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PocketBook Era has a 7 inch E Ink display, built-in speaker and text-to-speech support

by Brad Linder 2 Comments on PocketBook Era has a 7 inch E Ink display, built-in speaker and text-to-speech support

The new PocketBook Era is an eBook reader with a 7 inch, 1264 x 1680 pixel E Ink Carta 1200  display, a frontlight with adjustable color temperatures, and a 1,700 mAh (6.29 Wh) battery. It’s a waterproof device with an IPX8 rating. And it’s got one feature that’s increasingly uncommon in the eReader space: a built-in […]

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Onyx BOOX Poke4 Lite eReader with Android 11 now available for $150

by Brad Linder 5 Comments on Onyx BOOX Poke4 Lite eReader with Android 11 now available for $150

The new Onyx BOOX Poke4 Lite  is an eBook reader with a 6 inch E Ink touchscreen display, a front light with adjustable color temperature, a quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM and 16GB of built-in storage. It’s powered by Android 11 software with a custom user interface designed for Onyx BOOX eReaders. We first heard about […]

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Lilbits: The $219 Pinebook Pro Linux laptop returns, GNOME is becoming more mobile-friendly, and Google Pixel 7 prototypes in the wild

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It’s been a few years since Pine64 began shipping the PineBook Pro laptop to customers looking for a cheap, Linux-friendly notebook with an ARM-based processor. But due to global supply chain issues, it’s been out of stock at the Pine64 Store for most of the past year. Now it’s coming back and should be available […]

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Onyx BOOX Note Air2 Plus is 10.3 inch E Ink tablet with Android 11 and pen support

by Brad Linder 2 Comments on Onyx BOOX Note Air2 Plus is 10.3 inch E Ink tablet with Android 11 and pen support

The Onyx BOOX Note Air2 Plus features a 10.3 inch E Ink touchscreen display, support for pressure-sensitive pen input, and an operating system based on Android 11. While it would be easy to think of it as a big, expensive eBook reader, with a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage, I […]

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Amazon is pulling the plug on the Kindle Store for older Kindle eReaders

by Brad Linder 9 Comments on Amazon is pulling the plug on the Kindle Store for older Kindle eReaders

Amazon’s Kindle line of devices are designed first and foremost for reading eBooks. But you can also use them to buy eBooks thanks to integration with the Kindle Store. Amazon has certainly gone out of its way to put that store front and center in recent Kindle software updates. Now Amazon has announced that it’s ending Kindle […]

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Xiaomi InkPalm 5.2″ eReader is available worldwide for around $110 and up

by Brad Linder 8 Comments on Xiaomi InkPalm 5.2″ eReader is available worldwide for around $110 and up

Xiaomi’s InkPalm 5 is a pocket-sized device with a 5.2 inch E Ink display and Android-based software. Basically it’s an eReader that’s small enough to fit in your pocket and versatile enough to use for more than just reading eBooks. When the InkPalm 5 launched last year, it was available exclusively in China for around […]

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Amazon Kindles now support EPUB books (sort of), but MOBI and AZW support is ending in 2022

by Brad Linder 9 Comments on Amazon Kindles now support EPUB books (sort of), but MOBI and AZW support is ending in 2022

Amazon may be put its own eBook store front and center in the software that runs on the company’s Kindle eReaders, but you can also use a Kindle device or Amazon’s Kindle apps to read text documents, eBooks, or other files from other sources. The Kindle Personal Documents service lets you send TXT, HTML, DOC, […]