Today Amazon started shipping both models of the Kindle Paperwhite, the Wi-Fi version and the 3G/Wi-Fi version. Mine will be arriving shortly, and I promise I’ll post a video and first impressions review on Wednesday. I was thinking about it the other day and it occurred to me that the 3G model is way overpriced […]
eBook Readers
GlowLight Nook Touch Gets $20 Price Drop – Now $119
Witnessing the back and forth between Amazon and Barnes and Noble can be quite entertaining. This time around B&N is dropping the price of their GlowLight Nook Touch by $20, making it the same price as the Kindle Paperwhite. B&N also likes to point out in bold script that a power adapter is included at […]
Kindle Paperwhite User Guide and New Video Surface
The Kindle Paperwhite is going to start shipping this upcoming week, and a bunch of reviews from major tech websites will likely start flooding the net all at once on Monday. Until then all we’ve got to sate our curiosity is a couple of new items that have surfaced this week. First, Amazon has posted […]
Nook Touch and GlowLight Nook Now For Sale in the UK
Barnes and Noble is finally starting to roll out their expansion plans in the United Kingdom (better late than never). The Nook Touch and GlowLight Nook are both available for pre-order from several UK retailers, including Argos, Currys, Blackwell’s, and Foyles, among others. The Nook Touch sells for £79 and the GlowLight Nook sells for […]
It Doesn’t Look Like the Sony PRS-T2 Will Get Hacked Anytime Soon
One of the reasons the Sony PRS-T1 was so popular was the fact that the underlying Android operating system could be hacked to run Android applications to bring a number of additional features to the Reader. It could install several different ereading apps, alternate homescreens for a different look and feel, support for additional languages, […]
New Onyx Boox i62HD Firefly has HD E Ink Screen and Front Light (Video)
Not too long ago I posted about an interesting-looking E Ink ebook reader out of Europe called the Onyx Boox i62. Shortly after that a video of a similar Onyx Boox ereader with a lighted screen turned up on a Chinese website. Now the two have been combined together to create the Onyx Boox i62HD […]
Review: Sony Reader PRS-T2 – The T1 Reborn
Here’s the link to my Sony Reader PRS-T2 Review. It’s a couple of weeks late but that just gave me some extra time to test it out. The review includes a 15 minute video walkthrough, some pictures that turned out with a hint of light blue, and some outsourcing to some earlier PRS-T1 reviews since […]
Software Update v3.4 for Kindle Keyboard Adds New Features
Today Amazon released a software update for the Kindle Keyboard, also known as the Kindle 3. The update is somewhat surprising seeing as how that model is a couple generations old, but it’s good to see Amazon continuing to support the older Kindles. It also appears that they intend to continue selling the Kindle Keyboard […]