Barnes and Noble is currently running a sale on the 7.8-inch Nook Glowlight Plus, and they also have a bunch of Nook accessories on sale for 50% off. In fact they have over 200 Nook accessories available for half price. Many of the accessories are for older Nooks, including the discontinued Nook tablets and Samsung […]
New Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Laptop Features 10.8″ E Ink Screen
Lenovo recently released a new dual-screen laptop called the ThinkBook Plus that has a secondary E Ink screen built into the top of the lid. The main display is a 13.3-inch 300 nit IPS screen with a resolution of 1920 x 1080, and the E Ink screen is a 10.8-inch 1920 x 1080 resolution screen […]
New PocketBook Color eReader Released, But Will Anyone Buy It?
Earlier this week PocketBook officially announced the release of their new PocketBook Color ebook reader, along with a new mid-level model called the PocketBook Touch Lux 5. The PocketBook Color is a 6-inch device with E Ink’s new Kaleido screen technology that can display 4096 colors. Black and white content has a resolution of 300 […]
New Kindle Printed Covers Now Available from Amazon
Amazon has released some new cover designs for the current entry-level Kindle, the 10th generation model that was released in 2019. Amazon calls them Kindle Printed Covers, and they’re available in three different designs—Bookscape, Library, and Mystery. The covers sell for $24.99 with free shipping, which is $5 less than Amazon’s regular fabric covers. The […]
How to Get a Large Screen Kindle When Amazon Refuses to Release One (Video)
Of all the nonsensical things associated with the dedicated ebook reader market, the thing that makes the least bit of sense to me is Amazon’s persistent refusal to release a Kindle with a larger screen. There are a number of e-readers with E Ink screens larger than 7-inches— in fact pretty much every company that […]
Interesting New Conversion Feature Added to Onyx’s eReaders (Video)
A couple weeks ago Onyx released another software update, version 2.3.1, for their line of Android ebook readers and digital notepads, and among the changes is an interesting new way to convert handwritten notes and shapes added to ebooks and documents when using the built-in NeoReader app. They introduced the text conversion feature last year […]
Kindle Oasis 3 Refurbs Back In Stock for $209
For some reason Amazon almost never puts the Kindle Oasis on sale, even though other Kindles and Amazon devices are regularly discounted. But there is a way to get the latest generation Kindle Oasis 3, which is the only Kindle with the option to use a warm frontlight, for $40 less than the regular $249 […]
Do Kindles Need Longer Battery Life?
When it comes to dedicated E Ink reading devices like Kindles, the technology evolves at a much slower pace than other electronics. Improvements are minimal between generations, and one thing that hasn’t improved at all over the years is battery life. In fact battery life has gotten noticeably worse over the years on Kindles and […]