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Undone

Despite a lousy movie-going experience, I found the theatrical presentation of the first two episodes of the Amazon Prime series, Undone, to be quite compelling. The presentation format is primarily a rotoscoped cartoon. We’ve seen this before in A Scanner Darkly or Heavy Metal.… Read the rest “Undone”
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The @audible_com iPad app should allow synchronized bookmarks across devices like the Kindle app– now that would be cool

Once of the best features of Amazon Kindle is the ability to sync your location between devices. I would love to have that ability in my Audible.com audiobooks. I often listen to books on my iPod in my car. I have the same book on my iPhone but it is very difficult to get back to the same spot.… Read the rest “The @audible_com iPad app should allow synchronized bookmarks across devices like the Kindle app– now that would be cool”
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Amazon’s preview of their Kindle App for Tablet Computers still makes no mention of newspapers and magazines

Amazon has announced that they are working on applications to allow users to read books on several platforms including the iPad. Like the Kindle app for Mac and iPhone, it does not appear that Amazon will allow Newspaper and Magazine subscriptions to be usable on these new platforms.… Read the rest “Amazon’s preview of their Kindle App for Tablet Computers still makes no mention of newspapers and magazines”