When Amazon announced the availability of the Kindle 2 for international customers, including the Netherlands where I live, I was excited. Finally we too would get full access to the Kindle store via Whispernet. Like I wrote in this blog, I sold my BeBook and pre-ordered a Kindle 2.

But, the information that arrived afterwards cooled down my excitement and enthusiasm very rapidly. I had heard th… Continue

When I bought my BeBook last March, it was my first eBook reader. Amazon didn't sell the DX yet and Kindles were available only in the US. I was happy with the BeBook even though it didn't have whispernet, notes, search. I did have folder though.

After the DX arrived I went through the trouble of ordering one through a company that offers a service where you can have Amazon ship it to their address in the US and they then ship it to you in the Netherlands (for a fee of course).
I am still happy… Continue

As the publisher of ENCOUNTER: Education for Meaning and Social Justice (and a recent Edukindle subscriber), I would like to a free 3-month subscription to the magazine to all Edukindle subscribers.

ENCOUNTER is in the process of transforming its current paper-only edition into a unique paper/digital hybrid magazine that involves the biweekly distribution of forthcoming articles to subscribers in pdf and e-book formats, a blog that provides subscribers with the opportunity to comment on the sub… Continue

I am about to implement ten Kindles in our elementary Title I classrooms. These Kindles will be used by both Title I and General Education teachers to work with Title I students. Our teachers are excited about the possibility of having multiple texts available to our students at a moments notice. The fact that we can download texts onto multiple Kindles is very attractive.