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A Journey into the Darknet

23 March, 201010 September, 2016EditorialsLeave a comment

Darknet – colloquial term for websites where one might find pirated content Reposted with permission from the author Ok, so I have been a pretty staunch...

Review: Delstar Openbook E-reader

23 March, 20101 September, 2016Reviews20 Comments

I have been on the hunt for a small color dedicated ebook device for quite some time. When I saw a Sunday ad that Walgreens was...

Pocketbook 302 Review, pt 2

16 March, 20109 May, 2017Reviews2 Comments

The Pocketbook 302 is just coming on to the market, and I was lucky enough to get one of the first review units. This is part...

Kindle not all that great as a Digital Textbook

16 March, 20105 May, 2017e-Reading Hardware4 Comments

The Financial Times had an article yesterday on the Kindle textbook pilot projects. I already knew most of the details just from my personal experiences, but...

The Pocketbook 360 eReader – Lean, Light, Beautiful and Blazing Fast

12 March, 20109 May, 2017Reviews4 Comments

By Roger Pelizzari Ebook readers have been arriving in ever greater tidal waves over the past few years, some loaded with features, others barely able to...

Reading on an Android Tablet

4 March, 201015 November, 2019Reviews9 Comments

I’m in the middle of writing a review of the Archos 5. Becuase the review was rather long, I decided to post this section by itself....

Pocketbook 302 Review, pt 1 (hands on video)

1 March, 20101 September, 2016Reviews12 Comments

I got one of the first PB302 while I was at the O’Reilly conference last week. I’m going to follow my usual pattern of posting my...

Hanvon N516 review part 2

8 February, 20101 September, 2016Reviews5 Comments

You may recall from the first part of this review that I bricked my N516 while trying to install a firmware update. I got the replacement...

Iceberg Reader

8 February, 20101 September, 2016ReviewsOne Comment

I downloaded 2 apps for this review: the Iceberg Bookshelf (which came with an excerpt) and a standalone app for a series called “Gossip Girls”. The...