10 Answers2026-07-27
Calibre's 'Fetch News' function is a real powerhouse. However, it's not for the faint of heart as it's a computer program that you need to run from your hard drive. The built-in recipes for many of the major newspapers sometimes don't work due to changes on the website. Instead you can find user-created recipes or even tinker with the settings of the built-in recipes yourself. But when it works, it's pure magic. You can even combine several sources for your morning digest of tech news, world news and webcomics. And the best part: it's all packed into a custom ebook, created specifically for you. It's everything that the instant, shiny app is not: utilitarian, personal and – so very old-school internet – wonderful!
7 Answers2025-08-17
When you think about it, the traditional publishing model of a newspaper is based on ad revenue and subscription revenue to the printed paper, delivered to your doorstep on a daily basis. Kindle Unlimited on the other hand, is a flat rate model for mostly evergreen content. If a newspaper were to publish their daily edition on KU, they would be pulling the teeth from their own publication and losing subscription dollars unless Amazon was paying per read in huge figures. Thus most such partnerships are loss leaders to acquire subscribers who will pay full price for a subscription after the trial period.
So available papers are likely to be ones that are looking to grow their digital subscriber numbers, i.e. new digital titles or those currently in intense competition in the market. Established titles with good subscriber numbers have little to gain from being on KU and thus there are relatively few available and the selection changes from time to time for economic reasons rather than technical ones.
7 Answers2026-07-29
No, technically not. Philosophically speaking, many gift cards are disguised cash with strings attached. Most people would rather receive a virtual Amazon.com gift card to purchase the books that the person knows that that individual reads (e.g. KindleUnlimited books, other books by that author, etc.) and perhaps a charger for their Kindle.
12 Answers2025-07-12
NYT Now, the news app the paper launched and then abandoned within a few months, was designed to be a condensed version of the newspaper for mobile readers. I’d love to see a daily Kindle file that was a similarly curated selection of the day’s top news, editorials and a feature, all optimally formatted for e-ink and e-readers and ready by 6 AM every day. (A mini crossword as an image would be a nice touch, too.) For some reason, the paper seems to think that its core subscribers — many of them older and more used to reading print — don’t use Kindles. But that’s not true for long. A well-executed Kindle edition could bring in a whole new group of readers.
8 Answers2025-07-06
From a purely technical perspective, reading magazines on a basic Kindle e-reader leaves a lot to be desired. The E-ink display refreshes very slowly, which makes image intensive magazines like National Geographic or Vogue a real chore to read on the device. The publication is basically rendered as a monochrome PDF.
Reading magazines made for reading books on a Kindle is what it was made for. Dense, long articles in magazines such as The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine and the London Review of Books look great on a Kindle – the black and white is sharp and clear and it makes for a fantastic reading experience. For someone who reads lots of long articles of high quality content, a Kindle would be a great addition to their reading library. For people who read magazine such as Architectural Digest, and style magazines such as GQ then a tablet with the Kindle app would be a better option, or even just buying the print version.
4 Answers2025-12-12
The most powerful story in “Somebody Told Me” is about the last diner in a dying town. I sit at the counter and listen to a group of very regular people tell stories to each other about their lives, and somehow, the plate of eggs in front of me becomes a elegy to the passing of an era. He has a very darkly funny piece about the courthouse dog (yes, the dog comforts the crime victims), and I find his witty and compassionate take on the goings-on of very local people perfectly balanced. His portrait of a sharecropper’s daughter, her hands rough from her work in the fields but her voice full of hope for her dreams is heart-wrenching and hopeful. The way he can find the universal in these very hyper-local stories is his magic.
11 Answers2025-07-04
Much confusion surrounds the term “Kindle” in relation to books but believe me it’s just a tag given to books in e-format. When checking out a book you will see the option to ‘Deliver to:’ and here you can select from any of your Kindle apps that you have registered on your amazon account i.e. ‘John’s iPhone’ or simply select the default Kindle app and the book will be sent to the ‘cloud’ to be downloaded at a later date by opening the relevant Kindle app on the chosen device. Very easy to do once you have done it.
9 Answers2025-07-06
it's a game-changer if you optimize it right. The key is formatting—I always convert PDFs to EPUB using Calibre since Kindle handles reflowable text better. Highlighting and notes sync beautifully with apps like Readwise, which I use to consolidate insights. For dense papers, I adjust the font to Bookerly at size 5 for maximum readability and use the X-Ray feature to track recurring terms. Some journals offer direct EPUB downloads now, which preserve figures and tables cleanly. I also tag papers by topic for quick retrieval later. It’s not perfect—complex equations still get messy—but the portability and search function make it worth it.
7 Answers2025-07-27
The core transaction is a sale. You pay for a permanent license to a digital book. The act of downloading a book is simply how you get the book onto your reading device, e.g. your eReader, your computer, your Kindle app on your tablet etc. Note that we are not talking about a stream – a stream requires you to have an active internet connection and for you to subscribe to a service. But once downloaded, you can read the book offline, so for example, you could purchase and download a bunch of books before a flight, turn off your phone in airplane mode and then read the books offline on your phone or tablet.
8 Answers2025-07-07
I can confidently say that the Kindle app for Kindle Fire supports a vast majority of novels, but there are some exceptions. The Kindle Store offers millions of titles, including bestsellers, classics, and indie books, all readable on the Fire. However, certain publishers or authors might restrict their books to specific platforms due to licensing agreements. For example, some Japanese light novels or niche indie works might not be available.
Additionally, you can sideload books not purchased from Amazon by converting files to compatible formats like MOBI or AZW3 using tools like Calibre. The Kindle Fire also supports PDFs, though the reading experience varies. It's worth noting that subscription services like Kindle Unlimited expand your options significantly, but not every novel is included. Always check the book's details page on Amazon to confirm compatibility.