St. Peter’s Brewery on Kindle Match

St Peters Brewery

I just enrolled St. Peter’s Brewery in Amazon’s Kindle Match program. If you purchased the book in paperback from Amazon.com, you’ll be able to download the book for free on your Kindle in a couple days.

You can visit Amazon.com to find out more and find any other books you might have that are eligible.

Or if you haven’t ordered your copy of the book – definitely do so!

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Cheap Kindle books for $.99 or less

Kindle with case (for @headphonaught)
Kindle with case | Photo by Jonathan Blundell

I found several GREAT deals on books for Kindle today — all of them $.99 or less!

And rest assured, that while these may be “cheap Kindle books” – the content is anything but.

Not sure how long they’ll be on sale – so grab them while you can.
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Libraries of tomorrow

Library, Hermitage of st Bernardine, Stroud, NSW | Photo by Friar's Balsam

A random thought/idea came to me today.

Last year Amazon began allowing loaning books between Kindle users. In addition they just announced (this week I believe) that libraries will now be able to purchase Kindle versions, for patrons to borrow and read on any Kindle enabled device.

(FREE software is available to read Kindle books on iPhone, iPad, Windows PC, Mac, Blackberry, Android and Windows Phone devices.)

You can loan a book to anyone with an e-mail address via the Kindle Manager (as long as the publisher has enabled lending).

So as I was thinking about how this might be an awesome avenue for sharing ideas and material with not just my friends next door, but my friends across the pond, I started thinking…
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To iPad or not, that is the question

iPad 2 with Facetime
iPad 2 with Facetime | Photo via Apple PR

So I’ve never been an Apple fan-boy like my friend Thomas. But I do use an iPhone 3G on an almost hourly basis these days.

And recently I’ve started considering purchasing an iPad2 as well… but I’m not sold on the idea as of yet.

You see my biggest complaint with the iPad is that its seems to be solely about media consumption — which is how it was seemingly pitched in the beginning.

But now as more and more apps flood the market, the tide seems to be changing. There are more and more options out there for creating as well as consuming content. And with that in mind, my mind is shifting as well.

Now I can see the iPad 2 doing many of the things I might use it for.
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