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New Amazon Kindle Fire Tablet Clears the FCC

16 July, 201916 July, 2019e-Reading Hardware, Fire3 Comments

If you are thinking of buying a Kindle Fire HD 8 or HD 10 tablet in today's Amazon Prime sale then you might want to reconsider....

Kindle Deals

15 July, 201915 July, 2019e-Reading Hardware, KindleOne Comment

Amazon's Prime day deals may only be for Prime subscribers, but they're not the only deals the retailer is offering right now. Over on Woot Amazon...

Amazon Prime Day Kindle Deals Are Now Live –

14 July, 201914 July, 2019e-Reading Hardware, Fire, KindleLeave a comment

Amazon Prime day doesn't officially start for another few hours but the Kindle and Fire deals are already live. If you have an Amazon Prime subscription you...

Kindle Firmware Update 5.12.1 Released

9 July, 20199 July, 2019e-Reading Hardware, KindleLeave a comment

Amazon rolled out another firmware update for its Kindle ereaders yesterday. The affected models include all new Kindles as well as older units as far back...

Your Next Kindle Could be Made in Vietnam

5 July, 20197 July, 2019Amazon, e-Reading Hardware

Trump's trade war isn't just killing American jobs and costing you more in the pocketbook; it's also killing jobs in other countries as well. The Nikkei...

MooInk Pro 10.3″ eReader is a Sony DPT-CP1 Clone

2 July, 20193 July, 2019e-Reading Hardware2 Comments

As you may know, Sony's DPT-CP1 10.3" writing slate runs Sony software on hardware designed and built by the Taiwanese ereader maker, Netronix (we found this...

Waterfi Has Shut Down

26 June, 20193 July, 2019e-Reading HardwareLeave a comment

I was in the middle of updating my post on waterproof ereaders earlier today when I discovered that one of the companies mentioned in the post,...

Waterproof eReaders Currently on the Market (Updated)

26 June, 201927 June, 2019e-Reading Hardware, Kindle5 Comments

Amazon has popularized waterproof ereaders, but they are far from the first company to release one. Over the past 5 years quite a few ereaders have...

New Kindle Oasis Has a Color-Changing Frontlight (Yawn)

19 June, 201919 June, 2019e-Reading Hardware, Kindle17 Comments

Last month's FCC filing kept us all looking for a new Fire tablet, when we should have been keeping an eye out for a new Kindle....

BenQ’s New Monitors have an “ePaper” Mode, or so the Marketing Fluff Claims

16 June, 201916 June, 2019e-Reading HardwareLeave a comment

Remember Pixel Qi? This was a niche screen tech that was spun off from the OLPC project. It had a unique dual-mode LCD screen tech which offered...

Likebook Alita has 4GB RAM, 10.3″ Carta E-ink Screen

10 June, 201910 June, 2019e-Reading Hardware11 Comments

Boyue just sent me their next 10.3" ereader. It's called the Likebook Alita, and it has gotten this burned-out blogger excited about ereaders again. The Likebook...