Traveler, teller of tales, reviewer of eReaders Interview starts at 15:25 and ends at 41:53 “To be honest, I haven’t met one person outside tech nerds like myself that use it [Kindle’s X-Ray feature.] I very rarely use it. I kind of go ‘Let’s see what this is about.” I think it takes away from the immersion of reading. If I’m interested in something I’ll take a look at it later on, but during the reading process I don’t really want to leave.” News Jeff Bezos interviewed in Berlin by Mathias Dopfner at Business Insider - April 28, 2018 The Post (2017) at Prime Video Personal History by Katharine Graham Tech Tip “Google’s ‘Talk to Books’ Might Have Just Changed Everything” by Bradley Metrock at Digital Book World - April 15, 2018 Talk to Books Content Amazon’s new Prime Book Box program for young readers Interview with Séamus Bellamy Basic Kindle, Paperwhite, and Oasis Kobo Pocket Overdrive for Kobo ReMarkable tablet Seamus Bellamy articles at USA Today’s Reviewed site, BoingBoing, Macworld and PCWorld Comments Click here for information about visiting Amazon’s headquarters and the spheres in Seattle Next Week’s Guest James Fallows and Deborah Fallows, authors of Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America, to be released on May 8, 2018 by Pantheon. (Note: this episode will be released on Wednesday to coincide with the book’s release, instead of the usual episode upload on Friday.) Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!