Send a lot of personal documents to your Kindle but sick of mucking around with emails to get them there? Amazon has just released the free Send to Kindle for PC application. Using Windows Explorer, right click on any supported file format (.doc, .docx, .txt, .rtf,.jpeg, .jpg, .gif, .png, .gmp, .pdf) , and Send to Kindle [...]
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FLEx Lighting has created an illuminated optical film that may eliminate the need for reading lights with e-ink readers (amongst other applications). The 50 micron film is flexible, edgeless, and invisible when turned off and produces a soft, low uniform light when on using a single low power consuming LED . It can be implemented either [...]
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Microsoft Office 2010: Tips and Tricks [affiliate link] is an eBook that offers more than 50 tips and tricks focused on making sure that you get the most out of Office 2010, which is one of the most popular and user friendly office suites in the market. With Office 2010, Microsoft made it bigger by integrating [...]
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Last week Amazon went a little crazy and announced 4 new devices all on the same day. The Kindle, Kindle Touch, Kindle Touch 3G and the Kindle Fire. The first 3 devices are e-book readers and the Fire is a tablet. That is a lot of devices and of course we plan to review all [...]
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So I’m sitting on the Reunification Express on my way to Hue from Hanoi in Vietnam. It’s a 13 hour trip and I need something to while away the time. This is the third overseas trip I’ve done with my Kindle and figured why not write a quick review of how useful the Amazon Kindle [...]
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I heard the sad news on Wednesday that Michael S. Hart had passed away at 64. Who is Michael S. Hart you may ask? He is the founder of Project Gutenburg (PG), which is one of the earliest and longest-lasting online literary projects. The picture for this article is a screen grab of “ebook #1″ [...]
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Over the past few years Amazon has created Kindle reading software for just about every electronic device in existence. Today, they announced they were taking the Kindle to the cloud with their HTML5 based reader. Now anyone running Google’s Chrome, Apple’s Safari on Windows or Mac OSX or Apple’s Mobile Safari on the iPad, iPod [...]
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Kobo now has a touch screen version of their eReader called the Kobo eReader Touch. It is very similar the Nook Touch, but has no hardware buttons, and is a little narrower. The key specs are: 6″ Pearl high contrast E Ink display Infrared touch screen 2 GB of storage Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n SD Card slot [...]
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You can think of eBook Fling as the Netflix of eBooks. With this site, you can borrow thousands of books from other readers across the US for FREE for 14 days through the Kindle and Nook. Don’t have a Kindle or Nook eReader? No problem. eBook Fling also works with iPad, iPhone, Blackberry or Android [...]
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Openmoko’s WikiReader handheld Wikipedia viewer, which we reviewed late last year, is now able to display the entire contents of Project Gutenberg. Project Gutenberg is the oldest digital library which contains more than 33,000 digital books. All of these books have been converted and compressed so that users can download the entire Project Gutenberg library onto a [...]
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Do you own multiple ebook reader devices? Maybe you own a Kindle, Nook, iPad, iPhone or other smartphone with multiple Reader apps. When you find a book that you wish to purchase, do you spend time checking all the online stores to make sure you get the best deal? An easier way is to use Leatherbound. [...]
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Barnes & Noble just announced the next version of their Nook eBook reader. It’s the NOOKcolor. It has a 7″ 1024 x 600 color display. However, unlike the original Nook, the entire display is touch enabled. It’s also interesting to note that the display is 169 dpi. By comparison the iPad is 132, iPhone 3gs [...]
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Amazon has just announced a new and improved version of their larger eBook reader, the Kindle DX. It has an improved screen, better battery life, free worldwide connectivity and is available in dark gray (to list some of the upgrades). Amazon’s Kindle continues to be the iPad’s biggest competition in the eReader game. Priced at [...]
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The new release of the Amazon Kindle firmware, 2.5, was downloaded to my Kindle DX the other day. (It has been steadily downloaded to Kindles over the past several weeks. If you own a Kindle, just turn on the wireless mode and then choose the Sync & Download New Items option.) Among other things, [...]
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If you’ve decided that your e-book reader is your new body part, you may have stumbled upon some of the DIY book-scanner forums or sites such as diybookscanner.org. While the designs presented on the internet are intriguing, they are not always practical for klutzes. Ahem. So I was equally intrigued by this, the VuPoint Solutions [...]
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Amazon will soon be releasing a software upgrade which should provide a solution to one of the annoying nuisances of the device: the lack of a decent way to organize items. Currently, items on the Kindle are listed without sophisticated organization. Additionally, a zoom feature for PDF files is supposedly on its way. Currently, the [...]
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If you’ve not yet jumped over into the world of eBooks, BookAse is an online price comparison shopping engine that allows you to compare prices for books and helps you the find the cheapest possible prices.
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