The Lenovo IdeaPad A1 just went up for pre-order a couple days ago starting at $199 from Lenovo’s website. Given the price and specs, the Lenovo IdeaPad A1 just might be a better tablet to go with than the Kindle Fire, and it is a better tablet than the Nook Color, at least on paper.
Nook Touch Now $99 Certified Pre-Owned
Shaving $13 off of the refurbished Nook Touch is hardly news, but the fact that it just happens to hit the magical psychological price of $99 warrants a mention. That’s right. The Nook Touch is marked down to $99 with free shipping on B&N.com and on Barnes and Noble’s eBay store. The Nook Touch sells […]
Kindle 4 and Kindle Store Arrive in France at Amazon.fr
It turns out the Kindle coming to France rumor was true. Spot on, in fact. Today Amazon launched the French Kindle Store, complete with a localized version of the Kindle 4 for €99, 35,000 French-language books, hundreds of graphic novels, over 4,000 free classic ebooks, and 825,000 ebooks in English and other languages.
Google eBooks Launches in the UK, It’s About Bloody Time
Good news for ebook readers in the UK, Google announced yesterday that they’ve expanded their ebook store to the United Kingdom, making available several hundred thousand ebooks from major UK publishers like Random House, Hachette, and Penguin, not to mention Google’s two million free public domain ebooks. Google uses EPUB and PDF for their ebooks, […]
Kindle 4 Review
Kindle 4 Review » Pros Lowest priced E Ink ebook reader Solid build quality, nice design, good ergonomics Fast page turns, partial page refresh setting Set device language, dictionaries Access to Amazon’s large library of ebooks and periodicals, plus free library ebooks now too Cons No audio support means no music, audiobooks, or text-to-speech Lots […]
How To Remove Ads From Kindle 4 with Special Offers
So it turns out that getting rid of the advertisements and special offers on the Kindle 4 is as easy as giving Amazon $30. That’s right. If you happened to purchase a Kindle 4 with Special Offers for $79, you can pay the difference for the non-ad version, which is $109, after the fact if […]
Nextbook Premium 8 Android Tablet With Android 2.3 and Kobo eBooks
E Fun, makers of the Nextbook line of ereader-based tablets, announced the Nextbook Premium 8 yesterday, an 8-inch Android 2.3 tablet that ties in with the Kobo eBookstore. The Nextbook Premium 8 has an 8″ capacitive touchscreen and is powered by a Rockchip RK2918 processor, which I believe is a single core processor that runs […]
Kindle 4 Working Games and Active Content List
If you saw my Kindle 4 video review and first impressions, you know that not all Kindle apps work on a Kindle 4. The fact that it lacks a physical keyboard and has less RAM than the Kindle 3 leaves a good share of the Active Content out. Purchased apps for earlier Kindles—Kindle Keyboard, Kindle […]