The Kindle Chronicles

This is a special "flash" episode of The Kindle Chronicles with my coverage of today's Amazon products and services event. The big news was that Astro, a home robot, is being offered for invite-only purchase later this year for a price of $1,000. It looks like an amazing invention, and I want one!

I'm finishing this episode in time to head north to Casper, Wyoming, in the new Tesla I picked up in Boulder yesterday. Onward!

On the Cambridge Lanai with Sophie

Links

Kindle Oasis

"New Kindle Software Update 5.13.7 Brings User Interface Changes" by Nathan at eBookreader.com

The Edge of the Road podcast (recently updated after a two-year hiatus)

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Mystic, Episcopal Priest, and Author

Links

Cynthia Bourgeault's website

Books by Cynthia

Wisdom Waypoints

Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC)

Spiritual Gifts from the Imaginal Realm, an on-demand e-course available through Spirituality & Practice

Eye of the Heart: A Spiritual Journal into the Imaginal Realm by Cynthia Bourgeault

If you'd like brief updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, "Alexa, enable Morning Journal." Then each morning say, "Alexa, what's my flash briefing?" I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 8 a.m. Eastern Time.

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Principal Product Manager, Kindle Vella

Interview starts at 13:45 and ends at 49:18

Note: I will be discussing my Virginia Milner interview Tuesday July 27th, 2021, at 1 pm EDT on Clubhouse. (Please note: audio in the podcast incorrectly states the Clubhouse meeting will be on Monday) Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I've also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join!

Links

Virginia Milner, principal product manager for Kindle Vella.

Amazon Launches Kindle Vella - press release July 13, 2021

Kindle Direct Publishing including Kindle Vella

Death and Life: A Biography by Hugh Howey - on Kindle Vella

Other Vellas to check out:

WOLF (Stope Packs #1) by Rebecca Zanetti

Bug by Callie Chase

The Marriage Auction by Audrey Carlan

Readwise

read.Amazon.com

Gabriel Allon (21-book series) by Daniel Silva

Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right by Jamie Glowack

Note: This episode concludes Season 1 of The Kindle Chronicles, which lasted 13 years. Season 2 will start on Friday, September 10, 2021. Thanks for listening!

If you'd like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, "Alexa, enable Morning Journal." Then each morning say, "Alexa, what's my flash briefing?" I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 8 a.m. Eastern Time.

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President of the Ocean Park Association

Interview starts at 2:41 and ends at 47:17

Note: I will be discussing my Rob Drake interview Tuesday July 20th, 2021, at 1 pm EDT on Clubhouse. (Please note change from usual scheduling on Mondays) Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I've also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join!

Links

Amazon Launches Kindle Vella - press release July 13, 2021

Ocean Park Association - Ocean Park, Maine

Ocean Park Vision Survey

Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy by Ben Macintyre

Mrs. Osmond: A Novel by John Banville

Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

Commisario Brunettti (30-book series) by Donna Leon

The Maisie Dobbs series (16 books) by Jacqueline Winspear

Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson by Gordon S. Wood

Next Week's Guest

Virginia Milner, principal product manager for Kindle Vella.

If you'd like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, "Alexa, enable Morning Journal." Then each morning say, "Alexa, what's my flash briefing?" I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 8 a.m. Eastern Time.

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Author of The Lost Girls

Interview starts at 2:27 and ends at 33:08

Photo by Joanne Chiarella

Note: I will be discussing my Jessica Chiarella interview Monday July 12th, 2021, at 1 pm EDT on Clubhouse. Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I've also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join!

Links

Jeff Tweedy interviewed by Ezra Klein - July 2, 2021

How to Write One Song by Jeff Tweedy

And Again: A Novel by Jessica Chiarella

DePaul University interview with Jessicva Chiarelli (YouTube)

Serial podcast Season One

The Jinx - HBO

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

The Martian by Andy Weir

Next Week's Guest

Rob Drake, incoming President of the Ocean Park Association

If you'd like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, "Alexa, enable Morning Journal." Then each morning say, "Alexa, what's my flash briefing?" I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 8 a.m. Eastern Time.

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Author of Dead by Dawn, (Mike Bowditch Mysteries Book 12)

Interview starts at 6:30 and ends at 53:13

Photo by Mark Fleming

Note: I will be discussing my Paul Doiron interview Monday July 5th, 2021, at 1 pm EDT on Clubhouse. Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I've also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join!

Links

Laufey website

Paul Doiron

Mike Bowditch Mysteries (12-Book Series) by Paul Doiron

Kristen Lindquist

C J Box

Ann Rittenberg Literary Agency

Luanne Rice

Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why by Laurence Gonzales

Down East Magazine

Jeff Bezos invites Wally Funk to join him on the first crewed Blue Origin flight on July 20th. (Instagram video) - July 1, 2021

Next Week's Guest

Jessica Chiarella, author of The Lost Girls, available for pre-order with release on July 6, 2021

If you'd like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, "Alexa, enable Morning Journal." Then each morning say, "Alexa, what's my flash briefing?" I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 8 a.m. Eastern Time.

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Co-founder of Matter

Interview starts at 16:06 and ends at 56:21

Note: I will be discussing my Ben Springwater interview Monday June 28, 2021, at 1 pm EDT on Clubhouse. Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I've also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join!

Links

Amazon Prime Day press release - June 23, 2021

Kobo Elipsa

reMarkable 2 tablet

Helix Jump at the App Store

Click here for my personal invite to join Matter

"On Bullshit" by Harry G. Frankfurt (PDF), first published in 1986, followed by an 81-page book with the same title in 2005.

"How I Became the Honest Broker" by Ted Gioia at his Culture Notes of an Honest Broker newsletter - May 26, 2021

Readwise

Andy Matuschak

Substack

Letters from an American - Substack newsletter by Heather Cox Richardson

Noahpinion - Substack newsletter by Noah Smith

Ted Lasso on Apple TV+

Next Week's Guest

Paul Doiron, author of Dead by Dawn: A Novel (Mike Bowditch Mysteries, Book 12), available for pre-order with release on June 29, 2021

If you'd like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, "Alexa, enable Morning Journal." Then each morning say, "Alexa, what's my flash briefing?" I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 8:00 am Eastern Time.

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Digital Public Library of America's

Director of Business Development & Senior Strategist

Interview starts at 13:17 and ends at 46:40

Note: I will be discussing my Michele Kimpton interview Monday June 21, 2021, at 1 pm EDT on Clubhouse. Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I've also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join!

Links

Digital Public Library of America

DPLA Exchange

SimplyE e-reader app

"DPLA signs agreement with Amazon Publishing to make their books available to U.S. libraries" (press release) - May 18, 2021

"Amazon Publishing, DPLA Ink Deal to Lend E-books in Libraries" by Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly - May 18, 2021

"The best early Prime Day deals" by Brandon Widder at The Verge - June 16, 2021

The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere by Pico Iyer

Nameless Season 2, Amazon Original Stories by Dean Koontz

Next Week's Guest

Ben Springwater, founder of Matter

If you'd like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, "Alexa, enable Morning Journal." Then each morning say, "Alexa, what's my flash briefing?" I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 8:00 am Eastern Time.

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Author of Mop Rides the Waves of Change

Interview starts at 6:32 and ends at 44:46

Note: I will be discussing my Jaimal Yogis interview Monday June 14, 2021, at 1 pm EDT on Clubhouse. Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I've also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join!

Links

Mop Rides the Waves of Change by Jaimal Yogis - available for pre-order with release on July 13, 2021

Mop Rides the Waves of Life: A Story of Mindfulness and Surfing by Jaimal Yogis (2020)

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

Next Week's Guest

Michele Kimpton, director of business development and senior strategist at the Digital Public Library of America

If you'd like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, "Alexa, enable Morning Journal." Then each morning say, "Alexa, what's my flash briefing?" I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 8:00 am Eastern Time.

The Kindle Chronicles is now available at Audible Podcasts. The only thing missing are ratings! If you have time, please consider leaving one in order to help others learn about the show.

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