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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Category: Reviews
Two Years In and Kobo is Still Missing the Mark on its Color-Changing Frontlight
With the Clara HD leaking yet again in advance of tomorrow's announcement, the launch is now less breaking news than fait accompli. I don't know that I will be...
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Authors Are Taking Friendly Fire in Amazon’s War on Fake Reviews
Amazon has been fighting fake reviews since at least 2012. They have deleted scads of reviews, banned paid reviews, filed suit against several batches of fake review perpetrators, and even...
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New Rule: You Have to Have Spent $50 (Minimum) to Post a Review at Amazon
Any system that is important enough to be measured is going to be gamed by cheaters, and Amazon's reviews section is no exception to that rule. Amazon has fought...
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The Dasung Paperlike Pro E-ink Monitor is What Every Author Needs
Stare at a computer screen everyday for years on end and eventually you're going to develop vision problems. It might be headaches, or simply an inability to keep both...
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Remarkable E-ink Writing Slate Reviews – Great Tablet, But Not Ready for Prime Time
If that early buzz for the $600 Remarkable tablet had you wishing that you had gotten in on the early pre-orders, I have good news for you: It's not ready...
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James Patterson’s “The Store” Takes Aim at Amazon, and Misses
When the latest James Patterson-branded book came out last month, it got a lot of press attention for its choice of villain. The Store featured a thinly veiled Amazon as the...
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Negative Reviews are a Public Service, Not a Blight
There's a solid minority of the book community that believes one should never be publicly critical of a book. That's the view of one book reviewer I met at a...
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I’m Breaking Up With Grammarly
I have just canceled my subscription to Grammarly's writing tool, and after having sent a ranty email to Grammarly's PR rep I thought it would be helpful to share my...
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OverDrive is Beta-Testing a New eBook App, Libby
OverDrive is the leading vendor for library ebooks, and you can read ebooks checked out through OD on your Android or iOS Device, the Aura One, or a Kindle...
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Amazon Has Instituted a Cap on Product Reviews
Amazon has enacted another restriction on how and what gets posted in the review section on its site. Earlier this week Amazon sent out an email to the more...
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The Real Story: Amazon Bans Free Review Samples Which Compete With Its Amazon Vine Program
Many sites are reporting that Amazon is banning the dastardly practice of giving away free samples in exchange for reviews, but they are missing about two-thirds of the story....
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Kobo Aura One & Kindle Paperwhite: Frontlight Comparison
The Kobo Aura One is both Kobo's largest and most expensive ereader, and thanks to its frontlight it is arguably the best on the market. Few are touting this fact,...
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Review Round-Up: Kobo Aura One
The new Kobo Aura One went up for pre-order yesterday, and according to some reports on MobileRead it has already started to arrive. But not everyone has made up...
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Kobo Aura One as a PDF eReader: No, Just No (video)
Yesterday I posted a review video of the Kobo Aura One, and after watching it for myself I realized that it didn't adequately convey just how poorly the Aura...
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