Barnes & Noble has been exceedingly quiet on the ebook front since it was acquired two years ago. Once it stopped being a publicly traded company, it no longer announced...Continue reading
Category: e-Reading Tech
E-ink is Now Selling a 31″ Color ePaper Screen for $2,300
Color E-ink screens are expensive, and that is doubly true as the dimensions increase. There’s less of a demand for large screens, which means smaller production runs, and consequently higher...Continue reading
Pocketbook InkPad Color Has a New Kaleido E-ink Screen, Costs $330
The new color ereader I told you about last week now has an official model name. It’s now known as the Pocketbook InkPad Color, and according to what I was...Continue reading
Bigme S3 Sports a 7.8″ Color E-ink Screen, Costs $544
The Pocketbook 740 will be a great color ereader, but it does have one small quirk that some won’t like: It runs a version of Linux. If you want an...Continue reading
Pocketbook 740 Color Sports a 7.8″ Screen, Will Cost Around $300
I was just over at MobileRead, sharing the good news about Kobo’s new ereader, when I found out about the Pocketbook 740. Pocketbook’s third color ereader is going to sport...Continue reading
New Kobo eReader Clears the FCC, Has Bluetooth
Amazon may have put Kindle development on hold for the duration, but Kobo has not. A new Kobo ereader just showed up on the FCC website this morning. All of...Continue reading
Best Buy is Now Using Spectra E-ink Shelf Labels
I was in Best Buy this morning, buying a new laptop when I happened to notice that the store now had digital product labels decorating the shelves. Best Buy has...Continue reading
Dasung is Working on a 25″ E-ink Monitor
Dasung is quietly famous for developing an E-ink monitor with a 13.3″ screen, and over the years they have released new models with incremental improvements. Now they are making a...Continue reading
Netronix Sends 6.8″ eReader Through FCC
Christmas came late this year, but I have a present for you. I just got an email notification that a new ereader cleared the FCC. This ereader was built by...Continue reading
Xiaomi Mi Reader Pro Up For Pre-Order – $168, 7.8″ Screen
The Chinese gadget company Xiaomi has just launched a crowdfunding campaign for their next ereader. The crowdfunding site is in Chinese, with all the text embedded in images, so it...Continue reading
OverDrive Retires the Libby Windows App
I’m sure many people know that OverDrive developed a reading app called Libby about four years ago. What you might not know is that in addition to the Android and...Continue reading
M5Paper is a DIY 4.7″ eReader
A friend just sent me a product listing for a really cool gadget. (Thanks, Steve!) Banggood is now selling an epaper development kit called the M5Paper. It costs $73 and...Continue reading
Amazon Doubles Storage on Basic Kindle, Also Renames it as the 2019 Model
Amazon is sending mixed messages about their cheapest Kindle. On the one hand, they have dropped a hint that it could be replaced soon. On the other hand, they upgraded...Continue reading
Amazon Kindle Oasis Now $175 (for Prime Subscribers)
Today is Prime Day, which is basically a version of Black Friday where Amazon offers deals exclusively to Amazon Prime subscribers. While some of Amazon’s “sales” are fairly run of...Continue reading
Calibre 5.0 Adds Highlighting, Python Update
Calibre just hit a major milestone. The ebook library tool usually gets a maintenance update on Fridays, but today’s update was the 5.0 release. According to the changelog, the two...Continue reading