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Amazon has finally listened to their customers, Amazon Kindle is just an amazing and useful device; actually I consider it to be the most useful gadget ever made.

The new features are awesome, especially the Collections & PDF Zoom; however the other new features like Twitter & Facebook and Popular highlights may push them to charge for wireless connectivity, people are just crazy when it comes to social networking.

The features included in this update are:

• Collections

I love this feature because I have about 103 books of different flavour. Technical, Political, Textbooks, Travel, References and Novels! one thing I hated about the previous version is that I had jump from page into another to get the book I wanted to read. Now, I can just sort them into Collections and make my life easier, especially when my Kindle library is growing faster than I thought as I’m reading more now.

• Facebook & Twitter Posts

I don’t see the use of such feature in a Reading device, albeit I’m sure many people will just love it; but let’s see, maybe I would want to share a quote on twitter or facebook.

• Password Protection

I purely use Kindle for reading books and never loaded any personal document into it but this is definitely a good addition especially to those who have personal documents on Kindle
Password protect your Kindle when you’re not using it

• Popular Highlights

This is an interesting and useful one, it may get your attention to a page you skipped or something from different perspective but all depends on the user generated content, hopefully we will have smart users.

• PDF Pan and Zoom

Zoom into PDFs and pan around to easily view small print and detailed tables or graphics

• More Font Sizes & Improved Clarity

Enjoy two new larger font sizes and sharper fonts for an even more comfortable reading experience

Enough talking and let me now enjoy my newly updated Kindle 2.

Tags: Kindle, Amazon, social networks, new features

Big companies like Amazon, Apple and Sony are fighting for the best device to deliver digital books and I’m loving that as it will only increase get consumer more features for less but yet content is everything I care about.

I’m a book geek, I don’t mind reading on iPhone, my Mac Book or buy an eReader as long as I can get the content I’m interested in.

Kindle is more than a device

Kindle seems to have advantage over any current competitor or even the rumored one, Apple tablet. The advantages as I see them are in the large collection of books that amazon have plus the new publishers program, add to that the Soft Kindle on Windows, iPhone and Mac (Coming soon). Basically you should look at Kindle as a service accessible everywhere unlike any other devices that are just devices.

We don’t know much about the rumored Apple tablet but the competition would be to get more out of those who fancy getting an eReader rather than using the Soft ones.

I like the idea of getting a device but I also want the luxarious ability to resume whatever I started reading using the eReader on my MacBook too, would that be offered by the rumored Apple tablet or Amazon Kindle when they release the soft Kindle for Mac?

Another thing, I would love to see integration between Questia.com and Kindle or Apple tablet. It’s going to be sad to buy Kindle or Apple tablet without being able to access my favorite library on Questia.

The world’s largest online collection of complete books, journals and articles, searchable by word, phrase, title, author, or subject.

Hope the war will end soon for the consumer benefit and hope to see Questia part of the benefits.

Tags: amazon kindle, apple tablet, macbook, consumer benefit, favorite library, ereader, mac book, digital books, iphone, collection of books, competitor, publishers, sony, magazine, newspaper, journals

1. I’m not sure why people queue to buy iPhone but not to buy Kindle and I’m not sure why Kindle cannot be sold or shipped to anyone outside U.S
2. Eagle eye is scary to be true
3. Berkeley classes podcasts are just amazing, are there any other university doing the same?
4. We are preparing for Ubuntu Week at Jordan University, special thanks to IEEE Jordan for the invitation
5. Ubuntu Podcast is getting better
6. There is no proven scientific way to run away from politics while in Middle East
7. Philosophy & Political books are the best
8. Finally we have 8MB ADSL in Jordan
9. Budgeting my budget to renew my ACM, PHP|Arch, PyMag and hoping for Economist subscription plus allocating $500 for books
10. I believe I’m back

Tags: jordan university, iphone, eagle eye, podcast, berkeley, philosophy, Ubuntu Week, IEEE, kindle, amazon, books, iphone

I have always been jealous of RoR but I did not to switch and kill my passion to PHP at the same time there was no PHP framework that satisfy my needs to RAD so I stopped looking until recently I was introduce to Symfony Framework but didn’t had the time to dig much into it as I’m not full time programmer anymore but I kept an eye on it and kept digging it as a Todo.

Couple of days ago I got The Definitive Guide to Symfony and unlike many other technical books it’s authored by the author of the framework and the framework documenter which is a great plus when buying a technical book.

If you are not used to MVC frameworks then you should understand that learning curve in Symfony is a pain that worth going through and it will heal any pain you used to get when developing without a framework, nevertheless the guide book makes it way easier, the book is well written in an easy language

I will keep you update as I’m reading the book.

Tags: time programmer, learning curve, easy language, ror, definitive guide, technical books, couple of days, full time, passion, symfony

Don’t ever delay your orders; there is no mean of grouping your packages to save shipping cost especially if something like this would happen

Now, I’m not going to order that book.

Tags: Amazon, order, price, increased , shipping cost, amazon