Here’s a list of ten free Kindle ebooks for Sunday. Amazon also has a selection of Goodreads Choice Award nominees on sale today only for one of their main Deals of the Day. Please note that the free Kindle books listed below are free as of January 20th, 2019. Most of these titles are free […]
New 6″ Onyx Boox Poke Now Available for $149
The Onyx Boox Poke with a 6-inch 300 ppi E Ink screen and adjustable frontlight color has turned up for sale on Amazon at a reasonable price. It’s not from Onyx’s official Amazon store but a different seller has the Onyx Boox Poke available for $149 with free shipping. But note the shipping date is […]
New 6.8″ MobiScribe E Ink Notepad on Indiegogo for $199 (Video)
A new E Ink ereader and digital notepad has turned up on Indiegogo, a crowdfunding website. It’s being developed by a company called Team UC. The device is called the MobiScribe. It comes with a 6.8-inch E Ink Carta screen with a frontlight and it includes a stylus pen for writing notes on the screen. […]
Sans Forgetica Font Claims to Help You Remember What You Read
There’s a new font type called Sans Forgetica that was scientifically designed by academics at RMIT University to help enhance memory retention of digital text. I saw this topic mentioned over at MobileRead the other day and thought it was interesting, especially since it’s easy to sideload alternative fonts on ebook readers like Kindles and […]
3rd Party Kobo Forma Covers Finally Starting to Surface
If you have a Kobo Forma and don’t want to buy Kobo’s official cover, a few cheaper alternatives have finally started to become available online. Whoever’s idea it was to charge $50 for Kobo’s PU leather cover was crazy; they should be using real leather for that price. Even Amazon isn’t that greedy, and their […]
Free Tor eBook: The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander
If you like getting ebooks for free, Tor is giving away another highly-rated ebook this week as part of their monthly ebook club. The free ebook is The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander. It has a 4.8 star rating at Amazon with 102 reviews. It’s a science fiction alternate history novelette (description below). […]
Will Amazon Ever Release a Color Kindle?
It’s interesting how Kindles and other ebook readers have evolved over the years. They’ve added touchscreens and frontlights and now some models are even waterproof. One thing that hasn’t changed a whole lot is E Ink screens. Sure, they’ve improved the refresh rate and upgraded the resolution some, and a few devices like the Kobo […]
Power Saver Mode on Kindle Paperwhite, Have You Tried Disabling It?
Have you noticed how the new Kindle Paperwhite takes longer to turn on after it’s been turned off for awhile? It now shows a “Waking Up” screen that takes a few extra seconds to load before the device will turn on. This happens because of a new Power Saver setting that is enabled by default […]