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A minor update to the Kindle Fire , Amazon's color touch-screen multimedia tablet, began rolling out to users today. Version 6.3 adds a few minor features, including a new toolbar for sharing notes and passages from inside a book. Another, more major feature, is called " Book Extras ". Book Extras brings extra written content into the book you are currently reading, including glossaries or biographies. Another new feature extends the rental period for movies. The rental period now starts from when you start playing the movie, as opposed to from when it's downloaded. Textbooks will now retain formatting and page numbers, to make it easy for a Kindle-using student to keep up with the class in regard to textbook page numbers. Personal documents added  to the device will now be synced with Amazon Cloud. Rooters, do not fear. Although the update will revert the rooting process taken, the  xda-developer forums already have rooting instructions for the latest upd

One of the major things that is keeping students around the world paper-free, is the fact that textbooks just aren't available on electronic devices. Well, weren't. Amazon , the creator of the popular Kindle eReader device, announced today that they would be launching a textbook rental service, and claims that students can save up to 80% on their textbooks. " Today, Amazon.com announced the launch of Kindle Textbook Rental ," Said the Amazon.com press release, " Now students can save up to 80% off textbook list prices by renting from the Kindle Store. Tens of thousands of textbooks are available for the 2011 school year from leading textbook publishers such as John Wiley & Sons, Elsevier and Taylor & Francis. Students can find details about the program at www.amazon.com/kindletextbooks " The Kindle textbooks can be rented anywhere from 30 to 360 days, so students really have flexibility. Also, like other Kindle books, these are, as Amazon

It's July 4th. Independence day. You are probably grilling some burgers outside, getting ready for a party, or planning to see some wonderful fireworks tonight. Although that's all good and fun, when it's done, some of you might just want to curl up with a good first-person shooter. Amazon.com, the widely popular online marketplace, wants to help you out. From today, July 4th, 2011, until Saturday, July 9th, Amazon.com is offering a list of games and and gaming accessories which are all available on a buy one get one free basis. The special deal doesn't apply to every video game on Amazon, but there is a nice selection of around 270 games and gaming accessories to choose from. To take advantage of this deal, just put two of the select items in your cart. The deal will be applied at one off the last stages in the checkout process, and will deduct the price of the less expensive item from the total price. This is a great deal, and although not everything in the list of 2