The Lenovo IdeaPad is the sleeper pick for 7-inch Android tablets this holiday season. It has the same $199 price as the Kindle Fire, Nook Color, and Kobo Vox, and comes with features all of those lack. Like its similarly-priced competitors, the Lenovo IdeaPad has a 7″ 1024 x 600 pixel resolution display, it runs […]
Prime eBooks: Amazon Prime Members Can Now Borrow eBooks for Free on Kindles
It turns out the rumor about Amazon introducing Prime eBooks was true. Amazon has launched a Kindle Owners’ Lending Library for U.S. Amazon Prime members that allows Kindle owners to borrow ebooks for free, up to one ebook per month per account. The selection is surprisingly plentiful. There are already over 5,000 Kindle ebooks to […]
Nook Tablet Coming on November 16th for $249, Pre-Orders Start Monday
That grainy black and white picture to the left is the first glimpse at the new Nook Tablet that Barnes and Noble is going to unveil on November 7th. It looks just like the Nook Color, but it comes with substantial upgrades. Some of the shiny new features include a dual-core processor, 16GB of onboard […]
Nook Color Getting $199 Price, Hulu Plus, and More Streaming Music
Amid a whirlwind of leaked documents, it looks like Barnes and Noble intends to keep selling the Nook Color even though they are releasing a new Nook Tablet on November 16th. The Nook Color will be getting a $50 price drop down to $199, making it the same price as the Kobo Vox and Kindle […]
$99 Nook Touch Incoming, Plus Firmware Update to Add Multi-touch and other Features
Next week’s big Nook announcement has come early thanks to some leaked documents. Aside from the Nook Color getting Hulu Plus and the unveiling of the new Nook Tablet, the Nook Touch is getting a price drop down to $99 and a couple of new features to boot. That’s $40 less than the Nook Touch […]
Google eBooks Now Available in Canada
Yesterday marked the launch of Google eBooks in Canada, giving Canadian readers access to hundreds of thousands of titles from publishers like Random House, McClelland & Stewart, Douglas & McIntyre, House of Anansi, Dundurn, and others. Google’s two million public domain ebooks are included too, or course. Google also partnered with the Campus eBookstore and […]
Angry Birds and Other Games Do Work on the Nook Touch, Kind of
Hacking the Sony PRS-T1 and experimenting with installing various Android apps has gotten me curious about trying different things on the Nook Touch all over again since it works a lot better rooted than the Sony does at this point. A lot of it has to do with the way each device refreshes. The Sony […]
New Flexible LED Light Film Brings Light to eReaders
A reader tipped me a few weeks back about this Flex Lighting website that advertises a new type of lighting technology designed for ebook readers with reflective displays such as E Ink. One of the shortfalls of E Ink ebook readers like the Kindle and Nook is that they can’t be used at night or […]