The Kindle Chronicles

The Friday podcast about your Kindle, books, and all things Amazon.

TKC729 Kindle Scribe Colorsoft Release Today 12/10/2025

TKC729 Kindle Scribe Colorsoft Release Today The New Colorsoft, with Sophie and Darlene's sister Gail Links today's release of three new Kindle Scribe tablets, including the amazing Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, which Darlene's sister Gail talked about with me for today's episode. for the 15-minute video I uploaded to YouTube about the Scribe Colorsoft. I focused on what it will mean for my decades-long journaling practice. /episode/index/show/thekindlechronicles/id/39354145

TKC 728 Amazon Devices Event in NYC 10/01/2025

TKC 728 Amazon Devices Event in NYC Panos Panay, SVP Devices & Services at Amazon Links Coverage of today's media event in NYC: by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy at The Verge by Eric Hal Schwartz at Techradar by Julian Chokkattu at Wired and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player. /episode/index/show/thekindlechronicles/id/38418045

TKC 727 Anna Fitzgerald Healy 07/20/2025

TKC 727 Anna Fitzgerald Healy Author of Photo © Chris Doody Links Anna Fitzgerald Healy's by Anna Fitzgerald Healy, reprinted in Dark Matter Magazine by David Foster Wallace for Etiquette for Lovers and Killers (YouTube) by Daphne du Maurier Amazon page for by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy at The Verge - June 10, 2025 To hear my flash briefing on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings, say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, flash.” I also include the Morning Journal audio files on those same days at my , and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player. /episode/index/show/thekindlechronicles/id/37471575

TKC 725 Doug Fleener 03/04/2025

TKC 725 Doug Fleener Author of Links by Doug Fleener Doug’s by Zig Ziglar by Richard Rohr To hear my flash briefing on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings, say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, flash.” I also include the Morning Journal audio files on those same days at my , and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player. /episode/index/show/thekindlechronicles/id/35521700

TKC 724 Meet Alexa+ 02/27/2025

TKC 724 Meet Alexa+ Kindle Chronicles staff at Alexa+ Event in NYC Links by Robert Frost To hear my flash briefing on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings, say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, flash.” I also include the Morning Journal audio files on those same days at my , and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player. /episode/index/show/thekindlechronicles/id/35463590

TKC 723 Deb Miller Landau 02/11/2025

TKC 723 Deb Miller Landau Author of Photo by Matt H. King Links by Deb Miller Landau Deb Miller Landau’s Simon & Schuster (Oprah Daily) - August 28, 2024 YouTube Interviews with Deb Miller Landau: , , To hear my flash briefing on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings, say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, flash.” I also include the Morning Journal audio files on those same days at my , and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player. /episode/index/show/thekindlechronicles/id/35248240

TKC 722 James McQuivey 02/02/2025

TKC 722 James McQuivey Vice President and Principal Analyst, Forrester Research Links James McQuivey’s Forrester Research How to create custom GPT’s () Clone by xAI Humane by Anthropic Apple Vision Pro on headset Palm Pilot () To hear my flash briefing on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings, say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, flash.” I also include the Morning Journal audio files on those same days at my , and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player. /episode/index/show/thekindlechronicles/id/35112370

TKC 721 Sue Erhart 01/05/2025

TKC 721 Sue Erhart Author of Links at Amazon (available for pre-order with release on January 14, 2025) , Sue Erhart’s blog Sue’s Practical Spirituality and with Sue Valeria Teles’s at Fit for Joy (YouTube) - December 26, 2025 Sue’s on the podcast - September 28, 2025 for YouTube version of this interview To hear my flash briefing on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings, say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, flash.” I also include the Morning Journal audio files on those same days at my , and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player. /episode/index/show/thekindlechronicles/id/34728415

TKC 720 Four New Kindles 10/16/2024

TKC 720 Four New Kindles New Kindle Colorsoft, Scribe, Paperwhite 12th Gen, and Basic I will post this special episode of The Kindle Chronicles Tuesday October 16, 2024 at 9 a.m. EDT, when the embargo lifts on yesterday's Amazon briefing here in New York City. Later I will update this page with links. The big news is, at long last, a color Kindle. It is available for pre-order today for $279.99 with delivery October 30th. There is also a new Kindle Scribe, available for pre-order today for $399.99 with delivery December 4th. It has some cool new annotation features and Generative AI smarts. The "all-new" Paperwhite and basic Kindle are available for shipment today. Those changes are incremental but not trivial. I'm glad to see Amazon's new head of devices and services, Panos Panay, is all in for the Kindle! /episode/index/show/thekindlechronicles/id/33480767

TKC 719 Austin Masterson 07/27/2024

TKC 719 Austin Masterson Technical Advisor for Amazon’s Worldwide Prime organization Links at Len’s Newsletter on Substack If you’d like brief updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 10 a.m. Eastern Time. /episode/index/show/thekindlechronicles/id/32311767

TKC 718 Thought Partner at SXSW 03/12/2024

TKC 718 Thought Partner at SXSW In this special episode of The Kindle Chronicles, my guest is ChatGPT. I had no idea I could use OpenAI's revolutionary AI assistant as a Thought Partner. That's how Peter Deng, OpenAI's head of ChatGPT uses the tool he leads. So, on a tight deadline this morning at the Hampton Inn Capitol/University, I put together an "interview" with ChatGPT and recorded it. I left the gaps where my Thought Partner (TP) was thinking, illustrated on my iPhone as a cloud pulsing, so you will hear how long TP took to come up with pretty amazing answers. SXSW is going to make Peter's talk available on demand, but it's not up yet. I highly recommend that you watch it if you get the chance. He discusses safety issues, OpenAI's chaotic leadership crisis last year, and many other topics. John Constine of SignalFire, a venture capital firm, did an outstanding job peppering Deng with questions and then summarizing the entire one-hour conversation at the end. I took notes in a Substack draft post using Vision Pro during the keynote. I plan to tidy them up and send them out, perhaps during my layover at DFW. This was my best South By ever, after nearly 15 years of covering the event. I hope you enjoy the show! /episode/index/show/thekindlechronicles/id/30338158

TKC 717 Nyckle Sijtsma 03/01/2024

TKC 717 Nyckle Sijtsma At left, Founder of I spoke by Zoom today with Nyckle Sijtsma in Delft, Netherlands, about his inspiring design company. I discovered New Things via an Instagram ad for the Memo White Board, a product I truly love. You will hear all about it in this conversation, along with Nyckle's personal mission to "help people think clearly." Links: The , $69 My demonstrating the Memo - February 27, 2024 of this interview to open and save the audio file for this episode. /episode/index/show/thekindlechronicles/id/30193008

TKC 716 Matt Gallagher 02/25/2024

TKC 716 Matt Gallagher Author of I spoke with Matt Gallagher by Zoom on February 8, 2024, in advance of the release of his new novel, which was released by Simon & Schuster on February 20. It's a powerful story set in Ukraine at the start of a war that continues into its third year. Highly recommended! /episode/index/show/thekindlechronicles/id/30096618

TKC 715 Dwight Garner 11/04/2023

TKC 715 Dwight Garner Author of Photo by Richard Bowditch of the interview Links (YouTube) by Dwight Garner (2020) Dwight Garner’s book reviews in by Edmund Wilson by Jennifer Reese at The New York Times Book Review - October 24, 2023 Film reviews in by Anthony Lane Politics columns by in at Amazon.com by Dwight Garner at The New York Times - September 23, 2023 by Jayne Anne Phillips (Buy This Book!) Joni Mitchell - at YouTube Joni Mitchell Court and Spark album and (YouTube) Books at Amazon.com by , and by Dwight Garner at The New York Times - July 30, 2015 by Margaretta Barton Colt (not available on Kindle) published in National Review Books at Amazon.com by the poets , , , and by Adam Begley at the Times Literary Supplement (TLS) - November 3, 2023 If you’d like brief updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 10 a.m. Eastern Time. and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player. /episode/index/show/thekindlechronicles/id/28515851

TKC 714 Neil deGrasse Tyson 10/19/2023

TKC 714 Neil deGrasse Tyson Author of Links Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Neil deGrasse Tyson with Steven Colbert (2023) Carl Sagan on with Johnny Carson - March 2, 1978 (YouTube) a documentary scheduled for release in November, with Neil deGrasse Tyson as Executive Director If you’d like brief updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 10 a.m. Eastern Time. and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player. /episode/index/show/thekindlechronicles/id/28361918

TKC 713 Neil deGrasse Tyson Interview Lost in a Black Hole 10/18/2023

TKC 713 Neil deGrasse Tyson Interview Lost in a Black Hole Podcaster doing back flip into a black hole after interviewing Neil deGrasse Tyson, author of Links Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Neil deGrasse Tyson with Steven Colbert (2023) Carl Sagan on with Johnny Carson - March 2, 1978 (YouTube) Note: To find out what really happened to the lost interview, be sure to download the NEXT episode of The Kindle Chronicles, coming to the nets later tonight. If you’d like brief updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 10 a.m. Eastern Time. and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player. (Graphic for this episode created by Len Edgerly with OpenAI's DALL-E 2) /episode/index/show/thekindlechronicles/id/28360022

TKC 712 Nick Fuller Googins 10/04/2023

TKC 712 Nick Fuller Googins Author of Links Nick Fuller Googins’s in Biddeford, Maine , an imprint of Simon & Schuster Rutgers Newark , Greenland (Wikipedia) by Lee Harris at ABC News - June 27, 2018 by Geoff Dembicki at CDP - July 10, 2017 If you’d like brief updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, flash briefing.” I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 10 a.m. Eastern Time. and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player. /episode/index/show/thekindlechronicles/id/28227302

TKC 711 Amazon New Products Event 09/22/2023

TKC 711 Amazon New Products Event At the closing reception yesterday at HQ2 Links of Amazon’s New Products Event (YouTube) at AboutAmazon.com - September 20, 2023 of Forrester Research by Daniel Rausch at AboutAmazon.com - September 20, 2023 by Tomas Kellner at AboutAmazon.com - December 2, 2022 If you’d like brief updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my flash briefing. tFrom your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 8 a.m. Eastern Time. and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player. /episode/index/show/thekindlechronicles/id/28110503

TKC 710 Andrew Ridker 07/20/2023

TKC 710 Andrew Ridker Author of Photo © George Baier Links Andrew Ridker's New York Times of Hope. Interview with Andrew on Boston by Andrew Ridker by Lee Cole by Ali Smith My flash briefing for Alexa devices and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player. /episode/index/show/thekindlechronicles/id/27525144

TKC 709 Another Scribe Update 05/22/2023

TKC 709 Another Scribe Update Kindle Scribe, next to photo of my father for download link for new update /episode/index/show/thekindlechronicles/id/26915157

TKC 708 Kevin Kelly 05/02/2023

TKC 708 Kevin Kelly Author of Links Kevin Kelly’s newsletter - Kevin Kelly TED talk (YouTube) by Kevin Kelly AI Image Generators: , , and Kevin Kelly on ### If you’d like brief updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my flash briefing. tFrom your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 8 a.m. Eastern Time. and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player. /episode/index/show/thekindlechronicles/id/26720031

TKC 707 Scribe Update 04/24/2023

TKC 707 Scribe Update A Rainy Day on Sanibel Island by Christian de Looper at AboutAmazon.com for the latest Kindle Scribe software update, 16.1.13. for 16.1.13 podcast for audio file of this episode /episode/index/show/thekindlechronicles/id/26635731

TKC 706 Kindle Scribe Update 02/27/2023

TKC 706 Kindle Scribe Update Sample new brush tools for Scribe on today's Kindle Scribe update at Amazon.com at Amazon.com for Kindle Scribe software update 5.16.1.2 to download audio file /episode/index/show/thekindlechronicles/id/26061162

TKC 705 Chris Bailey 02/04/2023

TKC 705 Chris Bailey Author of Links of this interview with Chris Bailey - Audible Version, narrated by the author by Chris Bailey (An Audible Original, 2021) by Chris Bailey (2016) by Chris Bailey (2018) and by Ajahn Brahm - March 13, 2021 - University of Minnesota Extension Other YouTube interviews with Chis Bailey by and . ### If you’d like brief updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my flash briefing. tFrom your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 8 a.m. Eastern Time. and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player. /episode/index/show/thekindlechronicles/id/25831242

TKC 704 James and the Scribe 01/24/2023

TKC 704 James and the Scribe My Grandson showing chemistry notes on his Kindle Scribe Links at Amazon.com by Chris Bailey - YouTube video by Len Edgerly by A. G. Riddle - available for pre-order with delivery March 2, 2023 If you’d like brief updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 8 a.m. Eastern Time. is my new podcast about the rebuilding of Sanibel Island after the devastation of Hurricane Ian. and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player. /episode/index/show/thekindlechronicles/id/25717236

TKC 703 Why I Love the Kindle Scribe 01/10/2023

TKC 703 Why I Love the Kindle Scribe Me and My Scribe Links for sale at discounted prices by Chris Bailey by A. G. Riddle - available for pre-order with shipment March 2, 2023 If you’d like brief updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 8 a.m. Eastern Time. Coming soon: , my new podcast about the rebuilding of Sanibel Island after the devastation of Hurricane Ian. Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player. /episode/index/show/thekindlechronicles/id/25565490

TKC 702 Kindle Scribe Review 11/30/2022

TKC 702 Kindle Scribe Review Me and My Kindle Scribe to order Kindle Scribe! by Caleb Crain Note: I plan to upload a video of this episode of the podcast, recorded while I was creating the podcast audio. If I succeed, you will be able to find it in my . Next week, from Sanibel FL, I plan to create a video comparison of the Kindle Scribe, , , and by Onyx. ### If you’d like brief updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my flash briefing. tFrom your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 8 a.m. Eastern Time. and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player. /episode/index/show/thekindlechronicles/id/25174863

TKC 701 Charles Kronbach 11/19/2022

TKC 701 Charles Kronbach Amazon Vice President - World Wide Publishing Links to order Kindle Scribe! Amazon press release introducing Books by by A. G. Riddle Amazon by Colleen Hoover Books by by David Aguilar by Gregory David Roberts by Jonathan Franzen ### If you’d like brief updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my flash briefing. tFrom your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 8 a.m. Eastern Time. and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player. /episode/index/show/thekindlechronicles/id/25068225

TKC 700 Day 1 in Seattle 11/12/2022

TKC 700 Day 1 in Seattle Kevin Keith, VP of Amazon Devices, shows me a Kindle Scribe Links to order Kindle Scribe! Amazon press releases introducing , , and four new Echo devices plus upgrades to Echo Studio Audio. at Amazon.com If you’d like brief updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my flash briefing. tFrom your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 8 a.m. Eastern Time. and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player. /episode/index/show/thekindlechronicles/id/24985944

TKC 699 Darlene's Next Kindle? 11/07/2022

TKC 699 Darlene's Next Kindle? Darlene and Sophie compare three Kindle models to order Kindle Scribe or to order the new basic Kindle. Follow the rebuilding efforts on Sanibel Island at ### If you’d like brief updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my flash briefing. tFrom your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 8 a.m. Eastern Time. Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player. /episode/index/show/thekindlechronicles/id/24936342

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