When Amazon announced the new Kindle a few weeks back, one of the features mentioned in the footnotes was that the new device would have the option to filter...
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Category: e-Reading Tech
Dasung is About to Launch a New E-ink Monitor With Touchscreen and a Frontlight
The Chinese e-ink monitor maker Dasung is getting ready to launch its latest Paperlike model. This time they will be going all out and will be putting both a...
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Four Chrome Extensions for Getting the Most Out of Kindle Cloud Reader
When was the last time you used Amazon's cloud reading app? Did you know there were third-party extensions for it? I was updating the Kindle tools posts a few...
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New Nook eReader Clears the FCC
Why oh why couldn't this next story have come across my desk last Monday; it would have added an extra level of detail to the joke about Author Solutions....
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Google Play Books 5.1.9 Adds Audiobook Download Quality Settings, Custom Skip Duration Settings
When Google started selling audiobooks last January, the Play Books Android app made the experience so frustrating that only masochists would try it more than twice. Google has slowly...
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Amazon Releases New Kindle Firmware Update – But Only For the 2018 Kindle Paperwhite
When Amazon launched the new entry-level Kindle (2019) a couple weeks ago, the press release mentioned that the new device would let you sort your library by read and...
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Kindle Voyage is On Sale at Woot – $129, New
Reports of the Kindle Voyage's retirement have been greatly exaggerated. Woot has the Kindle Voyage on sale today for $129 These are reportedly new units, and like the last...
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Large eReader Roundup (March 2019)
Amazon may balk at releasing a Kindle with anything larger than a 7" screen, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t any other options for large screen ereaders out...
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3D-Printed Case + Raspberry Pi + Inky wHat Screen Equals World’s Cutest E-ink Display (video)
Hardware/software developer @printminion has just shared a few photos and a video for his latest project. he's created a 3d-printed case to wrap around a Raspberry Pi and a...
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Kindle (2019) Has a Frontlight, Costs $89, and is a Terrible Value
Amazon launched their newest Kindle today, and it looks like this is going to be their biggest mistake since the Kindle Voyage. The new Kindle gains a frontlight (at...
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JellyBooks Launches a Cloud Reader
The reader analytics firm JellyBooks has quietly launched a new cloud Reader app for the web browser. It is based on Readium 2, I am told, and supports English,...
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iPad Mini (2019) Features Pencil Support, A12 Bionic CPU, Costs $399 and Up
On Monday Apple announced the 5th-gen iPad Mini. The 2019 received a much needed specs boost; it now runs on the same A12 Bionic chip found in the new...
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Apple’s New iPad Air Costs $499, Sports a 10.5″ Screen
Apple disappointed analysts in their recent quarterly report, and today they responded in their usual fashion. They launched a new tablet model. The new iPad Air is a 10.5"...
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Walmart is Planning to Launch Its Own Budget Android Tablet
An FCC filing has revealed, and Walmart has confirmed to Bloomberg, that the world's largest retailer is getting ready to launch a budget tablet under its ONN brand. According...
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Amazon Knocks the Basic Kindle Down to $49 (No Adverts)
We are smack dab in the middle of a sale on the Kindle Paperwhite ($99) and Amazon has apparently decided that two sales are better than one. They have...
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