After reading Joe Hill’s ghost story thriller Heart-Shaped Box and thoroughly enjoying it, I was happy to dive into Hill’s Horns (4/5 stars, currently priced at $7.99). Unfortunately, for me, it proved to be a disappointment. Not because of any lack of quality in the writing, but because most of the book doesn’t match its description. From … Read more
There’s nothing like blasting a good breakup album to make you feel a whole lot better about being alone on Valentine’s Day, or at least like you’re not really alone at all in being single. And there’s no one like a talented songwriter to put the misery and anger of a hard breakup to music … Read more
Over the past few years, there’s been a huge resurgence in Sherlock Holmes’ popularity. Whether it’s because the Victorian England setting is newly hip thanks to steampunk, or it’s simply the next major literary classic to be embraced by writers and filmmakers (see Wicked / Wizard of Oz, Pride & Prejudice & Zombies / Pride & Prejudice, Abraham … Read more
This is a cross-post from KF on KND Editor in Chief April L. Hamilton’s new site, The Digital Media Mom, and it is reprinted here in its entirety with her permission. Digital Video: It’s The Last Video Format You’ll Ever Buy As a matter of fact, it’s the only video format you’ve been buying since … Read more
The comment thread on Amazon’s page dedicated to yesterday’s $5 Instant Video sale Gold Box deal was very lively, and filled with many myths and signs of confusion. An earlier KF on KND post on Managing Your Instant Video Library addressed a lot of the confusion surrounding Instant Video licensing and usage, but it seems … Read more
In a word, at this point in time, assuming you haven’t hacked your Fire and don’t “sideload” apps to it, no. Not really. While it’s true that the Kindle Fire runs on the Android platform, and there have been numerous reports of hackers targeting phones that run on the Android platform, that doesn’t mean they’re … Read more
Kindle Fire + iPod: The Grudging Marriage Born of Necessity Most people who have a Kindle Fire use it for apps, video, email, web browsing and reading ebooks, but not many use it for music. Music sounds great on the new HD models, but the Fire is just a little too big to easily toss … Read more
Amazon is in the process of rolling out a potentially very cool new set of features that they are calling FreeTime, and as is so often the case with 1.0 versions of new functionality, we have good news and bad news. First, we’re excited about the things that we expect FreeTime will allow us to do … Read more