The Interwebs' series of tubes is aflutter today after Amazon sent out invitations for a special event it's holding in New York on Sept. 28.

Could this be the long-awaited official unveil of Amazon's formerly unicorn-ish tablet?

That's the leading theory being floated by the denizens of the Web at this point, especially after Web site TechCrunch — no relation to the cereal-hawking Captain — reported earlier that it spied an actual version of the tablet. It even produced several specifics and a price tag of $250, which would be an attractive proposition given how tablets typically cost more than $400. The price would also price it competitively with the Nook Color, which overtook the Kindle in e-reader sales thanks in part to folks using it as an Android tablet. (Rumors peg Amazon's tablet to be Android-powered as well, which makes sense given the resources the company has dedicated to its Android Appstore.)

Add the fact that Hewlett-Packard pretty much commanded its webOS TouchPad to commit hara kiri and the market could certainly use another alternative for folks who can't quite commit to an iPad.

So will they or won't they? I guess we'll find out in less than a week.

Back when I was a kid growing up in a small coastal town, I would frequently go to the backyard and walk toward the wall that separated our house from the neighbor's, climb up, and ask for some vinegar, cooking oil, salt, or whatever cooking ingredient my grandmother asked me to go borrow next door.

That's what I call borrowing old-school style.

These days, of course, the borrowing process is a bit more high tech. Take the case of Amazon, which just launched its Kindle book lending feature with more than 11,000 libraries. That means e-bookworms with a Kindle, library card and access to the InterWebs can now borrow a Kindle book from a library with as little physical effort as possible. Hooray for progress.

So how does this whole Kindle book lending work? Here's the short and sweet way to do it:

• Visit the library: And by that, I mean the Web site of a library that participates in the program, of course. Basically, the library must offer digital services via Overdrive. A good example is the Seattle Public Library, which served as the initial guinea pig, er, test site for the Kindle lending service.
• Check out your Kindle book: Once you get to the requisite library, work your way through the menus until you get to the section where they show their Kindle e-books. As an example, here's the Kindle Book section of the Seattle Public Library. Wow, it's got more than 25,000 Kindle books to lend! Unfortunately, libraries still have a limit on how many books they can lend out so there's a good chance that if you're borrowing a popular book, it may be unavailable. If so, there should be an option to get placed on a waiting list. Just to reiterate, you will need to have a library card with whatever library you want to borrow from. That's just how the whole library lending thing works, OK?
• Get your book: If you're fortunate enough to have a copy available of the book you want to borrow, then go ahead and click the "Get for Kindle" button. You will then be directed to sign in to your Amazon account where you can have the book sent to your Kindle reader or Kindle app.

And, that's basically it. Folks who have questions can visit Amazon's Kindle Library Lending Help Page or send an e-mail to: kindle-publiclibraries-feedback@amazon.com

Size matters. So does touch. And if you've got a creepy smile after reading that, well, I'm telling you now that you'll likely be disappointed when you find out what it is exactly that I am talking about.

What I'm actually referring to are e-readers. Yes, a most disappointing subject after that setup, for sure. But I'm certain you'll get over it and be a stronger person in the process.

Anyway, we've put together an article pitting several e-reading devices out there against each other to see which is the best compact touchscreen reader. So whose cuisine, er, size and touch reigns supreme? Well, check out the article to find out.

So during a recent trip to Japan, I realized that I gained about 7 pounds in a week after gorging on what should have been healthy Japanese food. The power of quantity truly is a fearsome thing.

As I looked at my suddenly rotund belly in dismay, I naturally had the urge to to post pictures of all the food I ate on Facebook. I figured, if I make my friends hungry, then they might overeat, too, gain weight and my misery would have its much needed company.

Unfortunately, my urge to save myself from paying a ransom for roaming charges on my smartphone trumped my juvenile and vindictive tendency to drag friends and loved ones to jiggly belly hell with me. Then I realized that there was a wireless router nearby and I could just disable my 3G connection. Yesssss, yesssss, share in my suffering everyone!

Anywho, check out my new tutorial on how to enable Wi-Fi only on your Android phone while disabling calls and your 3G/4G connection at the same time. After all, pain sharing is a dish best served cheaply.