Kindle

Where to Invest

by dldamore

November 22, 2013
2:09:46 PM

Found this in the highlights of a Kindle book I was reading.

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
Benjamin Franklin

Review your highlights from Kindle books at https://kindle.amazon.com/your_highlights

If you highlight too much of a text you will loose the ability to see the early highlights this way. I saved highlights to a personal Evernote file, one per book. That way if the highlights become inaccessable this way I have the early highlights already saved in a file I can review in it’s entirety any time I want.

2:12:58 PM

Drucker on Innovation – The Time Lag

by dldamore

“Successful innovations exploit changes that have already happened. They exploit the time lag-in science, often twenty-five or thirty years between the change itself and its perception and acceptance.”

Peter Ferdinand Drucker. Managing in a Time of Great Change (Drucker Library) (p. 20). Kindle Edition.

 

A few minutes ago I was in the Kindle for Mac app and was reviewing text others and myself have highlighted in this book. The quote above jumped out at me.

What changes have recently occurred?

What are the opportunities that the future will present?

Something to think about.

The Future of Reading?

by dldamore

The Future of Reading?

Recently, Amazon released new Kindle models. With this introduction Amazon is beginning a push to integrate their Kindle e-books with their Audible audio books. Recently, I’ve noticed that if you buy the Kindle version first, you can purchase the corresponding audiobook version for a greatly deducted price. As I recall, the deal would be about $16. The idea is that you can read an e-book and switch to the audio version for listening on the go. The beauty is that the version are synced. Meaning, the versions can pick up where you left off in the other format. 

How will combination ebooks and audio books change the face of learning? Some people find it hard to sit for long periods of time reading a book. If, after an hour of reading it might be useful to get up and go for a walk… and, while you are out, continue listening to the book you were reading.

 

Bottom Line

This is an idea that will shape the future. 

 

Notes:

This is a quick post. There may be some incomplete thoughts and other typographical errors. This was written while listing (live) to Amplified, the 5by5 podcast with Dan Benjamin and Jim Dalrymple. iOS 6 comes out later today.

 

Harvard Business Review, do you want to sell more articles?

by dldamore

July 19, 2012

12:39 PM

While reading a book on a Kindle electronic reader, it came to me that there is not an easy way to order, buy or read the reference materials at the end of each chapter. It would be great if there was a way to get a preview, order, buy and read the article inside the Amazon ecosystem.

Harvard Business Review, do you want to sell more articles?

Notes: The book is The Innovator’s Solution. There are a lot of articles that interest me in the chapter end notes. There seems no easy way to order and buy them yet.

Original title for this post: Reading Resources – Increasing Sales

Lubricity of Commerce

12:46 PM

Kindle Network From Twitter Followings – Social Reading

by dldamore

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The Kindle reading network has some interesting possibilities.

  • Book clubs
  • Education: 
    • K-12,
    • College
    • University
    • Community Ed.
  • …

The key might be to arrange around some circle of relevance. Classes and topics make sense as these are areas one can identify interest in. How do you find areas of interest that are below the surface of consciousness? Perhaps this is solved by connecting with people from other networks something like a cross-pollination of interests.