New Kindle App - Calculator

There is a second Calculator in the Kindle store, this one from 7 Dragons (the first, Easy Calculator, is from Mobigloo); both are selling for 99 cents. If anyone buys them both, let us know how they compare. I already have the one from Mobigloo (and a calculator on my phone), but might consider this one, if there are enough added features. This app will need something to distinguish it before it can knock Easy Calculator out of its #6 slot in the Active Content lists.

Book Description
Now a calculator can be with you wherever you travel. Use Calculator for Kindle to make those quick, every-day calculations like computing sales discounts, double-checking an invoice, or computing a restaurant tip.

In addition to basic math operations, Calculator also includes Square Roots, percentages and exponents, and the trigonometric functions Sine, Cosine, and Tangent. You have standard calculator Memory Functions, and you also get Calculator History; in which the last 10 items and last 10 calculation results are saved for later reference.

Calculator offers keyboard shortcuts to help you work quickly, and a last function undo and digit by digit undo functions to help you correct errors. Help pages explain each feature, and a Shortcuts List page clearly lists all shortcuts.

Now you can do all your calculations on Kindle.

50% off a Kindle Lighted Leather Cover (KSO)

This offer is for those with the Kindle Wi-Fi with Special Offers or Kindle 3G + Wi-Fi with Special Offers only. View the Special Offers on your Kindle (Menu, Special Offers) and you should see a new promotion (if you don't, turn on your wireless, click Menu, Sync & Check for New Items, then after the sync has completed, go to the Special Offers screen):

50% off a Kindle Lighted Leather Cover

Click on offer, then click on the link on the offer page sign up and get an email with the promotion code. Sign-up for this offer expires on May 28 (so those who have just ordered a KSO have plenty of time to take advantage of this deal).

You'll get an email (right away), a link to Kindle Lighted Leather Covers page and a promotion code to enter at checkout. Once you have the promotional code, you have until Aug 28 to complete your purchase. Details and terms are on this page. Like previous offers, this one requires you to use the full checkout process in order to enter your promotional code. Also, like all Amazon sales that use promotional codes, if you have a gift card balance, you must use it for the payment (if there is not a sufficient balance, then you can pick which credit card or other payment to use).

Maybe now I'll order a cover for my naked KSO, to protect it a bit better in the event it gets knocked off the shelf.

Free Book (PDF) - Little Caesar

Little Caesar ($7.99 Kindle), by W.R. Burnett, is free in DRM'd PDF format over on Copia.

Book Description
The savage chronicle of a gangland boss's odyssey toward power and destruction in the savage Chicago underworld of the 1920's. Burnett's criminous short story, DRESSING UP, won the O. Henry First Prize in 1929. Edward G. Robinson made a landmark role of his portrayal in the film adaptation.

Click HERE to get the free book from Copia. Make sure it still says "Your Price: $0.00" before clicking on Buy Now (don't use the cart, it doesn't show up as free). You'll need an account there, if you don't have one already, and the Copia reader to download the books (this is a requirement, no way around it). Once downloaded, though, you can move the books into Adobe ADE or onto your EPUB ereader.

Free Book (EPUB) - In the Heat of the Night

In the Heat of the Night ($4.49 Kindle), by John Dudley Ball, is free in EPUB format over on Copia.

Book Description
Winner of an Edgar Award and recently named one of the top one hundred mystery novels of the century, John Dudley Ball's classic In the Heat of the Night tells the story of Virgil Tibbs, a black detective tracking a murderer in a small Southern town. The novel inspired both the 1967 film starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger and the television series starring Carroll O'Connor and continues to delight readers with its gripping narrative and honest look at race relations during the Civil Rights Era..

Click HERE to get the free book from Copia. Make sure it still says "Your Price: $0.00" before clicking on Buy Now (don't use the cart, it doesn't show up as free). You'll need an account there, if you don't have one already, and the Copia reader to download the books (this is a requirement, no way around it). Once downloaded, though, you can move the books into Adobe ADE or onto your EPUB ereader.

Free Book (EPUB) - Bang the Drum Slowly

Bang the Drum Slowly ($5.39 Kindle), by Mark Harris, is free in EPUB format over on Copia.

Book Description
Henry Wiggen, hero of The Southpaw and the best-known fictional baseball player in America, is back again, throwing a baseball "with his arm and his brain and his memory and his bluff for the sake of his pocket and his family." More than a novel about baseball, Bang the Drum Slowly is about the friendship and the lives of a group of men as they each learn that a teammate is dying of cancer.

Bang the Drum Slowly was chosen as one of the top one hundred sports books of all time by Sports Illustrated and appears on numerous other lists of best baseball fiction. In the introduction to this new Bison Books edition Mark Harris discusses the making of the classic 1973 film starring Robert DeNiro, based on his screen adaptation of the book. Also available in Bison Books editions are The Southpaw, It Looked Like For Ever.

Click HERE to get the free book from Copia. Make sure it still says "Your Price: $0.00" before clicking on Buy Now (don't use the cart, it doesn't show up as free). You'll need an account there, if you don't have one already, and the Copia reader to download the books (this is a requirement, no way around it). Once downloaded, though, you can move the books into Adobe ADE or onto your EPUB ereader.