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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

In a recent press event, Amazon , the makers of the popular Kindle e-reading device, announced the next generation of Kindle devices. Kindle : The good old Kindle we all know and love, right? Wrong. Although it keeps the simple, a single term name, the new Kindle is often a e tremely a variety of looking device. From the exact same 6 inch screen size as its predecessor, the new Kindle weighs 30% lighter (6 ounces), probably as a result of the most noticeable difference: the new Kindle has no keyboard. Instead of while using keyboard, 1 navigates the device using the new 5 way controller, along with four other little buttons. The New Kindle Download books over Wi-Fi (no 3G choice this time around), and read them wherever you go, with as much as a month of battery life on the single charge. Also, as Amazon is promotion strongly, the Kindle can also be utilized even in bright sunlight, because of its black and white e-ink display. The most compelling aspect with the new Kin

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