Last week Amazon updated the software for the Kindle Touch that now makes the Touch the most advanced Kindle of all.  While the Kindle family continues to diverge, it is easy to see that Amazon is betting the future on the Touch and touch enabled devices.   The new versions is number 5.1.0.  To see whether you have it, go to the Home screen, then tap menu > settings, and on the settings screen, tap menu again, and then Device Info.   If the version number does not read 5.1.0, you can download the new software from Amazon and follow their simple directions for installing it. After update...

In answer to the question, ‘What page was that on?’  The answer is: ‘it depends.’  It depends if you are reading the book on a Kindle, that is.  The problem of pagination with electronic texts is shared by all eReaders, of course, but since Kindles are the most popular I will concentrate on them in this post. If you are reading the book on the Kindle Fire, Amazon’s latest color tablet eReader, the answer is ‘I don’t know,’ because the Fire does not display page numbers—yet, at least.  You read books on the Fire with the Android version of the Kindle...

I wrote this review for my personal blog, but liked this app so much that I thought I would add some material to the post and bring it to the more general audience of this blog. I ran across a great app for iPad today.  It’s called “Free Books” and is just what it says, a free interface to 23,469 public domain books from Project Gutenberg.  In fact, I liked it so much that I purchased (for all of 99 cents) it’s companion app called “Classicly HD,” which is the same app with access to the same collection of free books, but also access to 2,947 audiobooks from...