News - Amazon announces a record holiday season for the Kindle, and touts the Kindle Direct Publishing success of Darcie Chan. 2) M-Edge Accessories charges Amazon with "unlawful corporate bullying" in a lawsuit filed this week. Nate Hoffelder sees a veiled response to the lawsuit in Amazon's year-end press release. Tech Tip - Stephen S recommends SanDisk Memory Zone, a free app available at Amazon's Appstore for Android, as a way to see which files are taking up the most space on your Kindle Fire. Other handy free apps Stephen mentions are Quick System Info Pro, Gemini App Manager, File Expert, ES File Explorer, and AndroXPlorer. Tom Semple offers a smart tip for preventing unintentional navigation or user-interface activity if your Kindle Touch's power button gets turned on by mistake in a pocket or a purse. Hint: It's about a password. Interview (starts at 11:50) - My wife Darlene gives her first impressions of the Kindle Touch and explains why she hates the Fire. Content - Books: Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes; Queen Elizabeth's Christmas Speeches, 1952-2010 (click here for Forbes story); a free preview of Breaking the Page: Transforming Books and the Reading Experience by Peter Meyers; and Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander and the rest of his Aubrey-Maturin series (via Katie Loss who hopes to zoom Kindle copies of the books to her son, Eric Loss, during his circumnavigation of the globe). Video: Arrested Development and The Wire. Music: Amazon's 100-song playlist sampling  "Outstanding 2011 Albums You Might Have Missed" led me to purchase Delicate Steve's Wondervision album for $5. Apps: Solitaire and Bejeweled 2. Next Week's Guest: Dr. Eric McLuhan, son of the late renowned media theorist Marshall McLuhan and an internationally known lecturer and author on communications and media in his own right. Next Google Plus TKC Hangout: Wednesday, January 4 at 3 p.m. Mountain Time. If you are not yet in my TKC hangout circle, please email me at PodChronicles at Gmail Dot Com with the URL of your G+ profile page.