Quawkle

I have yet to write a review on the Kindle 2 from Amazon which I picked up over a month ago while vacation in Florida. My preview in a word – “Excellent!” I will save an extended review for later once I locate where I left my mind.

I recently started reading the book, Kindle 2 for Dummies (on my Kindle 2 of course) and the author pointed me to a service called KindleFeeder. I tried it out for a few days and eventually signed up for the premium account which allows me some bonus features. KindleFeeder allows you to assign a number of Web sites or blogs and by way of RSS feeds, create your own feed list. Then you can create a daily schedule (once a day for the free account) and enter your Kindle’s email address. Then each day at the assigned by you time, a Kindle document will automatically appear on your Kindle with the blog content you setup in your feed. You can choose for the document to contain navigation helps or KindleFeeder allows you to assign a Zen mode that gives you the content post after post.

One of the reasons I opted for the premium account was the flexibility it offers. A free account limits you to 12 feeds in your list but the premium allows a theoretic unlimited number. In addition, the premium account includes a link in the Kindle document which when clicked on generates another queued and updated transmission of new content. Typically my deliveries automatically occur at 5:00 a.m. CDT. Sometimes when reading at night, I like to see any new content available in my list. Rather than having to go to a computer and surf to the KindleFeeder site, I can simply click the link in my KindleFeeder document (provided I haven’t already deleted it from the Kindle) and an updated document of my feeds arrives automatically on my Kindle within minutes.

I am a big RSS newsreader fan. I use NewNewsWire on my Macs and FeedDemon on my PCs. Not every blog feed translate well to the Kindle. Feeds that only provide summary posts with a link to the full post would force you to use the web browser on the Kindle which is turtle slow. However, the blogs that feature full content with each post are great for reading on the Kindle and I can’t stress enough how much I prefer holding a book-like device for reading rather than my computer (even if it is the Dell Mini9 netbook).

If you are searching for material to read on your Kindle beside the books available from Amazon, check out KindleFeeder.