Let the speculations begin. Amazon.com has suddenly depleted their supply of Kindle Touches down to nearly nothing. Of the four variations of Kindle Touch models Amazon sells, there is currently only one model in stock, the $139 WiFi Kindle Touch without Special Offers. The $99 Kindle Touch WiFi model is unavailable and the page says […]
eBook Readers
Amazon Now Limiting Kindle 3G Data Usage to 50MB Per Month
Some folks over at MobileRead have noticed that Amazon is now limiting Kindle 3G usage to just 50MB per month for the experimental web browser. After hitting the limit you can still use the Kindle’s 3G connection to shop and download ebooks, as well as browse Amazon.com and Wikipedia, but all other 3G web browsing […]
New Firmware Version 5.1.2 for Kindle Touch Closes Security Hole
Amazon has issued a new firmware update for the Kindle Touch, version 5.1.2. It doesn’t bring any cool new features but it does close a glaring security hole in the Kindle Touch’s web browser. It turns out the Kindle’s “Experimental” web browser, as Amazon calls it, was indeed the experiment of hackers who discovered an […]
Review: Icarus Excel 9.7″ E Ink eBook Reader
It’s been a long time since I had the chance to review a large ebook reader with a 9.7″ screen. Ever since tablets have risen to prominence, E Ink ebook readers have been on the decline, especially expensive models with larger screens. It was fun to test out something different for a change. So here […]
New Sony Reader PRS-T2 Coming Soon, What New Features Will it Have?
Every year around August to November Sony releases a new ebook reader, and like clockwork, it looks like Sony is already preparing to release a successor to the Sony Reader PRS-T1 from last year. The Sony PRS-T2 showed up on the FCC website this week. The big question, though, is what new features does it […]
Kobo Touch Headed to Japan, But What Does That Mean Here?
Today Kobo announced that they are bringing their ebookstore and Kobo Touch ereader to Japan on July 19th. This is no big surprise considering Kobo was purchased by Rakuten earlier this year, a Japanese online retailer. The bigger surprise is that Kobo beat Amazon to the punch, who is also expected to launch an ebookstore […]
Watching Cartoons on a Kindle Touch and Nook Touch (Videos)
In the past I’ve posted about how hackers have figured out how to play videos on a Nook Touch and Kindle Touch, so this isn’t anything new exactly, but I’ve recently come across a couple of new videos and they are too strange to pass up. This time around we’ve got a couple of cartoons […]
Who Will be the Next to Release a Lighted eBook Reader?
Now that Barnes and Noble has released the Nook Touch with GlowLight, which appears to be relatively successful given the fact B&N couldn’t keep them in stock for the first several weeks, the big question is who will be the next to release a similar E Ink ebook reader with a built-in front light? Amazon […]