The Kindle 2: Now Shipping

I want to do a full write-up tomorrow about the Kindle 2, but I want to post that today is the first day of Kindle 2’s availability. The unit is still $359 and doesn’t ship with a cover any more, but it looks really thin and the page-turning buttons have been completely redesigned.
Even more [...]

Happy Belated Birthday!

Happy Thursday Copious Notes readers! This post has been put off way too long and I apologize for the lack of posts this week. It’s amazing how fast the days go by in January and how little someone can get done when they are unmotivated. This post was originally scheduled for this [...]

Capacious Kindle for December 8

I came across this great article on CNN last Wednesday about the Kindle and thought it was perfect for the Capacious Kindle series. You can find the whole article here.
A year later, Amazon’s Kindle finds a niche
By Zach Pontz
CNN
It has the curves of a Lamborghini, looks like something an astronaut might take into space [...]

Capacious Kindle for December 1

Welcome back from an extra-long weekend! Today I’m posting the second of two parts of Oprah’s show from October 24th. As I said last time, there was a lot of buzz about a new gadget Oprah was going to unveil on her show as her new favorite gadget ever, which turned out to [...]

Capacious Kindle for November 19

All you Kindle lovers are in for a treat today. Back on October 24th, there was a lot of buzz about a new gadget Oprah was going to unveil on her show as her new favorite gadget ever. I hadn’t heard anything about what it could be, but after just a few minutes [...]

Kindle Discount

Hey all, I’m packing up for my vacation but needed to post quickly because this is time-sensitive. My wife showed me that yesterday on Oprah, she declared the Kindle her favorite gadget EVER. She gave one to everyone in the audience and also had Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon on the show. [...]

Capacious Kindle for October 21

So if you’re a Kindle owner like me, one of the biggest worries about buying one is the lingering question of getting an obsolete device. More specifically, it’s the fear of buying a Kindle when a new one may be around the corner. Now, all technology products have product cycles, but Apple and [...]

Have it Your Way- Freezing Point (Kindle Edition)

Some of you who visit Copious Notes also visit Melanie’s blog, where she talks about her writing in Mexico. For a while now, she has been talking about her Aunt Karen Dionne and her new book that is coming out in just a few days titled Freezing Point. I’ve been excited about this [...]

Capacious Kindle for September 15

Hey everyone, this is a video post all about the Amazon Kindle basics. It’s a bit long (27 minutes) but I think you’ll all enjoy ’seeing’ the Kindle up close. Enjoy!

Capacious Kindle for September 3

Hey, it’s a familiar sight: a Capacious Kindle post! Woohoo! I figured this series of posts needed to come back from the dead and I still need to figure out when to regularly post about my great ebook device.
Anyhow, this time I wanted to recap my Kindle experience by talking about the books [...]