Candace Amazon Instant Videos: What’s It All About?! If you’re like me, you’ve bought some Amazon Instant Videos of favorite movies and programs when they were on sale, and now you’re a little confused about what you can and can’t do with them. Once you’ve downloaded a video to your PC, can you still download it … Read more
The new Kindle Fire HD entry-level model has a 7″ display screen, but that’s pretty much where the similarities between it and the first-generation Kindle Fire chassis end. To begin with, the KFHD has a slightly larger, slightly thinner, and slightly lighter footprint. Where the original Kindle Fire is 7 3/8″ long by 4 5/8″ … Read more
I first read R.J. Keller’s Waiting For Spring years ago, long before it was picked up by the Amazon Encore imprint on account of its popularity with readers, and was immediately recommending it to everyone I know who can appreciate a character-driven drama. There are no car chases, explosions, serial killers or couples who “meet cute” in this … Read more
After watching the wonderful Showtime series, The Tudors, I was very anxious to read more about the Tudor court. A friend recommended Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker prize winner, Wolf Hall. It’s a very long book, yet so fascinating that it seemed a pretty quick read. I’m surprised to see that some reviewers have been highly … Read more
I love movies. I love, love, LOVE movies. Movies are a lot like music and books for me: they have positive or negative associations with whatever was going on in my life at the time I was first exposed to them, they can evoke certain feelings, they can be a much-needed distraction or source of comfort in times … Read more
If you’re an HBO subscriber and your cable provider supports it (most of the biggies do), you’ve got to get the HBO GO app for your Kindle Fire. This app allows you to watch streaming content from HBO on your Fire device. It’s going to make a wealth of great HBO programming available on your … Read more
We’re introducing a new, regular feature here at Kindle Fire on Kindle Nation Daily: the Amazon Encore Spotlight. Today we kick off the new feature with an Amazon Encore Editor’s Pick: a book I’ve personally read and can personally recommend. Amazon Encore is one of Amazon’s own publishing imprints, and its editors are tasked with finding … Read more
We don’t often post about services and content not specifically intended for use with the Kindle Fire device here, but let’s face it: when it comes to all things retail digital music, Apple was there before Amazon and still holds the majority of the digital music market by a pretty comfortable margin. So most of the people … Read more