According to Cedric Voets from Cracked.com, the very best feature of any video game is the in-game books… Support our news coverage by subscribing to our Kindle Nation Daily Digest. Joining is free right now! What if you could use your Twitch reading skills to thwart not just fictional villains, but real-life ones as well? For … Read more
The bestselling novel, Thinner, was originally published under the pseudonym Richard Bahman according to Jake Rossen of Mental Floss… Support our news coverage by subscribing to our Kindle Nation Daily Digest. Joining is free right now! Steve Brown was working his shift at Olsson’s Bookstore in Washington, D.C. in the spring of 1985 when he … Read more
From the hollers of Appalachia to the halls of Yale and Harvard Law, the course of Cassie Chambers’ life is a classic American story in the Horatio Alger mode, according to Chloe Hadavas from Slate… Support our news coverage by subscribing to our Kindle Nation Daily Digest. Joining is free right now! Cassie Chambers‘ new … Read more
According to Sarah Knapton from The Telgraph, neuroscientists have discovered that the same cognitive and emotional parts of the brain are stimulated whether a person hears words, or reads them on a page… Support our news coverage by subscribing to our Kindle Nation Daily Digest. Joining is free right now! Dr Fatma Deniz, a researcher … Read more
Scholars once doubted that pre-literate peoples could ever have composed and recited poems as long as the Odyssey, according to Matthew Wills from JStor Daily… Support our news coverage by subscribing to our Kindle Nation Daily Digest. Joining is free right now! Who was Homer? Or, to put it another way, who wrote Homer? The … Read more
Jess Zimmerman from AtlasObscura wonders what would the perfect fantasy treat look like? Depending on where you’re from, probably not this… Support our news coverage by subscribing to our Kindle Nation Daily Digest. Joining is free right now! Turkish Delight, or lokum, is a popular dessert sweet throughout Europe, especially in Greece, the Balkans, and, … Read more
Anna Gooding-Calfrom BookRiot asks, should you stay up until 3:00 AM to finish that novel? Support our news coverage by subscribing to our Kindle Nation Daily Digest. Joining is free right now! PRO: You’ll get to finish your book. At last, you’ll close your eyes with that sweet sense of accomplishment that can only come … Read more
Ken Jennings, the “Jeopardy!” superstar and Seattle author of 12 books, talks with Chris Talbott about book recommendations… Support our news coverage by subscribing to our Kindle Nation Daily Digest. Joining is free right now! Ken Jennings What book are you reading now? I’m always reading a bunch of books at once. I just started … Read more