The day long awaited by ebook fans is finally here – the complete Harry Potter series is available as ebooks! Even though the books are being advertised at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Sony ebook stores, you’ll be redirected to Pottermore to purchase the books. They are compatible with most popular ebook readers, tablets, and […]
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Scholastic Books have released reading app and ebookstore for children. The Storia app is available for Windows and for iPad, and it comes with five free ebooks and access to the Scholastic ebook store. Books have been carefully curated into age-appropriate groups, so you’ll know what’s right for your child. Storia has a built-in dictionary
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If your Sweetie has been wanting an ebook reader, you can give him/her a Sony PRS-T1 for Valentine’s Day for only $99.00. (Read The Gadgeteer’s review of the Sony PRS-T1.) Sony has reduced the price on their latest reader for a limited time, bringing the price of their touchscreen, WiFi-enabled reader in line with that
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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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Those of you considering upgrading their E-Readers (or those that bought new and have relegated your old E-Reader to the closet) may want to check out Sony’s highly-regarded PRS-T1 “Reader WiFi”. Sony just reduced the price to $129 (from $149) and is also running a trade-in program that could get you a $50 Sony Gift
Sony Drops Price on PRS-T1 Reader to $129 – Offers $50 Trade-In for Old E-Readers, Read More
Kyobo Book Centre, Korea’s largest seller of books, has announced the retail availability of the world’s first e-reader to include mirasol® display technology. The touch enabled Kyobo e-Reader features a 5.7″ XGA format (1024 x 768 pixels) mirasol display (screen resolution of 223 ppi) and Qualcomm’s 1.0 GHz Snapdragon™ S2 class processor and runs a custom
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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
Not long ago, Amazon made it possible for you to borrow books from participating libraries, and now they’ve introduced the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library. To participate, you must be an Amazon Prime member, and it appears you must own an actual Kindle. There are 5000 titles available now, including 100 current and former New York
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Every year I’ve been writing for The Gadgeteer, I’ve reviewed the newest Sony ebook reader. I admit I have moved on to reading mostly on my iPad 2, and I did just buy a Kindle, but I couldn’t let the new Sony reader pass without giving it a look. For many years, starting with the
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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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The NOOK Color bundle with Sullivan Easel cover and issues of 34 magazines is available at QVC as the Today’s Special Value for 8/2/11. Magazines include PC Gamer, sports magazines like ESPN, various titles from National Geographic, food/cooking magazines from Rachel Ray, Martha Stewart and more, Forbes, Readers Digest, American Photography, and more. The Sullivan
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The Amazon Kindle is a very popular ebook reading device because it’s so portable and has the ability to store 100’s of books in such a small package. It’s also very easy to use except if you happen to be a person that lacks fine motor skills. How can a person that does not have
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OverDrive is the service used by more than 15,000 libraries to provide digital and audiobook access to their patrons. The OverDrive Media Console is a universal app for iPhone/iPod touch and iPad that will let you locate a nearby library offering OverDrive books, let you search their offerings, and check out books using a valid
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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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Dedicated eBook reading devices tend to fall in one of two categories: E-ink or Color. Examples of E-ink eBook readers are the Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook (the original and new Simple Touch version) and various Sony Readers. The most popular color reader is currently the Barnes & Noble Nook Color. But today I’m
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Aluratek says they’re “cutting the cord” with these two new WiFi-enabled ebook readers. You can now download ebooks wirelessly with the new Libre Air (left) and Libre Touch (right) readers. Both readers allow you to borrow ebooks from the library, and Adobe Digital Editions software can be used to purchase, download, view and manage e-books. They’ll come
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