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Amazon Daily | 
 enlarge | Publisher: Amazon.com
Category: Digital Text Feeds
Buy New: $0.00
Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 66
Format: Blog Subscription
Media: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B000QFOD8E
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Commenting on the catchy and trendy, the trivial and tremendous, the Amazon Daily blog highlights the best from the world's largest online retailer. Whether you're interested in the tops in technological toys, the quirkiest gadgets or preeminent foreign films, Amazon Daily offers a plethora of diverse opinions from the editors of Amazon.com. From the perfect holiday dinner to the craziest car accessories, Amazon Daily covers Amazon.com's huge catalog of items, gizmos, books and food. Kindle blogs are fully downloaded onto your Kindle so you can read them even when you're not wirelessly connected. And unlike RSS readers which often only provide headlines, blogs on Kindle contain full text content and images, and are updated wirelessly throughout the day.
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 Sometimes, it isn't delivered July 25, 2008
This is the third time in a month that my Amazon Daily hasn't been delivered to my Kindle. I haven't had an update since July 23, but I've received new material in the form of a new book I ordered and two samples today. Yes, of course I had turned my Kindle net connection on.
What's up? I know the blog has been updated on the website.
This kind of thing makes me reluctant to subscribe to other Kindle blogs, ones that aren't free. This was an experiment and so far, I'm discouraged.
update: The blog is started with a free trial, and at the end of the free trial, updates stop. Since it is a free blog, one would think that it would just continue to be delivered, or at least that there would be a notice to sign up for future copies. But no. However, I tried an experiment and signed up again for the blog and it's delivered every day [almost] now.
 It is broken May 27, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
i have not made any canges and it sent a blank page saying i opten out too much. i did not opt out of any thing.
 Useful, fun, and free... what's not to like? May 5, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Can't imagine any Kindle owner not signing on for this freebie info source. You get light, fast news items, quickie feature pieces, meaty author interviews, and goofy pictures of lava lamps and trendy adult beverages. Fun stuff all. Even the rhapsodic essays about failed, discontinued automobiles like the Gremlin and the Pacer (inexplicably, a regular feature) are growing on me.
And, thankfully, the "tease" factor is kept to a minimum: news items that would work fine if you were reading "Amazon Daily" on your computer but don't work so well if you're reading them on the Kindle (I'm primarily referring to articles that want you to click on an attached video) are mostly held back from the Kindle version of the blog. Frustration averted.
Even if you bought your Kindle just to read e-books and not get news and features (not me... I like everything the Kindle offers), sign up for this free blog generously offered by the Amazon powers-that-be. At the very least, you'll enjoy the many book suggestions "Amazon Daily" will send your way.
Great Bang for Buck March 28, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I usually find one gem of an article every one or two days. To get bang for buck ratio, however, you have to divide by zero. The New York Times news blog is also a gem at 1.99/mo and is updated a few times a day.
 Gosh, I would pay even 5 cents per month February 13, 2008
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
One cent per month? Ok. I bit.
I'm glad I did. Updated several times a day (whenever they feel like blogging) on a wide variety of subjects. The other day an article was about an early 1970s car, and how it influenced later models, etc. We had thoughts on the Grammy Awards, recipes, new devices, book reviews, on and on.
Previously, I would turn the Whispernet (or whatever it is called) off in the morning after receiving my newspapers. Now, I tend to leave it on all day so I can enjoy (or skip, as the case may be) any new Amazon blog.
Why not five stars? Due to the presence, in many articles, of links for you to click: IF you were on a computer. Since the Kindle will not follow those links, they are a bit intrusive at times.
UPDATE: Now its free? Heck, why not.
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