The Kindle Chronicles

Photo by Ryan Lash Host of Live On Lockdown and We’re Having a Moment Interview starts at 10:59 and ends at 51:49 Links “Antitrust hearing indefinitely postponed” by Rachel Kraus at Mashable - July 24,2020 “How to convert a PDF file for your Kindle” at The Verge Baratunde Thurston’s website Live On Lockdown "We're Having a Moment" podcast Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay Baratunde’s Patreon Page and TED talk (2019) Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” or “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.  

Author of Pandemic and other thrillers Links “Amazon pilots opening health care centers near its fulfillment centers” at Day One Blog - July 14, 2020 “What’s Ailing an Amazon Health Venture” By Paris Martineau at The Information (paywall) - July 16, 2020 Click here to subscribe to The Information Instapaper A.G. Riddle’s website A. G. Riddle’s store at Amazon.com Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” or “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Founder and CEO of @Skilltype Links Skilltype Tony Zanders at Boston University Libraries The Quantified Self movement “Why the Amazon Kindle is a bibliophile’s digital must-have” by Whitson Gordon at NBC News - July 9, 2020 Pocket to Amazon Kindle (P2k) Len’s “How to Choose a Kindle” YouTube video - June 2019 Amazon adds hands-free activation to Alexa app via GeekWire - July 7, 2020 “How to use Alexa on the Apple Watch” by Conor Allison at Wareable - January 8, 2020 Echo Frames at Amazon.com Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Senior Editor-Trade Books at Amazon.com Links Erin Kodicek’s links at The Amazon Book Review Amazon Book Review Podcast Amazon’s 2020 Best Books of the Year So Far Next Week’s Guest Tony Zanders, Founder & CEO of Skilltype Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Author of Mop Rides the Waves of Life: A Story of Mindfulness and Surfing Interview starts at 0:59 and ends at 33:44 Links Mop Rides the Waves of Life: A Story of Mindfulness and Surfing by Jaimal Yogis and Matt Allen - available for pre-order, with release on June 30, 2020 Jaimal Yogis’s web site, including these videos: How to Surf Your Emotions, 1-Minute Meditation For Kids (And Kids at Heart), Guided Ocean Meditation for Sleep and Relaxation Previous books by Jaimal Yogis: Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer’s Quest to Find Zen on the Sea (2009), The Fear Project: What Our Most Primal Emotion Taught Me About Survival, Success, Surfing...and Love (2013), and All Our Waves Are Water: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment and the Perfect Ride (2017) Pacific Primary Amazon announces acquisition of Zoox at Day One Blog - June 26, 2020 “Amazon Shakes Up the Race for Self-Driving--and Ride-Hailing” by Aarian Marshall at Wired - June 26, 2020 Zoox demo drive (YouTube) - April 17, 2020 Click here to enable my daily Morning Jo

Ryan and Jake learning Beach Buggy 2 in the Tesla Interview starts at 50:01 and ends at 45:04 Links “Amazon plans summer sale for June 22 to ‘jumpstart sales’ after coronavirus crunch” by Annie Palmer at CNBC - June 2, 2020 “Amazon introduces ‘Distance Assistant’” by Brad Porter at Day One blog - June 16, 2020 LEGO NINJAGO Ninja Tuner Car kit (419 pieces) - $32 at Amazon.com Wonder Workshop Dash robot for Kids 6+ ($150 at Amazon.com) Diary of a Wombat by Jackie French Pete the Cat: Snow Daze by James Dean Radio Garden Mop Rides the Waves of Life: A Story of Mindfulness and Surfing by Jaimal Yogis and Matt Allen - available for pre-order, with release on June 30, 2020 Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.    

Photo Credit: Fortune Magazine Author of Bezonomics: How Amazon is Changing Our Lives  and What the World’s Best Companies Are Learning from It Interview starts at 14:21 and ends at 49:03 Links “Jeff Bezos’s Instagram Posts Are a Lesson in How to Respond to a Crisis” by Minda Zetlin at Inc. - June 10, 2020 Echo Frames Echo Buds “Amazon launches two new Kindle Paperwhite colors” by Jay Peters at The Verge - June 10, 2020 Kindle Paperwhite “Amazon Fire HD 8 has one tiny feature I’d love to see in new iPad Pros” by Tom Bedford at techradar - June 5, 2020 Brian Dumaine at Linkedin “The cost of keeping schools closed will be dreadful” by Tim Harford at Financial Times - June 12, 2020.  Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Author of The Voter File (Photo © Claire Salzman) Interview starts at 16:23 and ends at 43:41 Links Fire HD 8 and Fire HD 8 Plus Fire HD Plus bundled with Wireless Charging Dock “You can Now Permanently Delete Kindle eBooks on Kindle Devices” by Nathan at theebbookreader.com - July 2, 2020 OverDrive app for Fire tables Books in the Jack Sharpe series by David Pepper: The People’s House (Book 1), The Wingman (Book 2), and The Voter File (Book 3) David Pepper at Linkedin, Twitter, and Facebook Next Week’s Guest Brian Dumaine, author of Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives, and What the World’s Companies Are Learning From It Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Manager, Amazon Literary Partnership Interview starts at 12:49 and ends at 46:59 Links “Amazon Echo Look No More - Another Alexa Device Discontinued” by Bret Kinsella at voicebot.ai - May 29, 2020 Alexandra Woodworth at Linkedin Amazon Literary Partnership Artist Relief Deep Vellum Publishing City of Asylum LitNet Amazon Book Review Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City by Fang Fang Academy of American Poets How to suspend a Hold on OverDrive My Must Reads app Libro.fm Next Week’s Guest David Pepper, author of The Voter File, available for pre-order with delivery June 2, 2020 Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

My Wife and Sophie on the upper deck in Maine Interview starts at 13:26 and ends at 51:35 Links “The Amazon Kindle is doomed, unless it uses color e-paper” by Michael Kozlowski at Good E Reader - May 18, 2020 PhoneSoap UV-C sanitizing devices Flat Broke with Two Goats: A Memoir by Jennifer McGaha The Professional Book Nerds Podcast Next Week’s Guest David Pepper, author of The Voter File, available for pre-order with delivery June 2, 2020 Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Vice President and Principal Analyst, Forrester Research Interview starts at 16:22 and ends at 53:61 Links Amazon press release on new HD 8 tablets - May 13, 2020 “Amazon upgrades its Fire HD 8 Tablet” by David Carnoy at CNET - May 13, 2020 Readwise “The Future of Work Starts Now” by James McQuivey at Forrester Research - April 20, 2020 Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Associate Director - instructional support and development Harvard Graduate School of Education Interview starts at 9:28 and ends at 50:27 Links DK Readers L2: Star Wars: The Adventures of BB-8 by David Fentiman Josh Bookin Harvard Graduate School of Education Harvard Graduate School of Education site on teaching remotely  Harvard-wide site on teaching remotely A site from University of Michigan about online teaching Zoom Canvas Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.  

Author of The King of Warsaw Interview starts at 10:30 and ends at 42:02 Links Amazon First Quarter Earnings press release - April 30, 2020 “Amazon Says It Will Forgo Billions in Profits to Invest into Worker Safety Measures” by Lauren Debter at Forbes - April 30, 2020 The King of Warsaw by Szczepan Twardoch translated by Sean Gasper Bye Male Fantasies, Vol. 2: Male Bodies - Psychoanalyzing the White Terror by Klaus Theweleitf Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Author of Pandemic and other science thrillers Interview starts at 18:39 and ends at 52:01 Links “Bezos Takes Back the Wheel at Amazon” by Karen Weise at The New York Times - April 22, 2020 Jay Carney interview with Brian Stelter - March 29, 2020 Jeff Bezos’s Letter to Shareholders - April 16, 2020 “Will you buy the Pocketbook Color?” by Michael Kozlowski at Good E Reader - April 23, 202 Books by A. G. Riddle Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Director of Brand Marketing and Communication at OverDrive Interview starts at 13:08 and ends at 55:48 Links “How Are Indie and SFF Bookstores Weathering the Coronavirus Outbreak?” By Andrew Liptak at Tor.com - April 15, 2020 “Survey of Independent Bookstores Shows Coronavirus Toll” by Alex Green at Publishers Weekly - April 8, 2020 The Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver “Audiobooks and literacy: a rapid review of the literature” at National Literacy Trust in London - February 17, 2020  Link to full report (PDF) by Emily Best OverDrive OverDrive’s Libby app Certified B Corporation Big Library Read Funny, You Don’t Look Autistic: A Comedian’s Guide to Life on the Spectrum by Michael McCreary Blog of Steve Potash, Founder and CEO of OverDrive Panorama Project #eBooksForAll Amazon Crossing’s nine free titles for World Book Day The King of Warsaw: A Novel by Szczepan Twardoch available for pre-order from Amazon Crossing with release on April 21, 2020 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Pe

Author of Devoted, published March 31, 2020 by Thomas & Mercer Interview starts at 18:15 and ends at 49:40 Links Macmillan CEO John Sargent’s letter rescinding changes in eBook pricing to libraries - March 17, 2020 “Macmillan Abandons Library E-book Embargo” by Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly - March 17, 2020. “Macmillan lifts library ebook embargo; DBW ban ends” by Bradley Metrock at Digital Book World - March 17, 2020 Audible Captions demo (video) “Amazon extends its US and Canada returns window to May 31” by Ben Fox Rubin at CNET - April 3, 2020 “Amazon and Apple Strike Deal for Prime Video In-App Purchases and Subscriptions” by John Gruger at Daring Fireball - April 2, 2020 Dean Koontz on Twitter Devoted by Dean Koontz Other books by Dean Koontz mentioned in the interview: Watchers (1999); The Eyes of Darkness (1981); Innocence (2013); Elsewhere (available for pre-order, ships October 20, 2020); the Moonlight Bay series (2 books first published in 1997 and 1998); the Odd Thomas series (6 b

Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research Links “How Employees Feel About Coronavirus: Early Results from Forrester’s PandemicEX Survey” by James McQuivey at Forrester blog - March 11, 2020 Jeff Bezos’s letter to employees In-N-Out Burger’s Coronavirus statement - March 24, 2020 More Deadly Than War: The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and the First World War by Kenneth C. Davis (not mentioned in interview, but of possible interest) “Forrester Future Fit”: How Fit Are You?” By James McQuivey - April 1, 2019 “Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World” By Michael Pollan (Audible) Man Runs Marathon on Balcony in France (YouTube) Devoted by Dean Koontz Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

My Wife at Sunrise in Ocean Park, Maine Links Jeff Bezos’s letter to employees “Will Covid-19 change how Amazon-Haters See Amazon?” By David Enzel at Medium - March 24, 2020 “Amazon’s COVID-19 blog” at Day One - March 27, 2020 “What I Learned When My Husband Got Sick With Coronavirus” by Jessica Lustig at The New York Times - March 24, 2020 PSA Safe Grocery Shopping in COVID-19 Pandemic (YouTube) - March 24, 2020 “The new iPad Pro isn’t a laptop replacement. It’s better than that” by Jeremy White at Wired - March 24, 2020 “Ramblin’ Boy” by Tom Paxton (YouTube) Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems (YouTube) Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.  

Author of A Drop of Midnight: A Memoir Links Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité on Facebook, Instagram, and Wikipedia and YouTube Jason’s performance at Harlem Sound Stage (rescheduled for October) Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Author of Pandemic and other thrillers Interview starts at 1:05 and ends at 39:20 Links A G Riddle’s website My father’s poem, “Transition” (video) Next week’s guest: Jason Diakité, author of A Drop of Midnight: A Memoir Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.