Morning Coffee – 1 August 2021

by Nate Hoffelder

After a decade of running The Digital Reader, Nate is a veteran web publisher with experience in design, maintenance, recovery, and troubleshooting. What little he doesn't know, he can learn.

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Morning Coffee

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August 1, 2021

Here are a few stories to read this morning.

Time spent reading rose by 21% in the second half of 2021.
BookFunnel is now letting you brand your ebook download pages with your domain.
After 14 years, Amazon is shutting down the Kindle’s 3G connectivity in December.
It would seem mall Santas spend the off-season in Key West as Ernest Hemingway look-alikes.
Amazon may have cleaned the fake reviews out of the Kindle Store but Goodreads has been inundated.
The US govt has formally seized Hobby Lobby’s stolen Epic of Gilgamesh tablet.
Google has improved support in Google Docs for Braille devices.
Amazon now lets you add custom content to your book details pages on its retail sites.

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