PocketBook will showcase 6 new eBook Readers at CES in January. Five of them will have the usual E Ink displays, but the most interesting new model is called the PocketBook Mirasol, and it has… you guessed it, a Qualcomm Mirasol display. The Mirasol screens have some of the properties of E Ink. You can […]
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Asus Eee Note EA800 gets official
It looks like Asus finally got around to giving its upcoming device for reading eBooks and taking notes a sensible name. Goodbye Eee Tablet, hello Eee Note. The Eee Note EA800 has an 8 inch, 768 x 1024 pixel grayscale display. The Wacam touchscreen works with a stylus and can handle 256 levels of pressure […]
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Hands-on with the Barnes & Noble NOOKcolor
I got a chance to check out the Barnes & Noble NOOKcolor as well as an upcoming software update for the original Nook eReader with an E Ink display. The software update will bring 50% faster page turns, as well as support for synchronizing your last page read across all your Nook devices (including mobile […]
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Entourage Pocket Edge up for pre-order for $400
The Entourage Pocket Edge is a combination eBook reader and Android tablet… but while that might bring to mind a device that looks like the new Barnes & Noble NOOKcolor, with a single LCD display that you can use to surf the web, run apps, or read eBooks, the Pocket Edge is something different: A […]
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Sharp positions its new eBook reader as an iPad competitor
The lines between eBook readers and tablet computers are getting thinner by the day. Companies like Pandigital are pumping out eBook readers with color displays that are basically Android tablets designed primarily to run eBook apps. And companies such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble keep adding functions to their dedicated eBook readers such as […]
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EnTourage eDGe tablet/eReader rooted — does this make it any more useful?
The EnTourage eDGe is one of the most intriguing Android devices to hit the market this year. It’s a dual screen device running Google Android. But while one screen is a normal LCD touchscreen display, the other is an e Ink screen meant for reading digital books. The whole thing looks more like a netbook […]
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Barnes & Noble introduces NOOKstudy eBook software for textbooks, notes
The market for digital book readers is heating up, as is the demand (and supply) of digital books including all sorts of works of fiction and non-fiction. But one eBook market that’s still stuck in the “great potential” stage is the education market. Textbooks cost a lot of money, partially due to their limited printing […]
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Sony developing a netbook, game console, eReader hybrid?
The Apple iPad has already shown that people are perfectly happy to read eBooks and play video games on the same device that they use to surf the web. But that doesn’t necessarily have to be a tablet. At least that’s what Sony appears to be hoping. The Wall Street Journal reports that “people familiar […]
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Amazon Kindle app for Android is now available
Google Android is officially becoming a decent platform for anyone who likes to read eBooks on their phones and other mobile devices. Last week Kobo released an Android app that basically lets you download and read any title that Borders sells in its eBook store. And today Amazon finally got around to releasing a Kindle […]
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Acer LumiRead eBook reader to ship with Opera web browser
Digital book readers with E Ink displays aren’t really ideal devices for surfing the web. E Ink is known for its slow page refresh rates, which makes dynamic content like video impossible to view. But that doesn’t mean you can’t surf the web on an eBook Reader. After all, a growing number of these portable […]
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Asus bundles Amazon Kindle software with select netbooks, notebooks
Asus and Amazon have announced that some Asus netbooks and notebooks will ship with Amazon’s Kindle eBook software for PC. The software makes it easy to find, purchase, and download eBooks from the Amazon Kindle store and read them on a computer. Of course, the news isn’t really that exciting, since Amazon’s Kindle software is […]
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eBook readers continue slide toward tablethood: Social Networking on the Kindle
Devices with e-Ink displays that take a second or two to refresh are never going to replace full color screens capable of handling video playback and dynamic web content. But while smartphones and tablets like the Apple iPad are becoming serviceable eBook readers thanks to software such as iBooks and the Amazon Kindle Reader, dedicated […]