The Kindle Chronicles

Co-founder and CEO of Rocketbook

Interview starts at 13:35 and ends at 54:00

Links

Amazon Halo - Early Access special price of $64.99

"Amazon unveils Halo to battle Apple Watch and Fitbit — tracks activity, body fat, emotions" by Christina Farr at CNBC - August 27, 2020

Echo Frames - $179.99 at Amazon.com

"How to Make Alexa talk faster (or slower)" by Hugh Langley at the ambient - July 8, 2020

Rocketbook web site

FriXion pen by Pilot

Rocketbook Panda Planner (executive size, includes FriXion pen and microfiber cloth) at Amazon.com - $35

Rocketbook Fusion Notebook at Amazon.com - $37

Rocketbook Orbit Kickstarter - pledges starting at $29

Palmer Method of penmanship (Wikipedia)

Rocketbook Beacons for whiteboards - $15.00 at Amazon.com

Note: Please email me at PodChronicles AT gmail if you'd like an invitation to the private Facebook group Len's Birthday Bash to hear the Jim Robitaille Trio's livestream jazz performance at my 70th birthday party. If all goes according to plan, they will be playing in a studio in southern Massachusetts, streaming to my Fire TV Edition Toshiba smart TV here in Ocean Park, Maine. The music will begin a little before 11 am ET on Sunday, August 30th. I hope you can join us!

Upcoming Guests

Brad Parks, author of Interference, available for pre-order with delivery

Erica Bauermeister, author of The Scent Keeper

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Editor-in-Chief of Publishing Perspectives

Interview starts at 15:47 and ends at 51:40

Links

"Amazon Names Dave Clark Consumer CEO to Replace Retiring Jeff Wilke" by Matt Day at

"Executives who work for Amazon's logistics kingpin Dave Clark become 'Dave Whisperers'" by Rachel Premack at Business Insider - August 21, 2020

"Prime Day 2020? Amazon kicks off huge sale with deals on 38 Amazon devices" by Elyse Betters Picaro at ZDNet - August 18, 2020

Porter Anderson's Linkedin page

The Bookseller and FutureBook.net

Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center

Delta Airlines FAQ on coronavirus impact

Frankfurt Book Fair

"Digital Programming: The UK's Women's Prize Would Like to Sell You a Ticket" by Porter Anderson at Publishing Perspectives - August 19, 2020

"US Publishers, Authors, Booksellers Call Out Amazon's 'Concentrated Power' in the Market" by Porter Anderson at Publishing Perspectives - August 17, 2020

Books recommended by Porter Anderson: Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne Applebaum, The Madman Theory: Trump Takes on the World by Jim Sciutto, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump, Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth by Brian Stelter (available for pre-order with release on August 25, 2020)

Upcoming Guests

Joe Lemay, co-founder and CEO of Rocketbook

Brad Parks, author of Interference, available for pre-order with delivery

Erica Bauermeister, author of The Scent Keeper

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Manager of Kindle Accessibility at Amazon

Interview starts at 16:17 and ends at 52:05

Links

PocketBook Color - available at Good E Reader for $219.99 plus shipping

Echo Frames - $179.99 at Amazon.com

"Amazon and Mall Operator Look at Turning Sears, J.C. Penney Stores Into Fulfillment Centers" by Esther Fung and Sebastian Herrera at The Wall Street Journal - August 9, 2020

JoAnna Hunt at Linkedin

"A commitment to accessibility and inclusion" at Amazon's Day One blog - July 15, 2020

Reading Ruler

Next Week's Guest

Porter Anderson, editor-in-chief of Publishing Perspectives

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Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research

Interview starts at 7:43 and ends at 49:35

Links

Rocketbook reusable notebook (mini) - $13.56 at Amazon.com

James McQuivey's website

Nicholas A. Christakis

"Amazon's Antitrust Paradox" by Lina M. Khan at The Yale Law Journal - January 2017

Jeff Bezos's opening statement to Congress (YouTube) - July 29, 2020

The Media Monopoly by Ben H. Bagdikian (paperback only)

Burpee Challenge

Wim Hof website

The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It by Neal Bascomb

This Week in Virology podcast

The Creative Penn

Next Week's Guest

JoAnna Hunt, Manager-Kindle Accessibility at Amazon

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Curator of a free poem-of-the-week email list

Interview starts at 20:34 and ends at 51:52

Links

Jeff Bezos's opening statement to Congress (YouTube) - July 29, 2020

"Amazon's Antitrust Paradox" by Lina M. Khan at The Yale Law Review - January 2017

"Amazon confirms Prime Day delay in the US" by Jon Porter at The Verge - July 21, 2020

reMarkable 2 tablet - available for pre-order at $399

iPad Pro - starting at $749

To request inclusion on Richard Bruno's free email list for weekly poems, please email him at richardgbruno AT gmail DOT com

"The familiarity of a poem: Connie Schultz" at Cleveland.com - April 13, 2011

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Photo by Ryan Lash

Host of Live On Lockdown and We're Having a Moment

Interview starts at 10:59 and ends at 51:49

Links

"Antitrust hearing indefinitely postponed" by Rachel Kraus at Mashable - July 24,2020

"How to convert a PDF file for your Kindle" at The Verge

Baratunde Thurston's website

Live On Lockdown

"We're Having a Moment" podcast

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

Baratunde's Patreon Page and TED talk (2019)

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Author of Pandemic and other thrillers

Links

"Amazon pilots opening health care centers near its fulfillment centers" at Day One Blog - July 14, 2020

"What's Ailing an Amazon Health Venture" By Paris Martineau at The Information (paywall) - July 16, 2020

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Instapaper

A.G. Riddle's website

A. G. Riddle's store at Amazon.com

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Founder and CEO of @Skilltype

Links

Skilltype

Tony Zanders at Boston University Libraries

The Quantified Self movement

"Why the Amazon Kindle is a bibliophile's digital must-have" by Whitson Gordon at NBC News - July 9, 2020

Pocket to Amazon Kindle (P2k)

Len's "How to Choose a Kindle" YouTube video - June 2019

Amazon adds hands-free activation to Alexa app via GeekWire - July 7, 2020

"How to use Alexa on the Apple Watch" by Conor Allison at Wareable - January 8, 2020

Echo Frames at Amazon.com

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Senior Editor-Trade Books at Amazon.com

Links

Erin Kodicek's links at The Amazon Book Review

Amazon Book Review Podcast

Amazon's 2020 Best Books of the Year So Far

Next Week's Guest

Tony Zanders, Founder & CEO of Skilltype

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Author of Mop Rides the Waves of Life:

A Story of Mindfulness and Surfing

Interview starts at 0:59 and ends at 33:44

Links

Mop Rides the Waves of Life: A Story of Mindfulness and Surfing by Jaimal Yogis and Matt Allen - available for pre-order, with release on June 30, 2020

Jaimal Yogis's web site, including these videos: How to Surf Your Emotions, 1-Minute Meditation For Kids (And Kids at Heart), Guided Ocean Meditation for Sleep and Relaxation

Previous books by Jaimal Yogis: Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer's Quest to Find Zen on the Sea (2009), The Fear Project: What Our Most Primal Emotion Taught Me About Survival, Success, Surfing...and Love (2013), and All Our Waves Are Water: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment and the Perfect Ride (2017)

Pacific Primary

Amazon announces acquisition of Zoox at Day One Blog - June 26, 2020

"Amazon Shakes Up the Race for Self-Driving--and Ride-Hailing" by Aarian Marshall at Wired - June 26, 2020

Zoox demo drive (YouTube) - April 17, 2020

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