Previously available only to Chrome and Safari users, Kindle Cloud Reader now works on Firefox, so you can read your Kindle books from within Mozilla’s browser online or offline. The web app syncs your Kindle library, as well as your bookmarks, notes, etc.
Want another eBook store option? You’ve got one — Google Books just started selling titles in Australia for both cloud and digital device reading.
If you need to mark your place in an actual, physical book, any old piece of paper will do: a business card, a boarding pass, a napkin. However, for a more efficient solution, reader Simon suggests using Post-It Flags to keep track of where you are.
We’ve been wondering what would happen with shipping prices from Book Depository ever since Amazon purchased it. In a related development, second-hand book seller AbeBooks (which is also owned by Amazon) has begun offering free Australian shipping on some titles.
The good news? Publishing giant Pearson has purchased the online operations of RedGroup Australia (collapsed owners of Borders and Angus & Robertson), which means that Kobo e-book owners can be assured their readers will continue to work and they’ll get new local titles. The perhaps less good news? Amazon has purchased discount online book vendor The Book Depository, which might make it a less attractive destination for bargain book buying.
We’ve shown you a couple of methods for creating a hollowed out book stash before, but it’s not too often that somebody takes the time to document their own effort on video. It turns out there’s a reason for that; it takes about 15 hours of hard, paper-cut-laden labour to build one out of a larger book, which is what you’d need to store anything more substantial than a couple of CDs.
