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kindle paperwhite: for you CONTEST CLOSED

DRAWING CLOSED. I’ll post the name of the winner early Wednesday morning.

 

I’m giving away a new Kindle Paperwhite. Random drawing, simple rules:

1. Enter once and only once (IP addresses are noted by the program)

2. Name one good book you’ve read that was published in 2012 or 2013, for the first time. So no new editions of something first published in 2001

3. I’ll draw a name in about two week’s time. You must come back here to find out if you’ve won. If I don’t hear from the winner in five days, I’ll draw a new name.

Good luck!

 

4. October 2013 by organizational

Kindle Gets Better

I have been in love with Kindle pretty much since day one. Early versions had their problems, most (but not all) of which have been solved.  Many people are nostalgic about print and don’t want to go over to electronic books, but there are advantages to my Kindle which can’t be denied:

  • I have thousands of books in this house, but very few of them are books I’ll need or read again. The books on my Kindle account are kept for me in the so-called Cloud. I may never read or need some of them again either, but if  I do, it takes about thirty seconds to download one and I don’t have to search the whole house for it first.  When we move it’s just the Kindle that goes in my purse, and not a hundred boxes that weight forty pounds each.
  • Whatever Kindle books I own I can also read on my laptop. This is important for research, because while I can take notes on the Kindle itself,  I don’t like flat keyboards. For academic or research work, I open the book on the Kindle app, which is more flexible anyway: better search and notation features. I can copy a paragraph I need to notes (and the citation information is automatically attached). Just the mere ability to search is like a dream come true when the issue is research.
  • I can read in bed without disturbing the mathematician.
  • I never lose my place in the book.

There are some great new features coming (see the summary here):

Starting in October, many (but not all) hard-copy book which (1) I bought from Amazon (new, not used) and (2) is available in Kindle format will be made available to add to my Kindle library for somewhere between free and three bucks. They are calling this feature Kindle Matchbook.

The wifi features are improving. The newest Kindle (also coming out in October) will have automatic access not just to definitions, but also to Wikipedia. Any word you touch (which brings up a definition) will be saved automatically to a list for future reference.

There is going to be a direct connection to GoodReads, the details still forthcoming (but this will be very useful).

There will be in-line footnotes. Okay, so I’m an academic, and this is a nerdy academic thing, but WOW. I can click on a footnote number and read it right then, no need to go searching someplace else. This makes me happy.

All this makes me so happy that I am going to give away a Kindle — the new Paperwhite Kindle version coming out in October. I’ll set up a way to enter the giveaway drawing in a week or so. So watch this space.

 

Note: mailart by Luciano Ragozzino, “Giornata della memoria 2012”

 

 

7. September 2013 by technology

homestead is up on kindle

Kindle edition of Homestead

Kindle edition of Homestead

[It’s up and available here.]

After a lot of fussing (OCD is a life-long companion, like living with Felix and if you don’t know who that is, never mind) I have edited Homestead for publication as an ebook with Kindle. It should go live sometime tomorrow and at that point I’ll post the link here. In the meantime, here’s the cover.

Lots of good news:

1. I’ve slightly revised most of the chapters, which makes me happy to get rid of little niggles and clarify some things.

2. I’ve added illustrations and photos, as well as a map. I may add more, if the response is positive. And if I do, anyone who has already purchased Homestead/Kindle can download it again at no additional cost.

3. I’ve moved the clan charts to the front of the book, for those people who needed them but didn’t think to look in the appendix. If there’s any complain about Homestead it usually has to do with the complicated relationships between the characters, and I’m hoping easy access to the clan charts will solve this problem.

4. It’s priced at 4.99, and there will be at least one “download for free” promotion day in the next week. Check back here or on my FaceBook page for that announcement.

And two requests:

1. Reviews are very important on Amazon, as you are probably aware, in terms of sales. Homestead has a lot of really excellent critical reviews from big places, but not so many personal reviews. If you have read it and liked it and have a moment to post a short review, I would very much appreciate the support.

2. Please spread the word. Oh and, if you know of a good marketing strategy that doesn’t cost money, please leave me a note. I’d love to hear about it.

28. January 2013 by *my work Homestead

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My name is Rosina Lippi. I'm a former academic and tenured university professor,  writing full time since 2000. Under the pen name Sara Donati I am the author of the Wilderness series, six historical novels that follow the fortunes of a group of families living in upstate New York from about 1792-1825. A new series based on later generations of the same families was launched September 1, 2015 with The Gilded Hour. The next volume in the new series,  Where the Light Enters, was  released in 2019.

 

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