The Kindle Chronicles

Author of Etiquette for Lovers and Killers Photo © Chris Doody Links Anna Fitzgerald Healy's website The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette: 50th Anniversary Edition "The Vampire Facial" by Anna Fitzgerald Healy, reprinted in Dark Matter Magazine Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace Audiobook preview for Etiquette for Lovers and Killers (YouTube) Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Wood Island Lighthouse Amazon page for Alexa+ "More Than a Million People Now Have Alexa Plus" by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy at The Verge - June 10, 2025 To hear my Morning Journal 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 Substack Newsletter, Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Author of The Day Makes the Year Links The Day Makes the Year (Makes a Life): Transform Your Work and Life with One-Day Success by Doug Fleener Doug’s web site See You at the Top: 25th Anniversary Edition by Zig Ziglar The Tears of Things: Prophetic Wisdom for an Age of Outrage by Richard Rohr To hear my Morning Journal 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 Substack Newsletter, Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Kindle Chronicles staff at Alexa+ Event in NYC Links Alexa+ The Outsiders “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost Meet the New Alexa To hear my Morning Journal 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 Substack Newsletter, Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Author of A Devil Went Down to Georgia Photo by Matt H. King Links A Devil Went Down to Georgia: Race, Power, Privilege, and the Murder of Lita McClinton by Deb Miller Landau Deb Miller Landau’s web site Simon & Schuster page “29 Best True Crime Books That’ll Make You Want to Sleep with the Lights on” (Oprah Daily) - August 28, 2024 YouTube Interviews with Deb Miller Landau: KATU Lifestyle, Georgia Center for the Book, Once Upon a Crime Podcast To hear my Morning Journal 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 Substack Newsletter, Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Vice President and Principal Analyst, Forrester Research Links James McQuivey’s Forrester Research page ChatGPT How to create custom GPT’s (YouTube) Delphi AI Clone Grok by xAI NotebookLM Humane AI Pin Rabbit R1 Claude by Anthropic Apple Vision Pro Apple Vision Pro on eBay Meta Quest 3 headset Palm Pilot (Wikipedia) To hear my Morning Journal 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 Substack Newsletter, Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Author of Lose Your Critic for Good: A Step-by-Step Process for Reclaiming Your Spirit Links Lose Your Critic for Good at Amazon (available for pre-order with release on January 14, 2025) Practical Spirituality, Sue Erhart’s blog Sue’s Practical Spirituality Podcast and Courses 1:1 Coaching with Sue Valeria Teles’s interview with Sue at Fit for Joy (YouTube) - December 26, 2025 Sue’s interview with Lacey Jones on the Elevate the Individual podcast - September 28, 2025 Click here for YouTube version of this interview To hear my Morning Journal 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 Substack Newsletter, Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

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!

Technical Advisor for Amazon’s Worldwide Prime organization Links Amazon First Reads Prime Reading Amazon Pharmacy Rx Pass Amazon Photos Rufus “A Shopper’s Best Friend? Meet Rufus, Amazon’s New AI Helper” at Len’s Newsletter on Substack If you’d like brief updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal 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.

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!

At left, Founder of New Things Lab 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 Memo White Board, $69 My YouTube video demonstrating the Memo - February 27, 2024 YouTube video of this interview Right-click here to open and save the audio file for this episode.

Author of Daybreak: A Novel 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!

Author of Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading Photo by Richard Bowditch YouTube video of the interview Links “Inside the NYT Book Review: Pamela Paul & Dwight Garner” (YouTube) Garner’s Quotations: A Modern Miscellany by Dwight Garner (2020) Dwight Garner’s book reviews in The New York Times To the Finland Station: A Study in the Acting and Writing of History (FSG) Classics by Edmund Wilson “A Book Critic as Wild for Food as He Is for Literature” by Jennifer Reese at The New York Times Book Review - October 24, 2023 Film reviews in The New Yorker by Anthony Lane Politics columns by Maureen Dowd in The New York Times Books by Cree LeFavour at Amazon.com “Jayne Anne Phillips Finds Anguish and Asylum in Civil War America” by Dwight Garner at The New York Times - September 23, 2023 Machine Dreams by Jayne Anne Phillips (Buy This Book!) Joni Mitchell - Blue (Full Album) at YouTube Joni Mitchell Court and Spark album Part 1 and Part 2 (YouTube) Books at Amazon.com by Sheila Heti, Otessa Moshfegh and Catherine Lacey “Review: ‘Martial Bliss,’ a Loving Memoir About a Bookstore for Military Buffs” by Dwight Garner at The New York Times - July 30, 2015 Martial Bliss: The Story of The Military Bookman by Margaretta Barton Colt (not available on Kindle) Columns by William F. Buckley Jr. published in National Review Kindle Scribe Books at Amazon.com by the poets Kay Ryan, August Kleinzahler, Louise Glück, and James Fenton “Hunger games: A New York critic’s gluttony for books and food” 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 Morning Journal 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. Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Author of To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery Links Neil deGrasse Tyson’s website Neil deGrasse Tyson on The Late Show with Steven Colbert (2023) Carl Sagan on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson - March 2, 1978 (YouTube) StarTalk Media Network Hayden Planetarium “Shot in the Arm,” 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 Morning Journal 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. Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Podcaster doing back flip into a black hole after interviewing Neil deGrasse Tyson, author of To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery Links Neil deGrasse Tyson’s website Neil deGrasse Tyson on The Late Show with Steven Colbert (2023) Carl Sagan on The Tonight Show 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 Morning Journal 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. Right-click here 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)

Author of The Great Transition Links Nick Fuller Googins’s web site Elements Books Coffee Beer in Biddeford, Maine Alice Eliot Dark Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Rutgers Newark MFA in Creative Writing Nuuk, Greenland Green New Deal (Wikipedia) “In historic upset, 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez unseats 4th ranking House Democrat Joe Crowley” by Lee Harris at ABC News - June 27, 2018 The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change by Geoff Dembicki “New report shows just 100 companies are source of over 70% of emissions” at CDP - July 10, 2017 If you’d like brief updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal 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. Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

At the closing reception yesterday at HQ2 Links Full video of Amazon’s New Products Event (YouTube) Overview of Amazon new devices and features at AboutAmazon.com - September 20, 2023 James McQuivey of Forrester Research “Previewing the future of Alexa” by Daniel Rausch at AboutAmazon.com - September 20, 2023 "Meet Len Edgerly, Kindle superfan and host of the popular Kindle Chronicles podcast" 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 Morning Journal 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.

Author of Hope: A Novel Photo © George Baier Links Andrew Ridker's website New York Times review of Hope. Interview with Andrew on WGBH Radio Boston The Altruists by Andrew Ridker Groundskeeping: A Novel by Lee Cole Seasonal Quartet by Ali Smith My Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa devices Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Kindle Scribe, next to photo of my father Click here for download link for new update

Author of Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier Links Kevin Kelly’s website Recomendo newsletter “The Future Will be Shaped by Optimists” - Kevin Kelly TED talk (YouTube) Vanishing Asia: Three Volume Set: West, Central and East by Kevin Kelly AI Image Generators: DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion Kevin Kelly on Twitter ### If you’d like brief updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal 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.

A Rainy Day on Sanibel Island "4 new features to try out on your Kindle Scribe" by Christian de Looper at AboutAmazon.com Click here for the latest Kindle Scribe software update, 16.1.13. Release Notes for 16.1.13 Sanibel Journal podcast Click here for audio file of this episode