The Trouble with Kindle Fire

Something like five posts ago, and more than a year and a half ago, I said I would get both me and my (now) nine year old son a Google Nexus 7 tablet.

Well I did. About eight moths ago. While no one and no thing in this world is perfect, I am rather pleased with it and so is my son.

Thing is, I made this decision after I already owned the (original) kindle fire tablet. Actually it was an OK tablet (I gave it to my mom a while ago), as far as reading books on kindle is concerned. It even worked sort of OK as a web browser, except Hebrew websites sometimes got partly written backwards. Arabic websites were plain terrible (I do try reading them from time to time), which is odd because you figure if Hebrew works (mostly) OK, so should Arabic  ...but no.

What was absolutely ludicrous were the apps. Turns out I could not install any apps, even free ones, unless I had a credit card with a valid US address. As far as I can tell this is still the case.

Lucky for me there were these two days when I could, so I did install some free apps...

My niece thanks me to this very day...

So if you plan on using a kindle fire outside the US for any prolonged period of time, consider some other tablet...

Intermission- My Book on Kindle

I published my first book on Amazon a bit more than two years ago. So far it's the only book I published there, but I hope to publish more in the next few years (my Hebrew publishing works faster, thanks for asking).
The book is not perfect. Actually it's twice not perfect:
First, because it's my first book, that was published in Hebrew back in 2007. I didn't exactly know what I was doing back then.
Second, because the translation is far from perfect. I translated it myself, and it's the first book I translated, so, again, not perfect...
Nonetheless, it is a cute book, I think.
It used to be that if you published via Kindle Direct Publishing, you could give away your book for free, for five days every quarter. According to Amazon something like 200 people got my book for free this way in the past two years.
Less people actually paid for it, of course.
Nowadays I cannot give it for free, but I can give it for a discounted price, and I am starting tomorrow, for five days.

So you can get your copy over here:

http://www.amazon.com/Keter-Malchut-Uri-Meir-ebook/dp/B008GTT5SU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1405955105&sr=8-1&keywords=keter+malchut

Hope You enjoy it...

It Has Been a While

I have not written in this blog for more than a year and a half now.

I actually have a good excuse for that - i became a teacher, so at first there was a lot of studying to do, and later there was a lot of teaching to do.

So in the near future I plan to wrap up this series about tech companies that has dragged beyond its intended scope (in time, if not in actual posts...)

Later a plan to talk here, just as I do on my Hebrew blog, mainly about my job as a teacher, but in a general detached kind of way. You'll see...

Stay tuned.