The eBook Reader Blog

Amazon has the new waterproof Kindle Paperwhite on sale today only for one of their main Deals of the Day. The new Kindle Paperwhite is marked down to just $89, its lowest price yet, and all versions are on sale, including the 32GB model. This is a 1-day sale only for January 21st, 2019. It’s […]

Here’s a list of ten free Kindle ebooks for Sunday. Amazon also has a selection of Goodreads Choice Award nominees on sale today only for one of their main Deals of the Day. Please note that the free Kindle books listed below are free as of January 20th, 2019. Most of these titles are free […]

The Onyx Boox Poke with a 6-inch 300 ppi E Ink screen and adjustable frontlight color has turned up for sale on Amazon at a reasonable price. It’s not from Onyx’s official Amazon store but a different seller has the Onyx Boox Poke available for $149 with free shipping. But note the shipping date is […]

A new E Ink ereader and digital notepad has turned up on Indiegogo, a crowdfunding website. It’s being developed by a company called Team UC. The device is called the MobiScribe. It comes with a 6.8-inch E Ink Carta screen with a frontlight and it includes a stylus pen for writing notes on the screen. […]

There’s a new font type called Sans Forgetica that was scientifically designed by academics at RMIT University to help enhance memory retention of digital text. I saw this topic mentioned over at MobileRead the other day and thought it was interesting, especially since it’s easy to sideload alternative fonts on ebook readers like Kindles and […]

If you have a Kobo Forma and don’t want to buy Kobo’s official cover, a few cheaper alternatives have finally started to become available online. Whoever’s idea it was to charge $50 for Kobo’s PU leather cover was crazy; they should be using real leather for that price. Even Amazon isn’t that greedy, and their […]

If you like getting ebooks for free, Tor is giving away another highly-rated ebook this week as part of their monthly ebook club. The free ebook is The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander. It has a 4.8 star rating at Amazon with 102 reviews. It’s a science fiction alternate history novelette (description below). […]

It’s interesting how Kindles and other ebook readers have evolved over the years. They’ve added touchscreens and frontlights and now some models are even waterproof. One thing that hasn’t changed a whole lot is E Ink screens. Sure, they’ve improved the refresh rate and upgraded the resolution some, and a few devices like the Kobo […]