Digital books offer a number of advantages over paper books. You can carry around hundreds of books in your pocket. eReaders tend to be thinner and lighter than a hardcover book. And you can search for text, share passages, or jump to any page in an eBook. But there are still a few things that I find tough to do…

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Apple wants to re-invent the textbook for the digital age. The company unveiled iBooks 2 for the iPad today, with support for digital textbooks that make use of nifty new features including video 3D animations, image galleries, and other features that your old physics textbook would scoff at. Digital textbooks are also easier to keep up to date than their…

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Google Books has launched a new feature that lets you download and save books using the Chrome web browser, allowing you to read eBooks even when you don’t have an internet connection. That makes Google Books a heck of a lot useful if you’re one of the handful of people that has a Chromebook, or if you just like reading…

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Amazon has pushed out an updated version of its Kindle app for iOS, and it adds features that had previously only been available on the Kindle Fire tablet and Kindle E Ink devices. Kindle 2.9 for iOS  lets iPad users can now read magazines from the Kindle Store as well as digital reproductions of textbooks. But iPhone and iPod touch…

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Amazon is already shipping the Kindle Fire tablet and tomorrow the Amazon Kindle Touch eBook Reader will begin shipping to customers. The Kindle Fire had been scheduled to start shipping tomorrow, while the Kindle Touch ship date was initially set for next week. The $200 Kindle Fire features a 7 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel color display, a 1 GHz TI…

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Kobo is the latest digital book company to offer an eBook reader for under $100. But while Barnes & Noble simply dropped the price of the NOOK Simple Touch to $99, Kobo is taking a page out of Amazon’s book. Like the Amazon Kindle Touch, the new Kobo Touch will be available for under $100 only if you’re willing to put up…

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Electronic bookseller Kobo is about to be sold to Japanese internet service company Rakuten. The Japanese firm is going to buy all outstanding shares of the company for $315 million. Currently Canadian bookseller Indigo is the largest shareholder. Kobo’s digital book platform allows customers to purchased eBooks on a wide range of devices in a number of countries around the…

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Nate at The Digital Reader hears that Barnes & Noble will hold an event on November 7th, and that the company could be ready to unveil its next-generation NOOK Color. Meanwhile, Microsoft is holding a Windows Phone event on November 7th. Coincidence? Man, I hope so. Seriously, I know Nokia generated a lot of excitement by dropping Symbian and launching…

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It’s a good day to be in the market for a cheap eBook Reader. Daily Steals is selling refurbished NOOK Colors for $135 today and if you’re really looking for a bargain, you can grab a Delstar eReader with an LCD display for just $40 — although I suspect you’ll get what you pay for on that one. The best…

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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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The HP TouchPad tablet may have been discontinued, but developers continue to write apps for the platform. In fact, there are now 1000 apps for the TouchPad, which isn’t bad since there are still fewer than 10,000 apps for webOS smartphones. Like a lot of people I picked up a tablet for $99 when they were still available at fire-sale…

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Barnes & Noble launched one first. This week Amazon followed suit. Now Kobo wants in on the action. The digital bookstore is launching a color eBook Reader with a 7 inch display and Google Android operating system. The Kobo Vox showed up briefly on Canadian electronics store Future Shop’s website. The page has been removed, but MobileRead forum member mighty_worm…

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