One European eReader I have always had an overseas crush on is the Cybook Odyssey HD. Now that French eReader developer Bookeen has released a 2nd-gen edition of this device—with a frontlit display—I want one even more. The Cybook Odyssey HD Frontlight features a 6-inch capacitive touch HD E Ink display (1024 x 758), and its […]
Walmart, Costco, Target and Other Retailers to Start Selling eBooks?
Last week Publishers Weekly posted an interesting article about how ebooks could be coming to grocery stores, drug stores, and other mass-market retailers in as little as six to eight months, maybe sooner. At this stage in ebook evolution it still seems a bit odd to buy ebooks from stores like Walmart and Walgreens, but […]
The eBook Reader.com Needs Your Help
So I’ve got some good news and some bad news. The good news is that I’ve spent the past couple of weeks getting everything on this website migrated over to a new host to improve overall performance and reliability. I know some folks have been periodically having issues getting blog pages to load over the […]
How Often Do You Have Your eBook Reader’s Frontlight Turned On?
I’ve noticed something interesting about my ebook reading habits. Ever since the Nook Touch with GlowLight was released, and now that the Kobo Glo and Kindle Paperwhite have come along, I almost always prefer to have the frontlight turned on when reading. The light always seems to make the screen look a little better, even […]
A Closer Look at E Ink Triton 2 Color Displays (Video)
E Ink was at CES last week and as usual they had some demo products to display. E Ink is best known for the screens that they supply for ebook readers. The vast majority of E Ink screens are monochrome, but they also make color screens as well. E Ink calls them Triton displays. Color […]
“Does Anyone Have a Surface?”
Now that the 2012 holiday shopping season has drawn to a close, tech market analysts have been busy at work, trying to figure out who the winners and losers of the fourth-quarter gadget wars were. A number of interesting studies have been published recently, but in the case of Microsoft’s Surface tablet, I don’t think […]
A Look at the Ridiculously Laughable PaperTab (Video)
Every year at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas companies show off their latest and greatest gadgets. But over the past couple of years the number of cool gadgets at CES has really taken a nosedive, and this year I think things have hit a new low. No revolutionary ereaders or tablets were shown […]
A Look at the YotaPhone, an Android Phone with an E Ink screen
2013 looks like it’s going to be the year of the E Ink smartphone. In earlier posts we’ve seen prototypes of E Ink covers for the iPhone, Android-powered E Ink phones, and dual-screen phones. A Russian company called Yota Devices aims to be one of the first companies to release a dual-screen phone that has […]