UPDATE 25 November 2011: The Kindle Fire and new Kindles are out.

• Here is an unboxing video of the new Kindle Fire
• Here is an overview of the latest Kindles available
• Here is a guide for understanding what is an ereader and what is a Kindle

UPDATE 28 September 2011

New Kindles and a Kindle tablet …

Some of you may remember the infamous Cone of Silence from the Get Smart comedy series made in the 1960s. In the show, the cone of silence was meant to provide a, well, cone of silence around two people who wanted to have a private conversation, like when discussing top secret information, so that …

I started reading The Road soon after I picked it up at Fountain Bookstore while waiting for some cousins to arrive for dinner at a local restaurant, and I really had a hard time putting it down.

Cormac McCarthy has a real skill at describing nature, especially desolate nature. And so this book, …