Up until now the Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Owner’s Lending Library have been restricted to the United States only. But that’s about to change. Yesterday Amazon started taking pre-orders for the new Kindle Paperwhite from regional Amazon websites in Europe, including the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain, and Germany. Here are the links to each […]
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Amazon Adds Disclaimer About Kindle Paperwhite’s Uneven Lighting and Other Limitations
Here’s an interesting twist to the Kindle Paperwhite saga. Amazon has added a “We want you to know…” section to the Kindle Paperwhite’s product description page that links to a separate disclaimer page explaining “certain limitations” that Amazon wants you to know about. The three topics discussed include the lack of audio support and text-to-speech […]
Rooting Package for Sony Reader PRS-T2 Now Available
A couple of weeks ago I penned an article about how it didn’t look like the Sony PRS-T2 would get hacked to run Android apps anytime soon. Luckily, a lot can change in two weeks. The savvy developers, especially Boroda, over at MobileRead and The eBook have successfully managed to unlock the Sony PRS-T2 and […]
Txtr Beagle eBook Reader Aims to Become Cell Phone Accessory for 10 Euros ($13)
Txtr, a German ebook company, has come up with an innovative premise to get ebook readers into the hands of cell phone users by offering a really cheap and basic ebook reader subsidized by wireless carriers. It is called the txtr beagle and is one of the world’s smallest, lightest, and feature-deficient ebook readers. The […]
Bookeen Launching New Cybook Odyssey HD eBook Reader with Frontlight
The year of the lighted ebook reader is in full swing, so it comes as no big surprise that one of the oldest ebook reader companies, Bookeen, just announced the frontlight-equipped Cybook Odyssey HD that is coming to Europe in November. As the name suggests, the Cybook Odyssey HD uses the higher resolution 6-inch 758 […]
Kobo Glo and Kobo Mini Now Available in Select Regions
Kobo’s latest E Ink ebook readers, the Kobo Glo and Kobo Mini, are now available from certain retailers in Canada and the United Kingdom, and possibly some other European countries will be getting them soon too. Neither of Kobo’s new ereaders have reached the United States yet, however. Best Buy has them listed but they […]
Kindle Paperwhite Tips: How to Take Screenshots and Remove Recommended eBooks
I learned a couple of nifty tips for the Kindle Paperwhite over the weekend, including how to capture screenshots and how to remove the annoying recommended titles that appear on the first page of the homescreen. Mastering how to snap screenshots takes a little practice, but once you get it down it works well. All […]
Kobo Touch Firmware Update 2.1.4
If you own a Kobo Touch ebook reader you can expect it to get a firmware update this week, firmware version 2.1.4. Hopefully this update goes a lot smoother than the 2.0 update that gave many Kobo Touch owners problems over the summer. This isn’t a major update by any means, but it does add […]