AMAZON PRIME DAY MAY BE OVER, BUT YOU CAN STILL SCORE THOSE GREAT DEALS

Prime Day, Amazon’s huge yearly sales event, has come to a close. However, we’ve picked some of the best Amazon Prime Day deals that are still going on.

The company’s ongoing effort to compete with other annual sales has largely been successful, with last year’s Prime Day becoming Amazon’s biggest retail day yet and netting more worldwide product sales than Black Friday.

Though you don’t have to be a Prime member to enjoy these ongoing deals, now’s the perfect time to sign up and enjoy the benefits.

More MOBI, fewer problems: here’s how to get EPUB books on your Kindle

Ebook readers are a nice tool for people who like to do a lot of reading on the go, and Amazon’s various Kindles are among the best. Although the devices provide good performance in an attractive frame, Kindles do have one notable drawback — they do not support the EPUB format. For those unaware, EPUB is one of the most common ebook formats. It’s open-source and free to use, and as such, is supported by most ebook readers aside from the Kindle. EPUB is also a popular format for free ebooks, such as the public domain texts on sites like Project Gutenberg. As such, Kindle users may be miffed to learn they can’t read them.

Save a load of cash with our one-click guide to the best Amazon Prime Day deals

Because one day a year celebrating unfettered consumerism isn’t enough, Amazon is once again seeking to dethrone Black Friday with its own sales extravaganza: Prime Day. Available only to people with Amazon Prime memberships, the second annual Prime Day promises to be an unparalleled 24 hours of sales. Not only does Amazon promise “more sales than Black Friday,” but the event takes place entirely online, meaning you’re highly unlikely to end up flattened by frenzied shoppers.

To aid you in your quest for savings, we’ve compiled a list of the offerings that are set to go on sale. If you’ve been saving for a chance to splurge on tech, we’ve got you covered. The madness will begin at 12:01 am PT, July 12. In the days leading up to Prime Day, however, Amazon is offering sets of themed deals to get you in the money-spendin’ mood. We’ll have the tech-centric deals listed here — or the best of them, anyway — so be sure to check back daily for updated sales.

The Amazon Echo listens to anyone – even NPR

I’ve had the repeated pleasure of meeting the Boston Globe’s Hiawatha Bray — he writes his Tech Lab column for the newspaper — and have appreciated his “big picture” stories on innovation. He gets into the nitty gritty, too: last time I saw him on my way home, he was toting a Moto X for review.

It’s with that cred that NPR’s Rachel Martin invited Bray for a segment a couple weeks ago on Weekend Edition Sunday about the Amazon Echo and the company’s voice-powered assistant, Alexa.