Yesterday Tor listed this month’s free ebook offering for their eBook of the Month Club. The free ebook for March 2019 is The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi. It was the winner of the 2018 Locus Award for best science fiction novel, and it was a Hugo Award finalist. Like usual all you have to […]
Boyue Likebook Muses Review and Video Walkthrough
Review Date: March 2019 – Review unit purchased from Amazon Overview The Likebook Muses, model number T78D, is the latest Android-powered octacore-equipped ebook reader from Boyue, an ereader company based in China. It’s a lot like the Likebook Mars that was released last fall, but with an updated design and they added a Wacom touchscreen […]
Likebook Muses PDF Review (Video)
The Likebook Muses is a new Android-powered ebook reader with an octa-core processor and a 7.8-inch E Ink screen with adjustable frontlight color. It has a Wacom touchscreen and comes with a stylus pen to write notes and drawings directly on PDFs. Boyue has added some additional features to make reading PDFs easier than when […]
Sony Digital Paper PDF Readers on Sale for $100 off
Sony is currently running a sale on their Digital Paper devices, including the 13.3-inch Sony DPT-RP1, both white and black versions, and the 10.3-inch Sony DPT-CP1. The sale price of the Sony DPT-CP1 is $499 and the sale price of the Sony DPT-RP1 is $599. Both are on sale at Amazon and other authorized resellers […]
Dasung Not-eReader has Surprisingly Fast Refresh Rate (Video)
The Dasung Not-eReader is a new 7.8-inch E Ink tablet and ereader (despite the name), and it just might be the fastest E Ink ereader yet. Dasung uploaded a brief YouTube video yesterday showing the Kindle app in action on the Not-eReader and the app appears to work surprisingly well. It reacts faster than it […]
Kindle on Sale for $49, Kindle Paperwhite $99
Amazon is having another round of Kindle sales, and this time they’ve got the entry-level Kindle on sale for the first time in several months. Plus at $49 it ties the lowest sale price ever, and it also comes with 3 months of Kindle Unlimited for free. Kindle Unlimited subscriptions normally sell for $9.99 per […]
Walmart Now Charging More for eBook Gift Cards Than They’re Worth
Here’s yet another example of how the Walmart Kobo partnership has gotten off to a questionable start. To begin with the in-store Kobo displays turned out to be a joke. Walmart only stocked the entry-level model in a few stores and they haven’t had any of the higher up models on display at all. Then […]
Amazon Experimenting with Kindle Prices Again
At some point recently Amazon quietly changed the price of the entry-level Kindle without ads to $89, including both the US version and the international version. Normally it sells for $99 without ads and $79 with ads. The $89 price isn’t being advertised as a sale, and the Special Offers version is still $79. Generally […]