Focusing ebooks and ereaders
Video: eBooks in Action on iPad
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Is iPad Really Going To Kill Kindle? No, It’s Not
The iPad has been announced. But does it mean Kindle will be dead? No, not at all. Remeber, iPad is still a multimedia device. You can do a lot of things including reading ebooks; but it’s not focused on reading ebooks. Those who prefer to read a lot of fiction, and text-only non-fiction still need [...]
Nook Also Available From Amazon, But Not Sold By Amazon
Some people are selling Nook at Amazon.com. Nook is not currently available in B&N online store. If you order it now, you will probably get it after February 12. I found on the amazon store that some people are even selling it as high as $600. However, you can also find some rarely used ones [...]
1400+ Newspapers & Magazines on Kindle From NewspaperDirect Aka PressDisplay
That’s good news though comes at a cost since you’ve to pay for the content. For a long time PressDisplay is offerering newspapers and magazines in their original paper format displayed on your PC or laptop. They have also application for iPhone/iPodTouch. However, you can’t download newspapers wirelessly on 3G network. Firsy you’ve to download [...]
Collection of eReader Videos from CES
Here is a collection of videos covering ereaders at CES. I’ll add more as I get them.
CNNMoney contributor Jonathan Blum reports on the latest offerings in e-readers at the Consumer Electronics Show.
Plastic Logic’s Que Reader:
Samsung’s E6 ereader hands-on by Cruchgear:
Hands-on Que Reader by Engadget:
Alex eReader demo from Crunchgear:
Copia eraders from Engadget:
enTourage’s eDGe:
Pixel Qi LCD screen:
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Speculation: A Color-screen Kindle with Mirasol Display By Fall 2010
Those who believe that Kindle didn’t evolve in last two years (I’m also one of them) would be happy to know that a lot speculation now that a color kindle will be available probably around Fall 2010. The color display would be Qualcomm’s Mirasol. Engadget reports that
We spoke at length with executives, and they’re currently [...]
Kindle DX May Go Global Anytime
Engadget got an snapshoot of amazon website – on the right corner it says: “Kindle DX Now with Global Wireless.” Not yet, really; but amazon is probably ready to ship Kindle DX globally like Kindle 2. There will be no Kindle DX (U.S. wireless) then. If you go to amazon website or it’s kindle site, [...]
“I was honestly shocked when we found out that the wholse OS runs on microSD” Says NookDevs Team Leader Robbie
The person behind the NookDevs team rooting and hacking the Nook is Robbie Trencheny. He is an 18-year-old student now leading the team to run applications on Nook. Recently, Robbie gave an interview with Nookaholic. Among the other things, he said:
I was honestly shocked when we found out that the whole OS runs on microSD [...]
Nook Has Been SoftRooted, Nookmail App coming soon
Now you can root your nook without any tear down. But still you need a linux machine to run the command. Here you can find the steps to get your nook softrooted. Follow the instructions carefully.
Be careful, if anything goes wrong you might end up with nook as just a ‘paper weight’. Also, the process [...]
How to Install Applications on Nook
Since the nook has been rooted by NookDevs a lot of people got interested on usability of nook with respect to installing android applications. And it’s now possible if you have enough courage to root your nook.
It’s not an easy job since you have to take apart the nook first, and you must have knowledge [...]
Nook Has Been Hacked and Rooted By Dev Team
Do you know there is a Nook Dev team? Probably not until now. Yes, the team has torn off the nook, took out the micro SD card which contains the whole Android OS. They have used a card reader connected to a Linux computer that has Android Dev Toolkit installed to access the file system [...]
PDFs on Nook
This is from Gizmodo regarding how PDFs shows up on nook. Remember, recently amazon also released a software update for kindle that makes PDFs viewable on kindle but on kindle it doesn’t reflow texts. Nook rather offer text reflow of PDFs. Gizmodo has an update on this feature comparing kindle versus nook:
PDFs are supported natively [...]
Will There Be a Nook 2? And Should You Wait Until then?
There are reports that nook is sluggish, and less responsibe to touch on the LCD screen, even sometimes the swipe gestures do not work on the touch screen. Gizmodo says that that’s their biggest disappointment, but still they find a lot of future possibilities with nook. I found some comments on the blogsphere that people [...]
Hand-on Nook Review by Gizmodo: “Great all-around ebook reader”
nook got the first hand-on review on Gizmodo. The review is fair and balanced, and goes in favor of nook even though some features couldn’t be tested. Here is what Gizmodo says about nook, specially with respect to touch screen which makes nook different from other devices:
nook preserves the same pleasurable reading experience, but tucks [...]
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 [...]
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