all of the functionality matter. Yeah but it can't be a better reading experience on inc and so we want to give people the option to do that and then we will get to android eventually. Be a little bit farther down the road. Yeah yeah that makes sense somewhere. There's three employees. Is that include you in rob. Or what's the staffing now. And who are you looking to hired..
The Kindle Chronicles
"kindle" Discussed on The Kindle Chronicles
"So. it's kind of puzzling. That are reading. Tools aren't better and we set out to start to do something about that. So when you're thinking about what was missing in the reading tools. And i sort of my own history of reading tools dates back to the starting this podcast. The year after the kindle was founded and like you always been a big reader so much changed in my reading when i shifted to reading digitally as opposed to paper. But i think you're talking about maybe even more recent period of when we're doing so much reading online and and e books and all that when you and rob kind of thought about what needed to be fixed or improved what we're sort of the nubs or the friction that you thought needed to be addressed. We think about too broad problems what we read and how we read what we read the question. What do i. What do i read. Mast is really interesting to consider because you can read anything that's ever been published. It's i mean it's it's remarkable and quite mind boggling and there are things that are incredible and could change your life and are the best things to read that arbor. We have access to a very hard to get to we. of course. don't start the day and say let me look at the whole corpus of everything that's been published and pick the best thing that's that's completely non feasible. The search costs are far too high and we rely on filters we. We might go to the new york times and look at the headlines. We go my good at twitter. We might get things sent to us or have other filters and these filters by and large when you consider what we end up reading relative to what we potentially could and how much better that can be. We think really can adequate and there's not a place that you can reliably turn to. That gives you a much higher. Quality selection set. That helps you decide what to read next.
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"kindle" Discussed on The Kindle Chronicles
"Got a couple of tech tips for you. The first is a problem which you may or may not have had given how many devices you have. But because i've been buying and updating my kindle devices for twelve years now and i've got some books that i've used over that same period i i ran up against a problem with a book that it's the alcoholics anonymous. It's sort of the the big book text for a that. I consult frequently. And when i wanted to bring it up on my new ipad. Pro i get the message saying that that This exceeded the licensed limit. You know Most publishers have a say that you. Can you buy a kindle book you're buying the the usage of it and you can only put it on five or six devices. The problem was i wasn't really clear. What these other devices were that. The book was taking up space on and counting against my use of the license. So i went to manage your key contents and devices and i saw i found the book and i just you know search for in content and i could see that it was on six devices and it name them but there wasn't a simple way from there to say all right. Take it off that device. I don't think i even have that device anymore. So what i ended up doing is just going to the devices. Tab and i took off all of the kindle apps on old ipads iphones anything i could think of and then i came back and i went into the ipad. Pro is a fairly easy just to enter the username and password so that it was like a fresh start on my account and sure enough. I was able to pull up the book if you an easier way to do it. Then wiping out the kindle app on the various devices I'd love to hear about it. You get semi email. Pod chronicles at gmail.com. But this this might not have been pretty but it did the trick in and it got the book to where i wanted it to be the other tech tip. I i'm passing along and it's it's sort of outside the usual genre but We we do this thing up at the beach with my two. Youngest sons jake and ryan who are seven and five. And when they're over sometimes we say all right is. It's time to play screens on the bed. And what that is is. It's usually just me and ryan and jake butt sometimes startling enters and and and you have to be on the bed and you have to have something that has a screen. I've got a couple of extra fire. Tablets have got an ipad. So i sort of deal out the screens to everybody. And then each person plays a different video game On the screen on the bed. And if you get bored with the game you're playing you can say hey ryan you want to switch and we say sure What i like about this is i think. Video games The idea of a kid serve staring at a screen. Playing video game is a little bit unnerving to me. And so i like making it more social and i'm on the bed with my grandsons. We have a hilarious time. And i'm always sort of a coaching them. Some of these games especially The iowa games you play the game for awhile and you know you'll fail and then before you can retry it. They'll put some kind of an ad in front of you and i. No you've got to click the x. Don't buy you know. Don't hit my credit card..
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"kindle" Discussed on The Kindle Chronicles
"Very nice media. Well i very grateful for michelle's coming on the show. Give a behind the scenes. View of the many conversations that led to amazon publishing's making it's ten thousand titles available through public libraries. You my take on. This is that it's an example of amazon publishing's Experimental mission which. I recall being impressed by at the very beginning. When amazon's kindle content head russ granddaddy Talked me about how amazon plan to innovate as publisher in ways that would benefit the entire book industry. I always enjoyed talking with rust in those days more than a decade ago and i found him believable credible in his idealism and good faith vision. So that's probably why i was so pleased to learn about this agreement with the dp l. a. because it's a good example. I think of how the current leadership at a pub following rusk granted. Eddie's lead in the early days is willing to devote a lot of time and out of the box thinking to come up with a promising new approach to lending e books through libraries. And i think it it may well have a ripple effect throughout the industry just as russ was hoping that amazon publishing in general would be able to accomplish now as for the simply app which you heard michelle talk about and that's going to be the only way to read an amazon publishing book borrowed from a library under this agreement. I think it's fair to say that. The app is a modest tool compared with the current capabilities of kindle software on tablets smartphones and kindle readers simply does not offer translations from one language to another at an easy way to access. Highlights you make an borrowed book or immersion reading synchronizing with audio books to mention a few But simply e has a advantage. And i think that's significant that there's no data being collected by you when you borrow a book. And if you're getting all the advantages of advantages of the kindle platform. Be you know. I i know that My information is being used. I trust the use at this point. But it's not a trivial concern and the the simply app is very strong on a value. That's very important to libraries understandably In that it protects patron privacy in line with library values and it also gives libraries control over their loan comment content. So all in all. I i agree with andrew. Albany's who wrote an excellent article in publishers. Weekly about this. He called it a major step forward for the digital library market. I agree and i look forward to sometime later this year. Probably late summer early fall. When will actually see some of these books appearing and i think he'll be calling my libraries. Save that simply app. That i can get the latest team. Kuhn's book on maybe try to spread the.
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"Your account whether you've been an audible a customer or subscriber or not And this is. This is a for me. it's going to be. I probably won't continue the fifty dollars a month level. Just because i don't have any commute. I have so little time that i can listen to things. Podcast and clubhouse and all that that these credits will probably just build up and i won't be able to actually listen to a whole book but i'm still gonna be interested to have four months. Essentially free of jumping up to the higher level because as already paying eight dollar level is a pretty good deal. I would say so. Those are some things that are already available on prime day and then prime day itself starts on monday. Three m o. B. b. the messing up my sleep score because i'll probably get up at three. Am go the bathroom. And then i'll very quietly go over the chair looking out over the ocean and see what kind of deals are her and my tablet at three. Am in the morning all the fun. This is going to.
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"There's a good number of places on line are following prime day and giving tips the one i like. The best is the verge. And i've linked to it. They update what's happening and as of today they have best early. Prime deals that was actually published. June sixteenth by brandon. Witter at the verge. And i'm going to tell you about some of the items that they highlighted that i think are of particular interest and they are available now and will last through prime day and there'll be some other surprises. They come once prime. Day actually starts the amazon echo. Buds i've talked about this before. This is the second generation of the buds. And it's much improved. They're still for my taste. But when i use them i'm i'm very happily surprised. At how great they sound and how they connect with my devices. they're a lot cheaper than airpods. And now they're going to be even more affordable they're going to be forty dollars off that's thirty four percent discount and they will be costing eighty dollars now. That's with the wired charging case of a case the plug in the usb charger. If you want the wireless charging case that price is going to be one hundred dollars normally a hundred and forty so good deal on those echo buds. Which i think are pretty great. You've heard me talk a lot about the halo band that i've been using Darlene has one and she has her sleep be monitored by halo And because alexa can recognize both of our names in the morning. We have a little routine where each of us ask alexa question. All it has to have his word sleep in it. I think you can save. How did i sleep last night. Or what's my sleep score and joe recognize darlene. And she'll say you had great sleep which she always does and then for me it will say lend your sleep was poor you scored of you know forty five and this and that And i think it's pretty accurate. I'm gonna find out how accurate this thing is. Because i'm going to have a sleep study. I think coming up in july through mass general. And i'll see how some of this data that i've been collecting the shows that i'm really lousy sleeper and i'd like to fix
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"kindle" Discussed on The Kindle Chronicles
"Them all. Yeah you know as a reader. I found it a little confusing partly because i knew i was gonna read all four of them. Because there's going to talk to you and so it was like reading a novel and they were like you know long chapters in a novel but switching around from one to the other and i'd finish one and i have to figure out. Well how do i get to the next one. And do i have to use another kindle unlimited loan clean just logistically in terms of how worked within the. Just get into it. Oh that's interesting too. Yeah so did you ultimately feel like you're able to figure that out a little bit of friction that it wouldn't have been if it had been just a novel and then the other thing that was that they might want to take a look at is. I was listening to it alternating the audible version which is excellent. Lots of great voice. Well it was weird because in the audible version. They they count the chapters from one all the way to the end so i was at a chapter that was like chapter thirty but in that book of the series it was showing up as chapter five or something. You know what i mean. They do need to look back. Because i remember that was something that we had discussed when we were formatting you know very very late late late stage editor stuff where it's like. Do you want these to these chapters to continue through each buck. And i at that time had said yes i do. Because that's sort of and it's it'd be hard choice because i imagine most audible listeners. Would listen to it all. And they wouldn't care what the chapter was in the individual book in the series. But some people do it's called immersion reading and it's nice because you can see the words highlighted as you're listening to the story and they'll figure that out that's the kind of thing they're good at figuring out i will..
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"kindle" Discussed on The Kindle Chronicles
"They seem to be shifting to an opt out option for it. As opposed to opt in. I you know i think this is pretty benign and i think there's going to be some very good things. Come from the ability to spread this wireless capability beyond what you have with bluetooth devices in the thing i always think about is some kind of a little tag that sophie could wear if she ever escaped in the neighborhood the sidewalk network would be there to sort of track her and you know lots of other things could happen too but Anyway i my my paranoia level regarding amazon expanding ways to do things that i'm going to benefit from is is pretty low and and if you think i'm missing something on the dangers of sidewalk please let me know pod. Chronicles jameel dot com. I'm not In in this sprint. I'll do a homemade bumper and then we'll get to the interview. Did editor edited okay. Lisa unger is a best selling novelist. Who's twenty novels and twenty six languages. really create suspense based on psychological insights into the human condition. You'll hear her talk about that. Our conversation Book list named her. Most recent thriller titled confessions on the seven. Forty five as one of its top. Ten crime picks for twenty twenty one and house of crows. Which is how i heard about. Her is her four part serial released last week by hamsun original series and it's receiving four and a half stars thousands of reviews and top two hundred ranking in the entire kindle store so it's off to a strong start. I reach lisa on wednesday june second by zoom at her home as she happens to live on the gulf coast of florida. Just probably two hours. North of santa delilah where darlene niner sister spent the winter as we were getting ready for this interviews as setup with someone helpful from from amazon Each of our calendars play tricks with us. Regarding the date of the interview. I had originally thought it was tuesday and she had thought it was thursday so by the time we finally landed on the correct day. It seems if we had overcome a kind of haunting of our calendars and that's kind of an appropriate image given the dark topics of fiction. This she joked as we get started..
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"Kindle chronicles podcast. Today's friday april seventeenth. Twenty twenty one. I'm in cambridge massachusetts where it's snowed today so finally did have a little snow. This winter didn't have any in santa bill. Of course it was very pretty. My interview. this week is with andrew barrer a successful young screenwriter whose amazon original stories trilogy young blood imagines what might go wrong in the science of extending lifespans of the elderly by giving them access to blood donations from young people. Hits a an edgy story. Very well written. And he's a creative young man thirty seven very much enjoyed talking with them. And i'm glad to bring you our conversation. Gonna jump radiant. I get some tips as well but The new story that struck me as most important this week was jeff bezos last letter to shareholders as ceo ve company. He's gonna be turning over the reins of the company to andy jazzy. His letters are always. I think written with a personal voice. It's pretty clear to me that he writes these himself. And he's a good writer. He writes in a very direct way. And this is a very personal statement at it probably will be the one. That's remembered of his letters as much as the nineteen ninety seven letter which has been Repeated each year to show the continuity between the original vision of amazon and the latest one. It also made some news because we get to see what he thought of the union. Vote in bessemer. Alabama received a lot of coverage. President biden weighed in on the side of the union essentially and in the end. The workers voted overwhelmingly not to join the union. So in some ways it was a a benefit to amazon clearly. That's the outcome they were working for. But i'm going to read Some portions of the letter to you just so that we can hear the words. I'll i'll have some things to say. But i think anybody who's followed amazon through this podcast over the twelve years Is likely to be interested in. What does the founder of the company say. The last time he addresses the people who have invested in the company he writes does your chair. That's jeff he's the chair of the company. Does your chair take comfort in the outcome of the recent union. Vote in bessemer. No he doesn't. I think we need to better job for our employees..
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"I absorbed that and also homes courtyards. There's there's a very different sense of what your personal space isn't home. Homes have kind of public or semi-public aspect to where you can kind of walk into the courtyard which is really not the same thing as you're trespassing is different feeling. It's it's More welcoming understood that you're sharing that with not to your family but with other people who are visiting visitors and so that was a thing that i also absorbed and change your about. The images of the book are fascinating in the videos. You've put up a kickstarter. It's big it's twenty seven pounds three volumes When you imagine someone using it as sort of a a source book for otherness or you know to prime the innovation of any individual reader. Can you tell me what that looks. Like is seeing a photo of a ceremony. That looks very bizarre and then immediately going to wonder how i could use this at the rotary club or i mean how how are those. How do you imagine those people journaling about the images that they see in the booker. I take i i kind of designer crutch to life others. There's the design approach where you You treat life as a series of design problems and so you're kind of designing your life signing your lifestyle and your divining things in the part of the design approach is to interrupt prototype Brainstorm excetera an icy this book in that kind of a lineage of said you were interested in fashion. Well there's very strongly sensor meet trying to capture of the costuming digits traditional fashion. And i think they all have some ideas for future fashion and not just kind of fire. Early ornate bedecked jewelry but You know future. Futuristic garments can can be inspired by these. Because they're thinking different. I would say the same thing about architecture jury design. I think were you know. We tend to think of things as sleek and bare minimal. But that is just a fashion that that does not necessarily mean that. We're going to be like that in one hundred years right now. We painter cars the most boring color possible. But you look at some of the jeepneys in philippines or the trucks in northern afghanistan. They're just they're all colors will why nights free color color could be free that be covered screens with karst at screens on the outside What would they look like well. Let's look at some of these vehicles. Here they're being an inspiration but what they could be. So it's sort of like that. It's again. It's it's prodding what's possible and recapturing some of the solutions. That people in the past came up with and saying you know they might be useful again. It's a paper book. It seems like it would be cool to be able to browse all of these images on my ipad. I've got a big ipad pro beautiful screen. Are you consciously not expecting it to be viewed that way. What's what's your sense of the the digital rendering of this versus paper. The digital doesn't work right now. It doesn't work the screen big enough if you were to. I have this huge screen right now if you were to go through the pdf on a screen at least as big as could work I'm not really releasing it as a pdf for that reason because most people will attempt to redraw their phone ipad at the best and it just doesn't work would is good for us. A pdf is to search for things. So if i need to find something or a have search term in the caption. I can find things. And so I did have did reward. The twenty patron funders with a pdf. from those. and i'm gonna limit to twenty those twenty because I find that it just needs a lot of real estate to work on your mind also to flip down to read the captions without having to zoom in and I put damages up as individual images on instagram. but they don't have the same effect Something i learned from doing the whole earth catalog. And we'll leader cool tools. Is that the size of the real estate. Makes a difference. And i have nothing against books big kindle reader but this particular thing was envisioned in wants to be on paper in big book form native natural home and so I make no excuses for having only available paper. And it's sort of part of the joy of it is that you get to go on a journey flipping through it and with the thousand eighty pages. It will take a time that it takes several hours. Maybe three hours just to pay through it. Look at each page. Each image on the page. Not even reading any of the captions. So it's it's a it's a journey that that formed forces you to go on and some ways that you don't aren't forced with the digital so the short answer is no there is not going to be a digital version. It's only gonna be available on paper as of today the kickstarter campaign shows pledges of nearly three hundred fifty thousand dollars. Twenty six days to go and i see that you raise the goal of seventy five thousand within the first few hours of the campaign. What do the additional pledges enable you to do this project that you wouldn't have been able to do if you just succeeded in raising seventy five thousand well. The the the the main thing is that the more The economics of printing of the The more you print the more economical it is to print them. And so i had a certain number in mind of several thousand that we need to print the kickstarter goal was set early and low just to ensure that i made it. It was enough.
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"She's gonna be battled out and brad. Stones book is coming out in may. That's kind of give a lot of context. As a new book out i think called fulfillment. That's a real Critique of amazon's effect on a towns across the country so this is the beginning to be sort of the olympics of public debate and discussion about this company. That obviously has a big impact on The economy and it's I guess i'm glad they're not going to be shy because Sure this could backfire and it sort of polarize things. People tend to be in the pro amazon camper the anti amazon camp. And if it if it's just predictable stuff like that. i'm. I'm not so interested. But i think it's fair for amazon to put information out about the minimum minimum wage. They're paying and and to the care and the different things like that and to call out people who are making a tax. I think the message of today is no more free shots. You know if if you are a politician who thinks that because it's amazon if you say something against them it's going to be covered I think marco rubio falls into that point you're going to think about okay That would be fun to talk about the richest man in the world. And what bad decisions making for workers but you now have to think about. Yeah but if i say this what might a jay carney say back you know what what you you poke bear. Now you're going to have something come back at you and some people are saying well. Yeah poke the elizabeth warren baron. That's probably not gonna turn out too well so Well it's going to be entertaining. And i think it will be enlightening as well to have a vigorous debate on these issues as opposed to just one side being a punching bag. That thinks that can't Defend itself when it's attacked kind of left and right all over dude dude dude dude. There's the bumper. Thank you technip tom. Simple longtime listener has a nice habit of comparing what updates to the kindle software are doing across platforms and. He sent me something Earlier this month. That i i'm going to talk to you about some highlights of it and i'm i'm just going to copy what he sent me into the show notes so if you'd like to get his very precise description of what the latest updates are doing you'll be able to find it but i think there's a larger point here that i wanna talk about He points out that the kindle software and the kindle for i o s has had some features which only recently have been added for the fire tablets and kindle for android And this has to do mainly with the area of that. If you go into these Reading devices you'll see a big in a little a and that's where you go to like. Make the font bigger. Choose a different fund. There's also some other pre powerful things that you can do to change the reading experience. You can change the layout which changes the color and you can go to continuous scrolling. Change the spacing They're now themes and it has some preset themed compact standard large and low vision. Which gives you bold and big type can also just pick all the different Aspects of settings that you wanna make a custom theme for yourself that's themes and then more has a reading ruler. That's something that we've talked about before you can create sort of a colored line that highlights. You're reading helps you. Maybe have some learning Reading disabilities You can decide how you're reading progress is going to be shown whether you'll see. Popular highlights animation page. Things like that so now. Those types of things are pretty much the same or very similar. Whether you're reading on the kindle whether reading kindle on an ipad or an iphone or on a fire tablet or kindle for android There a couple of things which tom points out are not available on the ios devices. The ipad and the iphone Compared with the fire and the android one is word runner. That's that's kind of a cool thing because you can set it so that you're just seeing like a a line of words maybe you know three or four words and they kind of come flashing at you at a speed that you select i. I talked with a software company in massachusetts. That was making a similar product I think it's a faster way to read. Almost like the evelyn wood's speed reading and there have been times when i've been cramming to finish a book before talking to somebody i have used. I don't use it that much. But it's a tool of note and It's it's not available on your iphone or or your ipad. It is available in the fire or the or kindle for android another one word wise that will drop little short definitions of words. That might be difficult to understand. That's really good. If you're learning english and you can turn that on her off on a fire or on a kindle for android. I think the larger point here is that there are these differences across the different devices and in the past. I've couple times challenged the amazon people that i talked with a product previews. Why can't you just make it so that. When if i reading kindle on android aura of fire tablet or that they it it should it should just be the same. It's all kindle it's kindle books why should there be anything that's different in these various things that are named kindles now. I can kind of understand that. There would be differences between the operating system for an e ink kendall because it's slower it just responds more slowly. And so i i. I'm sort of comfortable with you. Know understanding that if i switch from my oasis to my tablet or my iphone. They're going to be some differences but it seems to me that anything that has an lcd screen. It's bright it's fast. It does all the things with those devices can do. Why can't they all just do exactly the same thing on all of these things at thomas talking about i know the reason. The reason is their individual teams Four kennel for ios. For the fire tablet and the advantages that they do a lot of innovating they get together and they have won two pizza teams. Have all of the things. That amazon does to stay innovative in creative And and so they have room and they can move quickly to do things which benefit readers using those various devices. The downside is the consistency. Now there are people and we ran Into one of them for an interview. Patrick hand Back in february. T casey six fifty three. He's in charge of how series are treated across all of the devices. So he's somebody who's you know every everything he touches i'm sure he's trying to have some consistency with it There's a little tension probably between the specific product teams in the people who are looking for out On behalf of the overall experience for readers but anyway this was a tom's list of changes on the latest. Updates is a good way to see where some of this plays out and some good advice. That might be of help to you depending on which of
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"kindle" Discussed on The Kindle Chronicles
"Let's let's tell the story of the series capability in the latest update for kindle five dot thirteen dot four. What do you say that. I'm assuming you're talking about the feature that we like to call library series grouping. I'll circle back to that in a second but one of the things. I want to call out his that. That this is just the latest series enhancement that we've launched My team has really been working hard over the past year and a half to kind of introduce a number of series features. Some are more subtle than others Things like enhanced search results that allow you or make it easier for you to discover which books go in which order ability for arcadi authors to directly manage their series and make sure that everything is represented correctly on site and provide kind of series level descriptions. We've got serious pages available on every single surface regardless of where you're eating or what you're connected to you can get in and and kind of figure out what book comes next and The lottery assures grouping specifically which i know is one of the the more Which has a lot of our customers. Excited is is Is the latest update That's really meant to bring some of those series enhancements to reader libraries themselves and so it is available across the three e-readers with the with the most recent release as well as something that we've pushed out on our free apps on ios and android as well as fire fire tablets. How does it work. Maybe walk us through now. My wife is she's she's the series reader of the family and she likes Mysteries mainly and i have spent twelve years learning really cool. Things that the kindle can do. Every time i go to my wife and i say did you know that if you can highlight stuff you can get a list of your highlights printed out you and she always listens somewhat lately And then just says. I just want to read the books..
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"kindle" Discussed on The Kindle Chronicles
"The extra that was published in entrepreneur. Which you'll find a link to in the show notes tells how a rather odd meeting with steve jobs. And jeff bezos Laid the groundwork for the kindle. The story that i've never heard before and i. I have a feeling this book might be full of them. Unfortunately i was not able to schedule an interview with the authors. Their virtual book tour. I think i get started that process a little late but maybe be a chance to catch up with one or both of them later. My guest next week is going to be patrick. Wola hand and he is Worked at amazon and he has been overseeing the kindle updates. i reached out to them quite a while ago. And we were talking about the latest update for the oasis. And the paperweight kindle So he's going to tell us what amazon tries to do these updates. I think we may get a chance to talk about that. Patch that i told you about last week. This kind of a an extra story to the most recent update on monday darlene. And her sister debonair will to our next rental. This'll be the third and last rental of our. Stay down here this winter we will be in a house next to a golf course on the bay side of santa bell so i i might actually rent some clubs and see if i can remember anything about golf from After about a thirty year. Hiatus when i played in casper wyoming each move there were doing in the island is becoming more of an undertaking because we keep buying stuff at amazon and Durling bought a chair. That i'm gonna have to put on the top of the tesla and hold With my arm out the driver's side window and try to pick a quiet time to cross periwinkle to get it from this house to the next one. I kind of amazed that we're halfway through our stay here but we're we're all loving it and we've already booked a waterfront condo for december which will be the start of next year's winter exploration of the island We're getting lots of time to figure out what we might like if we have a chance to buy something here. And that's going to depend on the waking up of the still dormant Real estate market for condos in downtown denver. Thanks for listening. Great to have you with me here on santa bell and i hope you have a good week take care..
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"kindle" Discussed on The Kindle Chronicles
"You land. It's always a pleasure. I want to comment briefly about Bradley suggestion that jeff bezos might split amazon up himself. I'll admit to extreme skepticism. When i first saw what he had written about that idea but you know as we talked. I guess i saw the advantages that amazon might gain from being the one reconfiguring itself in order to minimize the disruption for customers as opposed to having government regulators do the work driven by more political pressures than by customer obsession. I'd still rate the prospect as a long shot. But then i back the mayor of south bend indiana to become the forty six president so i kinda like longshots speaking of which i enjoyed every minute of the two and a half hour confirmation hearing that mayor pete head yesterday before the senate committee A model of how brief answers really are a good thing because each senator only has five minutes. And if you're smart you let them do most of the talking and this exchange at the very end with the senate committee chairman. Senator wicker from mississippi. You'll you'll get a chance to hear the hear. How laconic pete was and then also a little pleasant exchange at the end of it. Mr buddha judge will you pledge to work collaboratively with this committee provide thorough and timely responses to requests for information as we work together to address important policy issues. I do. And i will thank you very much and up. I understand you had a birthday earlier this week. That's that's true. You ran for president. United states where you actually constitutionally quality now by much but just made the cut okay and and you're on the tonight show last night with jimmy fallon and you're on the morning. Joe show this morning in terms of of of thrilling experience out is being before this committee today. Compared to those. I would characterize this as a unique experience chairman very well said. I reached out to austin clan for an interview for this weekend. He wrote a nice note. Back saying lend nice to hear from you apologies but i have to decline for now slammed with requests and being home with the kids fulltime and trying to write best austin also. I reached out to brad stone. Because i know he's working on a new update of his everything store book about amazon and asked if he wanted to kind of do an off broadway conversation with me before he goes on the circuit and he said he. He looks forward to talking with me about the book. But it's probably not gonna be coming out until about may that is going to be one well-timed book he's been working on it for about a year and in the current changes in washington with Everyone on both sides of the aisle looking at amazon another tech companies. The definitive new book about amazon is going to have a lot of readers. I'm sure that will. I sure will have a chance to talk to brad about it around the time that it's released. This is len edgeley for the kindle. Chronicles on santa bell island and florida. Thanks for listening. Please stay safe..
The Kindle Chronicles
"kindle" Discussed on The Kindle Chronicles
"Tesla charger there And he's he's pretty bullish on it and notes that other e-readers going to get this ian colored paper and he thinks that will pressure larger companies. Like cobo like like amazon to go there as well You know Some of these other companies are getting it. I don't recognize them. I don't want to diminish them. Because i know there's huge markets outside the us but I've got a twelve year archive of kindle books and so if there were even if it was cobo there was a chance to get a a color e inc which just really underwhelms me of something. I think i need I certainly wouldn't do that in abandoned all of my kindle books if it was on another platform now amazon comes out with a color product l. Assume that it's a solid. Maybe i'll fall in love with it. Although i don't think i'll fall in love with the price and we'll see i. It sounds like there's probably going to be some new kindle models coming out and those will be fun to cover in. Whatever way i have a chance to do it and thanks to garrett riley for the tip on that one tech tips. Tom simple writes that. I owe s. six three eight. That's an update for the kindle app. Iphones ipads has that same series grouping that we had on the kindles and he says now. We're just waiting for to show up on the kindle app on fire. I had a call that was a three zero three area code. Denver said it was from amazon. Said that there was a suspicious Charge about seven hundred dollars on my account. I smelled something. That wasn't really amazon. So i called amazon and they were able to check phone calls that i received on my phone Was worried about that. No because they were able to say yes. We see that call and that was not from us. So it's a good thing you didn't click on anything or give them any information because that could have been a problem I think that's the first time i've gotten Some sort of spam phishing thing purporting to be from amazon a little unnerving but for sure if you if amazon is calling you first of all. It's rare if you didn't initiate the call to get tech support second of all if they asked for any information like your credit card or your account number anything like that. Hang up immediately You know file a complaint with the government or whatever but I guess those. That's now thing out there. Sonia brought wrote with a smart speaker. Tip which i think is a good one. She says i have noticed on both my amazon alexa google home that over time. The internal software appears to become corrupted in some way instead of feeling about in settings. Just unplugged the deers. And when plugged in again they find their brains and their connection to the internet and work as well as before the failure. Very handy advice John parker wrote that he was having trouble. Converting a pdf to kindle Land i just tried converting a pdf document kindle format..