One of my complaints with the first Kindle was that there was no way to quickly tweet book excerpts. The new Kindle lets you tweet as you read, of course, but it's a cumbersome process. How many key combinations does it take to send a single tweet?!
Process aside, I'm very disappointed with the way Amazon handles the excerpts you want to point to. For example, I'm reading Jane Leavy's terrific biography of Mickey Mantle called The Last Boy. I came across a cool link in the book pointing to a simulation of a tape-measure home run Mantle hit at Yankee Stadium in 1963 (go here and click on mantle_hr_63 to see it yourself). Here's the result of tweeting the excerpt...
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Process aside, I'm very disappointed with the way Amazon handles the excerpts you want to point to. For example, I'm reading Jane Leavy's terrific biography of Mickey Mantle called The Last Boy. I came across a cool link in the book pointing to a simulation of a tape-measure home run Mantle hit at Yankee Stadium in 1963 (go here and click on mantle_hr_63 to see it yourself). Here's the result of tweeting the excerpt...
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