Amazon Daily [Kindle Edition]

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• Publisher: Amazon.com
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• ASIN: B000QFOD8E
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (55 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #144 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Free in Kindle Store)
  • #1 in Kindle Store > Kindle Blogs > Arts & Entertainment

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

94 of 98 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Useful, fun, and free... what's not to like?, May 5, 2008

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Joseph P. Menta, Jr. (Philadelphia, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Amazon Daily (Kindle Edition)

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.

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.

Note: Amazon frequently updates the presentation and functionality of Kindle blogs and periodicals, so as this review gets older, it may no longer accurately describe the current version of this product.

76 of 79 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars What is with the bulleted lists?, December 24, 2007

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Simulacra "Gnothi Seauton" (Residence: The Globe, for now) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Amazon Daily (Kindle Edition)

I am pretty pleased with the Amazon daily so far. I do not know if I will change my mind in the future. Below are some details:

Pro #1: It has a post called Reviewing the Reviewers. In this post, snapshots of book reviews from the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, etc, are included. Con #1: The book names are linked to the item detail pages on Amazon, which does not make sense with the Kindle browser, since you have to go through pages of navigation items first. I wonder why they did not link the book names to relevant Kindle store pages.

Pro #2: Pictures included with certain posts are pretty clear. Con #2: Sometimes, on a certain page, you only see a picture, no text at all. I don't think the pictures should be emphasized so much, unless they are crucial for the posts.

Pro #3: Cooking recipes are included in some posts.
Con #3: (This is the most important one for me!) All bulleted and numbered lists are MESSED UP! More often than not, you will either see bullets with no content, or numbered lists that go 1, 2, 3, 6, 10, 12. I am sure this is due to a conversion problem from HTML to .azw, but I am sure it can be easily fixed as well.

37 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Gosh, I would pay even 5 cents per month, February 13, 2008

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Legalsea (Fort Worth, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Amazon Daily (Kindle Edition)

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.