Charbax caught up with Onyx at the Frankfurt Book Fair, where they showed off several of their ereaders. The Onyx Boox Nova is a 7.8" E-ink ereader with edge-to-edge glass...
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Category: e-Reading Hardware
Tolino Re-Brands the Kobo Clara HD as the New Shine 3
It has been just over a year since Kobo became the technical partner for the Tolino brand, and the two companies are now buying their hardware from the same...
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Ten-Inch B&N Nook Tablet Clears the FCC
Barnes & Noble's next Android tablet is going to be a rebranded budget model from a Chinese OEM called Jingwah Information Technology Most of the details have been embargoed until...
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Do You Carry Your eReader Naked?
Yesterday's arrival of a Kobo Forma review unit got me thinking about cases. The review unit did not come with a case, which is a shame because I prefer...
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Kobo Forma Sports an 8″ Screen, Will Cost $279
When UPS told me yesterday that I was getting a shipment from Toronto some time today, I was thrilled to find out that I'd be getting the new Kobo...
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The Freewrite Traveler is the True Spiritual Successor to the Alphasmart Neo
Over the past several years I have written about several E-ink laptop concepts that might one day make good writing tools. None have gotten past the concept stage (not...
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Kobo Forma is a Kindle Oasis Clone, Will Ship on 16 October
It seems Kobo wasn't too happy at the absolute secrecy surrounding its new ereader, so it decided to fix that situation by leaking a product render of its next...
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Dasung Launches the Nixon of eReaders (video)
The Chinese E-ink monitor company Dasung is branching out into ereaders. They first teased this development in late 2016, but today Dasung made it official. They've sent me a...
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Fire Tablets and Kindles Now $15 to $40 Off (Prime Members Only)
Amazon is throwing another of its periodic sales on its hardware, and once again, the deals are for Amazon Prime members only. Both the Kindle and Kindle Paperwhite...
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InkBook Lumos Review: Buy Something Else
For the first time in a very long while, a new review unit has crossed my desk. Update: This post combines both an introduction and first look, as well...
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PocketBook Touch Lux 4
PocketBook's other new ereader for fall 2018 is the Touch Lux 4, an ereader whose specs place it between the basic Kindle and Paperwhite. This is a slightly more powerful...
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PocketBook Basic Lux 2 is a Basic Kindle Competitor
The Ukrainian ereader maker Pocketbook just announced a couple new ereaders for fall 2018. One of the devices, the Basic Lux 2, looks like it is intended to compete with...
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Inkbook Prime Updated With 300 PPI Screen, Color-Shifting Frontlight
Amazon may be happy to keep selling the four-year-old Kindle Voyage but the same is not true for its smaller competitors. The Polish ereader importer ArtaTech has updated its...
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Kindle Voyage Now Available Again on Amazon.com
Reports of the Kindle Voyage's death have been greatly exaggerated. This four-year-old ereader had been removed from the menus on Amazon's site a few weeks ago after it went out...
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Icarus Illumina XL6 Features a 7.8″ Screen, Octacore CPU, Ships Next Month for 268 Euros
When I scooped my competition with the news of the Likebook Mars Android ereader earlier this week, the two questions everyone was asking were when could we buy it, and...
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