Having some pleasant, but non-distracting, background music can help to build and maintain focus. If you’re stuck with a tedious task at work, like filing, data entry or running adding machine tapes, music definitely helps to pass the time. And if you’ve got a Kindle Fire, it can play music in the background while you’re reading a Kindle … Read more
Time to unveil this weekend’s Amazon Digital Deals winners! This weekend’s Digital Deals movie is Book of Eli (normally priced at $2.99 for the rental, avg review rating of 4/5 stars), starring Denzel Washington. Get it as a $1.99 digital rental through Sunday. Al Green’s Greatest Hits (normally priced at $8.90 to buy all songs, … Read more
It’s Thursday, and you know what that means: time to vote for next weekend’s Amazon Digital Deals. It’s a John Hughes teen comedy festival in movies. Your choices are Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Sixteen Candles, Weird Science and The Breakfast Club. The winner will be a $1.99 Instant Video Rental next weekend (6/8-6/10). This week’s music picks … Read more
The MP3 Music Store on Amazon is currently offering 28 must-have 90’s albums for $2.99 each. These are among the most critically-acclaimed and top-selling of all time. The list includes: Coldplay – Parachutes: average review rating of 4.5/5 stars across 715 reviews. Includes the hit singles Yellow, Don’t Panic, Trouble and Sparks. U2 – Achtung … Read more
Pocket Gems’ Tap games are apps that work kind of like The Sims, and are based on the digital pets concept: you create and maintain a simulated world inhabited with creatures you breed, raise and train. You earn credits in the game by completing certain tasks or simply finding “treasure”, and you use these to … Read more
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating is not your typical memoir. From Amazon: In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Bailey shares an inspiring and intimate story of her uncommon encounter with a Neohelix albolabris -a common woodland snail. While an illness keeps her bedridden, Bailey watches a … Read more
Podcasts: audio programming ranging from comedy to drama, talk shows to audiobooks, nonfiction to faith-based programs—and they’re not just for Apple devices, you know. There are lots of podcasts available in Amazon’s App Store, and you can listen to any of them through your Fire’s speakers or headphones. As an added bonus, podcasts tend to … Read more
We’re pleased to share this post from our sister site, Kids Corner on Kindle Nation Daily. Last week we announced that Kyle Timmermeyer’s LEGEND OF THE ELEMENTALS, BOOK 1: REINTRODUCTION is our Kids Corner Book of the Week and the sponsor of thousands of great bargains in the Kids Book category: over 250 free titles, … Read more