Someone with a vendetta against Amazon has posted some images and details on reddit about a new color Kindle that is supposedly getting released later this year. The pictures show a prototype of what looks like a basic 6″ Kindle with a white bezel and a color E Ink screen. The prototype doesn’t have a […]
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Kobo Releasing New White Clara Colour Soon
Someone on reddit found a new product listing for a white Clara Colour on an obscure Canadian website, so it looks like Kobo is getting ready to release a new white version of the Kobo Clara Colour soon. This always happens whenever Kobo launches a new product; it always shows up on some random website […]
B&N Rep Says New Nook Devices are Coming Out in 2026
Last week Barnes and Noble posted an interview on YouTube with Jennifer Perry, the Director of Digital eCommerce at Barnes & Noble, and she confirmed that new Nook devices are coming out in 2026. Literally no details were given beyond that. We don’t even know for sure if she was talking about E Ink Nooks […]
Amazon is Trying to Hide the Original Kindle Colorsoft Now
Last week Amazon released a new 16GB version of the Kindle Colorsoft, along with a kids bundle. They’re exactly the same as the original Kindle Colorsoft that Amazon released last fall, minus the Signature Edition upgrades, and the original is still available to purchase, but now Amazon is making it very difficult to find it […]
Kindle Software Update 5.18.4 Adds New Accessibility Features
Amazon has released another software update for all 11th and 12th gen Kindles, along with the Kindle Colorsoft and Kindle Scribe. It’s a fairly significant update that adds some new accessibility features, including text-to-speech. Amazon hasn’t updated the release notes yet, but I installed the new 5.18.4 update on my 12th gen Paperwhite and noticed […]
Kobo eReaders Getting New Optional Screen Reader Feature
It looks like Kobo is getting prepared to add some new accessibility features to their latest ereaders soon, according to this new help page on Kobo’s website, and there are some interesting details about the change. Apparently they’re going to offer an optional software update, version 5.10, that adds the new accessibility features and it […]
Kobo eReaders No Longer Support Multiple Library Cards
One of the unique features with Kobo ereaders is the fact that they have OverDrive support built-in for borrowing ebooks from public libraries. But a recent change has taken away the ability to use multiple libraries on Kobo devices directly. Kobo has always been pretty vague about supporting more than one library on Kobo ereaders, […]
New Kindle Colorsoft Variant Released, Plus Colorsoft Kids Bundle
Today Amazon announced the release of a new lower-priced Kindle Colorsoft along with a Kindle Colorsoft Kids bundle. The new Kindle Colorsoft variant is basically a non-Signature Edition version of the original Colorsoft. It has 16GB of storage space instead of 32GB, and it lacks wireless charging and the auto-brightness sensor (I assume that means […]