Tag: E-READERS

The iPad and NOOKstudy were supposed to usher in the death of the traditional textbooks. Yet, for all their undeniable advantages (lower price being key amongst them, since a single semester's texts can cost up to $500) students have clung to their bound-paper tomes. But while Google searches have replaced microfiche and Skype has replaced weekly phone calls home to ask for money, the iPad and ...

The new HTML5-powered 'Booki.sh' e-reading app is entirely Web-based and, unlike Kindle, Nook or even Blio, can be viewed in any modern browser, regardless of platform. This means that PCs, Macs, Linux, Android, iOS and BlackBerry can all view content through Booki.sh. The app takes advantage of HTML5's rarely used offline storage to let you read without a wireless connection. As you can see in ...

PDFs viewing on an e-reader is a must-have feature. But there is a problem; many PDFs you'll find, whether passed out by professors or downloaded from free e-book sites like Project Gutenberg or Google Books, are poorly formatted for reading on the devices. There are often errant page headers and page numbers that end up in seemingly random spots of the text. You might occasionally encounter ...

This evening, Amazon unveiled an updated Kindle, the newest member of company's Kindle family of e-readers. The device, simply titled Kindle, lands on August 27th for $139 (Wi-Fi only) and $189 (AT&T 3G). The new Kindle is 21-percent smaller than its predecessor, and is available in graphite and the traditional Amazon white. Although 15-percent lighter, the screen size is still the same ...

The Kindle may be facing stiff e-reader competition from Apple's iPad, but, when it comes to printed books, at least, Amazon's reader seems to be dominating the market pretty handily. The company says it sold approximately 143 Kindle books for every 100 hardcover books sold over the past three months, and that gap is continuing to widen. Last month alone, for example, Amazon sold 180 Kindle books ...

E-book readers like the Amazon Kindle may be popular, but they're not as popular as iPods. Most folks have a hard time rationalizing dropping $300 on a device with limited capabilities that they're only going to have to spend more money on to fill with content. Now many are arguing that e-readers are not a flashy luxury, but yet another way for us to help protect the environment. Recent ...

Amazon is hosting a press event in New York City on Wednesday, which means there's a new Kindle on the way. Our colleagues over at Engadget dug up some spy photos and basic specs of the new device, which is being called the Kindle DX. Improvements over the current Kindle 2 include a larger, 9.7-inch display, a built-in PDF reader, and the ability to add annotations (as well as notes, as before). ...

Amazon made us wait for over a year between the Kindle and the updated Kindle 2.0. But a scant three months after the unveiling of the newer e-reader, online rumors are already saying that we may see a bigger-screen Kindle as soon as this week. Amazon has begun to send out invitations to a press event, scheduled for this Wednesday, May 6th, where many expect that a larger-screened device, ...

2009 marks the 200th birthday of Louis Braille, the ingenious inventor of the eponymously named letter code that enables the blind to read by touch. Aside from Samsung's award-winning Touch Messenger (which featured Braille touch pads for text-messaging), the system has remained largely ignored by evolving technology -- until now. Just in time for the bicentennial birthday celebration, a team of ...

It's a good time to be a Sony Reader owner. Google has just made 500,000 titles from its massive public-domain book collection accessible to users of Sony's popular e-book reader. This is the first time Google has made these resources available to such a device, effectively pushing Sony's Reader past Amazon's Kindle (which offers about 240,000 titles) in terms of books available for the ...

We were able to get our hands on an Amazon Kindle 2 a few days before today's ship date. The next-generation e-book reader is lighter and thinner, has a longer battery life, and now includes text-to-speech capability, but for $359, is it worth upgrading from the original? More importantly, is it ready to replace your books? (Possibly, if you plan on reading or buying 72 books in the next ...

Say goodbye to the Speak-and-Spell look of Amazon's Kindle, because this morning the company's co-founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos, and author Stephen King unveiled the Kindle 2, a slimmer, slicker, and lighter successor to the original Kindle that launched about 14 months ago (and which has already become one of Oprah's favorite devices). Besides the size and weight shrink, the main new feature on ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/world_news/Amazon_to_host_press_event_at_library'; It could mean anything that Amazon is hosting a press event Monday morning, February 9th at the Morgan Library here in New York City. Maybe they just want to talk about how much they enjoy huge archives of original manuscripts and the smell of aged paper. Whatever the case may be, the last time we went to an Amazon ...

Been waiting patiently for the next-generation Kindle(s) to hit the market? Growing increasingly frustrated with the wait? Thanks to the Amazon e-reader becoming Oprah Winfrey's "new favorite, favorite thing in the world (can't you see the jubilation on her face?)," you might just have to finally pull the trigger on the existing iteration. As a special offer for 'Oprah Show' viewers (and by ...

The idea of an electronic book-sized device that could be loaded with hundreds or thousands of different titles is just about as old as the modern computer. Many so-called e-book readers have been produced over the years, but none got much attention from the traditionalists who said they still liked their paper. Then came Amazon's Kindle, which appears to be doing to the e-book market what ...