It’s no secret that Amazon is working on its next-generation Kindle devices. The company tends to put out at least one product refresh per year, and we’ve already heard rumors that we could see an E Ink Kindle with a front-lit display and a larger Kindle Fire Android tablet this year. Now Reuters has a few more details on the…
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It’s official. Barnes & Noble will be one of the first companies to offer an E Ink eBook reader with a front-lit screen for reading in the dark, eliminating the need for a book light. The NOOK Simple Touch with GlowLight is available for pre-order now for $139. It will be available in stores on May 1st. The announcement comes…
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It looks like the future is bright for E Ink eBook readers. Literally. Just a few days after reports of a new Kindle with a front-lit screen started making the rounds, Nate at The Digital Reader snagged a picture of a new NOOK Simple Touch eBook reader with a front-lit display. Update: The NOOK Simple Touch with GlowLight is now available…
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Amazon currently offers a range of Kindle devices. If you want one with a color screen you can get the Kindle Fire. Want a keyboard? There’s the Kindle Keyboard. Touchscreen and E Ink? There’s a Kindle Touch for that. You can even get the Kindle DX if you want a large 9.7 inch display and have enough money burning a…
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With a price tag of $599.99, the new jetBook Color Deluxe might be one of the most expensive eReaders available. But it also offers a number of features you won’t find on other devices. The jetBook Color Deluxe has a 9.7 inch, 1600 x 1200 pixel Triton color E Ink display, which makes it one of the few eReaders with…
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Most popular eBook readers on the market today have the same boring screen: a 6 inch, 800 x 600 pixel e-ink display. Sure, it doesn’t use much power and looks great outdoors. But will it bend? I didn’t think so. Enter LG’s new flexible electronic paper display. LG’s new screen is a 6 inch, 1024 x 768 pixel e-ink display….
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The Barnes & Noble NOOK Simple Touch is an eBook reader with a 6 inch E Ink display and a touchscreen. Like most devices with a black and white E Ink display, the NOOK Touch is designed for reading and not much else. While the display can handle text and images, the slow screen refresh rates limits the types of…
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E Ink is a pretty fascinating display technology. Designed for eBook readers, E Ink screens look a lot like ink on paper. But there’s a down side – most eReaders have slow screen refresh rates which means you can’t use them for video or even smooth scrolling in web browser or other applications. That’s not usually a problem, because most…
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The Amazon Kindle Touch is a $99 eBook Reader with an E Ink display and support for touch input. For the most part you use touch to flip pages in books, type on an on-screen keyboard, or navigate through menus or web pages. But game developer Puzzazz has another idea. The company has developed a new technology it calls TouchWrite…
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At first glance it’s hard to tell the Bookeen Cybook Odyssey apart from any other eBook reader with a touchscreen E Ink display. But the Odyssey has a faster processor than most eReaders and that lets the device refresh the screen much more quickly. The slo sceen refresh rate we usually associate with E Ink is at least partially due…
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The Ectacto JetBook is one of the first eBook readers with a color E Ink display. Basically it has a standard E Ink display with a filter on top which adds color without using much more energy than a grayscale E Ink screen. In other words, battery life is measured in weeks rather than hours. Colors aren’t all that vivid…
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The Sony PRS-T1 is an eBook reader with a 6 inch E Ink touchscreen display. It’s designed to run Sony’s Reader software for reading digital books — but the device’s firmware is based on Google Android and it turns out that the PRS-T1 can be hacked to run additional Android apps. One hacker has managed to add an app launcher,…
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