Focusing ebooks and ereaders
Ereaders are Hot Gift Items This Year
abcnews TechBytes reports that three million of eReaders have been sold this year alone. There is a video report as well with the news that you can watch on the site. The report mentions about kindle, sony reader, and nook which is yet to reach in the hands of eBook lovers.It reports:
Convenience doesn’t come cheap. [...]
Another Android Tablet For eBook Reading – Syntron Mirror Coming in 2010
Another tablet using Android OS – 8.9″ LCD touch display, file management coverflow, video book capability like Vook, wi-fi, 3G, bluetooth, web browsing, open office installed. It’s called Mirror. Mike Cane has a good review. Here is what the company says about mirror:
With 8’9 large touch screen to provide a comfort reading experience. It just [...]
The Android Flood is Coming: Alex, Archos and Camangi Mini-Tablets
Yes, that true. We’ve found already the demonstration of Spring Design’s Alex as an eBook reader with built-in web-brower has dual screen one is eInk and other one is LCD touch screen. There are two other models we recently discovered – those are not specific to eReading like the iPhone/iPodTouch. Yes, still people are reading [...]
No More Nooks Before Holiday, But You can Receive a Special Certificate If You Order Now
Yes, that’s true. The high demand for nook has caused B&N to fix the shipping dates of the orders based on order dates. If you order now you wouldn’t get it until the first week of the new year. That means you miss the nook if it’s in your holiday season shopping list. The last [...]
Finally, B&N Will Allow Gift Cards For eBook Purchases on Nook and Other Devices From mid-December
Here is the worddss from B&N’s Unbound: eReading Blog:
More good news on the eBook front: We’ll soon accept Barnes & Noble gift cards as payment in our eBook store.
This change — effective in mid-December — will allow customers to use physical gift cards and online gift certificates to purchase eBooks through our site, through nook, [...]
Kindle Specticism: Is It Real? Or Should It Be?
We’ve so many discussion on blogsphere regarding the closed ecosystem of eBook readers available in the market now. kindle, nook, Sony reader – all of them are closed system. Once you buy one of them you’re stuck with specific formats delivered to the device and the notorious DRM make you heavily rely on the specific [...]
Instapaper Rolls Out Previous Kindle Supports, Now Also Offers ePub Format & USB Transfer
Instapaper, the famous bookmarking tool for kindle has already rolled out, but now still you can read your preferred blogs on kindle through USB transfer. Additionally, it now offers content in ePub format since many readers like Sony Reader supports ePub. TechCrunch reports the problem with Instapaper kindle support:
There were a number of problems with [...]
VEGA: The Mysterious Apple Slate-Like Tablet With Android Touchscreen Coming Next Year
The company, ICD, has announced a big iPodTouch-like device with mutitouch screen based on Android OS. I don’t what will happen to this device if Apple really come out with the mysterious device called Apple Slate. The Vega looks similar to iPodTouch with big screen. It’s a multimedia device, but can be used as an [...]
Hands On: enTourage eDGe eBook Reader By Gearlog
Gearlong got a hands on enTourage eDGe ebook Reader recently. We have posted some news on this device few days back under the title: e-Reader + NetBook: Entourage Edge: e-Ink + LCD – Dual Screen. Here is a recap:
It supports e-books in PDF and EPUB format and take notes or draw diagrams for easy storing [...]
You Don’t Need a Kindle 2 / Kindle DX To Read e-books, May Be You Need An Asus EEEPC Tablet
With the release of kindle for PC (kindle for Mac coming soon) you don’t need a kindle or iphone/ipodtouch to buy kindle e-books from amazon. If you travel a lot, and love to read novels for a long time a $259 kindle 2 price is now better; but if you need to read a lot [...]
B&N e-books Will be Available in Canada from December 1, But No Nook For Now
This is from B&N’s Unbound: The eReading Blog:
Some good news for readers north of the border: We’ll soon start selling Barnes & Noble eBooks to customers in Canada.
The update, which will take place around Dec. 1, will allow people living in or visiting Canada to shop our eBook store and download eBooks to their B&N [...]
[tab:kindle Tips & Tricks]
How Can You Use Google Calendar On Kindle?
You can use Google Calendar on your kindle. Follow the steps:
Go to Kindle’s Web browser
Type www.google.com/calendar/m. Yes, that’s the mobile version.
You’ll see your appointments for …
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What is the best Way to Organize books on Kindle? – Yes, Tagging
In my last post I talked about creating folders for kindle. By creating folders you can organize books in the kindle that can only be useful for archieving, and you can see the folders when you connect it to the computer. You can’t the folders on kindle. On kindle homescreen, you’ll see all the books. [...]
Can I create Folders on Kindle?
You can create folders on your kindle, but you will not see them there. You will only be able to see them when your kindle is connected to a computer. Books in the folders will show on your kindle, but you won’t see the folder names. You won’t be able to move the books from [...]
How Can You Put Kindle Books on a Wish List?
You already know how to create wishlist of books, DVD etc. associated with you amazon customer account, and you can make them public or private . Generally,you can put items on the list by clicking on an “Add to Wish List” button. Unfortunately, such button is not displayed in kindle store. As a [...]
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