Reviews

Two Years In and Kobo is Still Missing the Mark on its Color-Changing Frontlight

28 May, 2018 // 28 Comments

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 writing much about the Clara HD; aside [Read More ...]

Authors Are Taking Friendly Fire in Amazon’s War on Fake Reviews

12 May, 2018 // 7 Comments

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 forbidden [Read More ...]

New Rule: You Have to Have Spent $50 (Minimum) to Post a Review at Amazon

10 December, 2017 // 16 Comments

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 back by suing over fake reviews, [Read More ...]

The Dasung Paperlike Pro E-ink Monitor is What Every Author Needs

25 September, 2017 // 16 Comments

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 eyes in focus. That is exactly [Read More ...]

Remarkable E-ink Writing Slate Reviews – Great Tablet, But Not Ready for Prime Time

17 September, 2017 // 3 Comments

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 yet. A handful of reviews were posted on [Read More ...]

James Patterson’s “The Store” Takes Aim at Amazon, and Misses

12 September, 2017 // 16 Comments

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 world's largest [Read More ...]

Negative Reviews are a Public Service, Not a Blight

14 June, 2017 // 10 Comments

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 writing club meeting on Saturday, and [Read More ...]

I’m Breaking Up With Grammarly

4 May, 2017 // 31 Comments

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 criticism of the service. If you [Read More ...]

OverDrive is Beta-Testing a New eBook App, Libby

19 December, 2016 // 7 Comments

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 (if you're in the US). Now readers have a [Read More ...]

Amazon Has Instituted a Cap on Product Reviews

25 November, 2016 // 12 Comments

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 prolific reviewers with the news that they [Read More ...]

The Real Story: Amazon Bans Free Review Samples Which Compete With Its Amazon Vine Program

3 October, 2016 // 11 Comments

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. This is about [Read More ...]

Kobo Aura One & Kindle Paperwhite: Frontlight Comparison

4 September, 2016 // 16 Comments

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, but the Aura One has 17 LEDs [Read More ...]

Review Round-Up: Kobo Aura One

31 August, 2016 // 7 Comments

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 their mind about buying this 7.8" [Read More ...]

Kobo Aura One as a PDF eReader: No, Just No (video)

31 August, 2016 // 18 Comments

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 One handled PDFs. And so I made my [Read More ...]

New Kindle’s Accessibility Features Found Lacking in First In-Depth Review

29 August, 2016 // 3 Comments

When I reviewed the new basic Kindle's accessibility features back in July, I found it to be completely useless at its intended function. There wasn't a single part, from the instructions to the [Read More ...]

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