The Kindle Chronicles

Vice President and Director of Research at Forrester Links James McQuivey’s Forrester website Living Manly newsletter by James McQuivey Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche by Bruce Feirstein If you’d like brief updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. tFrom your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 8 a.m. Eastern Time.  Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Author of One Step Too Far  Links Lisa Gardner’s website Book Tour Events for One Step Too Far Lisa Gardner’s author page at Amazon If you’d like brief updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 8 a.m. Eastern Time.  Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Author of The Extinction Trials Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Paperwhite Gen 11 versus Oasis  Links Paperwhite Gen 11 Paperwhite Signature Edition Paperwhite Kids Edition Kindle Oasis Wireless charging dock for Paperwhite Signature Edition If you’d like brief updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 8 a.m. Eastern Time.  Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Notes from his 10th Decade  Links The Second Most Powerful Man in the World: The Life of Admiral William D. Leahy, Roosevelt’s Chief of Staff by Phillips Payson O’Brien “China’s Hypersonic Wake-Up Call” by The Editorial Board at The Wall Street Journal - October 18, 2021 (Behind pay wall) Skylight Frame: 10-inch WiFi Digital Picture Frame - $159 at Amazon.com The Heritage Foundation’s 2020 Index of U.S. Military Strength  The Edge of the Road podcast (recently updated after a two-year hiatus) If you’d like brief updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 8 a.m. Eastern Time.  Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

This is a special "flash" episode of The Kindle Chronicles with my coverage of today's Amazon products and services event. The big news was that Astro, a home robot, is being offered for invite-only purchase later this year for a price of $1,000. It looks like an amazing invention, and I want one! I'm finishing this episode in time to head north to Casper, Wyoming, in the new Tesla I picked up in Boulder yesterday. Onward!    

On the Cambridge Lanai with Sophie Links Kindle Oasis “New Kindle Software Update 5.13.7 Brings User Interface Changes” by Nathan at eBookreader.com The Edge of the Road podcast (recently updated after a two-year hiatus) If you’d like brief updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 8 a.m. Eastern Time.  The Kindle Chronicles is available at Audible Podcasts. The only thing missing are ratings! If you have time, please consider leaving one in order to help others learn about the show.  Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.  

Mystic, Episcopal Priest, and Author Links Cynthia Bourgeault’s website Books by Cynthia Wisdom Waypoints Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC) Spiritual Gifts from the Imaginal Realm, an on-demand e-course available through Spirituality & Practice Eye of the Heart: A Spiritual Journal into the Imaginal Realm by Cynthia Bourgeault If you’d like brief updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 8 a.m. Eastern Time.  The Kindle Chronicles is available at Audible Podcasts. Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Principal Product Manager, Kindle Vella Interview starts at 13:45 and ends at 49:18 Note: I will be discussing my Virginia Milner interview Tuesday July 27th, 2021, at 1 pm EDT on Clubhouse. (Please note: audio in the podcast incorrectly states the Clubhouse meeting will be on Monday) Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join! Links Virginia Milner, principal product manager for Kindle Vella.  Amazon Launches Kindle Vella - press release July 13, 2021 Kindle Direct Publishing including Kindle Vella Death and Life: A Biography by Hugh Howey - on Kindle Vella Other Vellas to check out: WOLF (Stope Packs #1) by Rebecca Zanetti Bug by Callie Chase The Marriage Auction by Audrey Carlan Readwise read.Amazon.com Gabriel Allon (21-book series) by Daniel Silva Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right by Jamie Glowack No

President of the Ocean Park Association Interview starts at 2:41 and ends at 47:17 Note: I will be discussing my Rob Drake interview Tuesday July 20th, 2021, at 1 pm EDT on Clubhouse. (Please note change from usual scheduling on Mondays) Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join! Links Amazon Launches Kindle Vella - press release July 13, 2021 Ocean Park Association - Ocean Park, Maine Ocean Park Vision Survey Agent Sonya: Moscow’s Most Daring Wartime Spy by Ben Macintyre Mrs. Osmond: A Novel by John Banville Portrait of a Lady by Henry James Commisario Brunettti (30-book series) by Donna Leon The Maisie Dobbs series (16 books) by Jacqueline Winspear Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson by Gordon S. Wood Next Week’s Guest Virginia Milner, principal product manager for Kindle Vella.  If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, an

Author of The Lost Girls Interview starts at 2:27 and ends at 33:08 Photo by Joanne Chiarella Note: I will be discussing my Jessica Chiarella interview Monday July 12th, 2021, at 1 pm EDT on Clubhouse. Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join! Links Jeff Tweedy interviewed by Ezra Klein - July 2, 2021 How to Write One Song by Jeff Tweedy And Again: A Novel by Jessica Chiarella DePaul University interview with Jessicva Chiarelli (YouTube)  Serial podcast Season One The Jinx - HBO Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn The Martian by Andy Weir Next Week’s Guest Rob Drake, incoming President of the Ocean Park Association If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash brie

Author of Dead by Dawn, (Mike Bowditch Mysteries Book 12) Interview starts at 6:30 and ends at 53:13 Photo by Mark Fleming Note: I will be discussing my Paul Doiron interview Monday July 5th, 2021, at 1 pm EDT on Clubhouse. Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join! Links Laufey website Paul Doiron Mike Bowditch Mysteries (12-Book Series) by Paul Doiron Kristen Lindquist  C J Box Ann Rittenberg Literary Agency Luanne Rice Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why by Laurence Gonzales Down East Magazine Jeff Bezos invites Wally Funk to join him on the first crewed Blue Origin flight on July 20th. (Instagram video) - July 1, 2021 Next Week’s Guest Jessica Chiarella, author of The Lost Girls, available for pre-order with release on July 6, 2021 If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Jour

Co-founder of Matter Interview starts at 16:06 and ends at 56:21 Note: I will be discussing my Ben Springwater interview Monday June 28, 2021, at 1 pm EDT on Clubhouse. Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join! Links Amazon Prime Day press release - June 23, 2021 Kobo Elipsa reMarkable 2 tablet Helix Jump at the App Store Click here for my personal invite to join Matter “On Bullshit” by Harry G. Frankfurt (PDF), first published in 1986, followed by an 81-page book with the same title  in 2005.  “How I Became the Honest Broker” by Ted Gioia at his Culture Notes of an Honest Broker newsletter - May 26, 2021 Readwise Andy Matuschak Substack Letters from an American - Substack newsletter by Heather Cox Richardson Noahpinion - Substack newsletter by Noah Smith Ted Lasso on Apple TV+ Next Week’s Guest Paul Doiron, author of Dead by Dawn: A Novel (Mike Bowditch M

Digital Public Library of America’s Director of Business Development & Senior Strategist Interview starts at 13:17 and ends at 46:40 Note: I will be discussing my Michele Kimpton interview Monday June 21, 2021, at 1 pm EDT on Clubhouse. Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join! Links Digital Public Library of America DPLA Exchange SimplyE e-reader app “DPLA signs agreement with Amazon Publishing to make their books available to U.S. libraries” (press release) - May 18, 2021 “Amazon Publishing, DPLA Ink Deal to Lend E-books in Libraries” by Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly - May 18, 2021 “The best early Prime Day deals” by Brandon Widder at The Verge - June 16, 2021 The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere by Pico Iyer Nameless Season 2, Amazon Original Stories by Dean Koontz Next Week’s Guest Ben Springwater, founder of Matter If you’d like b

Author of Mop Rides the Waves of Change Interview starts at 6:32 and ends at 44:46 Note: I will be discussing my Jaimal Yogis interview Monday June 14, 2021, at 1 pm EDT on Clubhouse. Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join! Links Mop Rides the Waves of Change by Jaimal Yogis - available for pre-order with release on July 13, 2021 Mop Rides the Waves of Life: A Story of Mindfulness and Surfing by Jaimal Yogis (2020) Previous books by Jaimal Yogis: The Fear Project: What Our Most Primal Emotion Taught Me About Survival, Success, Surfing...and Love (2013) and Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer’s Quest to Find Zen on the Sea (2009) Next Week’s Guest Michele Kimpton, director of business development and senior strategist at the Digital Public Library of America If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morni

Author of House of Crows, a four-part Amazon Original Stories series Interview starts at 6:32 and ends at 44:46 Note: I will be discussing my Lisa Unger interview Monday June 7, 2021, at 1 pm EDT on Clubhouse. Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join! Links Lisa Unger’s home page The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson The Red Hunter and Crazy Love You by Lisa Unger Dark Corners, an Amazon Original Stories collection including “The Sleep Tight Motel” by Lisa Unger Hush, an Amazon Original Stories collection including “Let Her Be” by Lisa Unger Nameless by Dean Koontz: A Killer Serial (Season 1) and The Killer Finale (Season 2--available for preorder with release starting on June 10, 2021) Confessions on the 7:45: A Novel by Lisa Unger (2020) Available for pre-order with release on October 5, 2021: The Last Girl Ghosted: A Novel by Lisa Unger Next Week’s Gue

Author of Playing the Palace Interview starts at 26:46 and ends at 51:31 Note: I will be discussing my Paul Rudnick interview Monday May 31, 2021 at 1 pm EDT on Clubhouse. Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join! Links Matter, a social reading app currently in private beta on iOS “The Institutional Yes” by Julia Kirby and Thomas A. Stewart at Harvard Business Review - October, 2007 (An revealing interview with Jeff Bezos) “Amazon’s future beyond Jeff Bezos” at The Economist - May 22, 2021 “D.C. attorney general brings antitrust lawsuit against Amazon” by Cat Zakrzewski and Rachel Lerman at The Washington Post - May 25, 2021 Amazon and MGM press release - May 26, 2021 “Ereader screens are about to get a big upgrade” by Sharmista Sarkar at Techradar - May 25, 2021 “Amazon looking at opening pharmacy stores in U.S.” at Reuters - May 26, 2021 Next Week’s Guest

Author of Pandemic and other thrillers Interview starts at 16:27 and ends at 49:33 Note: I will be discussing my Gerry Riddle interview Monday May 24, 2021 at 1 pm EDT on Clubhouse. Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join! Links “Amazon Publishing, DPLA Ink Deal to Lend E-books in Libraries” by Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly - May 18, 2021 “Amazon will distribute ebooks to public libraries” by Michael Kozlowski at Good E Reader - May 19, 2021 Digital Public Library of America press release - May 18, 2021 DPLA Exchange SimplyE library E-Reader app for iOS and Android “Amazon Prime Day 2021: These are the deals we think you’ll see” by Russell Holly at CNET - May 21, 2021 Echo Show 10 (3rd Gen) at Amazon.com Novels by A. G. Riddle Next Week’s Guest Paul Rudnick, author of Playing the Palace, available for pre-order with release on May 25, 2021 If you’d l

Author of Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire Interview starts at 2:00 and ends at 34:00 Note: I will be discussing my Brad Stone interview Monday May 17, 2021 at 1 pm EDT on Clubhouse. Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join! Links The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone (2013) The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World by Brad Stone (2017) Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on the David Rubenstein Show (YouTube)- September 19, 2018 Steve Jobs: A Biography by Walter Isaacson Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that changed Everything by Steven Levy Next Week’s Guest A.G. Riddle, author of Pandemic and other science-based thrillers If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along

Author of The Last Green Valley Interview starts at 6:34 and ends at 49:20 Note: I will be discussing my Mark Sullivan interview Monday May 9, 2021 at 1 pm EDT on Clubhouse. Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join! Links “Amazon Partners with Tile to take on Apple AirTags” by Jon Fortt and Fahiemah Al-Ali at CNBC - May 7, 2021 Kevin Kelly recommends Push to Kindle on Recomendo - $2/month on patreon gets uo 100 credits a month to use with Push to Kindle. 20 credits are apparently free each month. Mark Sullivan’s web page Beneath a Scarlet Sky: A Novel by Mark Sullivan Country Bookshelf in Bozeman, MT Sleeping Bear: A Thriller by Connor Sullivan (Mark’s son) - available for preorder with release on July 6, 2021. James Patterson’s blurb for the book: “Sleeping Bear is one of the very best thrillers you’ll read this year. It’s one of those rare novels that keeps