Items tagged with E-reader
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Jul 25, 2025
It's been a little over nine months since Amazon introduced its first Kindle e-reader with a color display, the Kindle Colorsoft, and now potential buyers have a couple of new versions to consider. One is a more affordable Kindle Colorsoft...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Apr 23, 2025
Are you still lugging around a backpack full of books whenever you travel? Hey, there's something about the feel (and smell) of a physical book that simply can't be duplicated by a e-reader, but on the flip side, e-readers are a heck of a...
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Tim Sweezy - Tue, Feb 28, 2023
Amazon's newest e-reader has the ability to use a stylus pen, giving users the option to jot down notes, draw, and much more on the device itself. The company has now brought some nifty new features to its Kindle Scribe that aim to bring...
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Tim Sweezy - Thu, Sep 01, 2022
If you are in the market for an eco-friendly eReader, the Kobo Clara 2E may fit the bill. It is Kobo's first eReader to be made with ocean-bound and recycled plastic.
Part of the allure of an eReader is the ability to save on the paper...
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Shane McGlaun - Tue, Oct 16, 2018
Amazon has announced a new iteration of its Kindle Paperwhite e-reader that is changed significantly from the previous generation. The new Paperwhite has a thinner and lighter design with a flush-fitting front display and waterproofing...
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Rob Williams - Sat, Oct 29, 2016
If you're in the market for a new tablet that also doubles as an e-reader, you may want to hold off for just a little bit. Rumors suggest Barnes & Noble will be releasing a new iteration of its NOOK Tablet in the very near future to battle...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Nov 14, 2014
Sharing is caring, right folks? With that in mind, Amazon today announced a new over-the-air (OTA) software update for its Kindle, Kindle Voyage, and Kindle Paperwhite (most recent version) devices that will enable sharing Kindle books...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Nov 14, 2014
We're in the midst of a bad run for mobile devices when it comes to evaluating the level of difficulty in repairing or replacing defective components. Teardown after teardown has shown that mobile device makers are infatuated with...
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Seth Colaner - Mon, Nov 04, 2013
Now that the FAA has relaxed some of the rules for devices that passengers aboard commercial flights can use during takeoff and landing, ereader users everywhere can rejoice and also squeeze in some extra reading time on flights instead of...
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Seth Colaner - Fri, Nov 01, 2013
Barnes & Noble was expected to launch a new ereader in October, and the company managed to slip its new 6-inch Nook GlowLight in just under the wire. Launched in time for the holiday sales push, the ereader is designed to compete with...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Sep 03, 2013
Amazon may have inadvertently let the cat out of the bag about its new model Kindle Paperwhite. Prior to any official announcement, a user on a Croatian web forum noticed that Amazon listed the second generation Kindle Paperwhite device on...
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Ray Willington - Sun, Jul 21, 2013
It's easy to view the overall decline in the print newspaper business, coupled with the surge in e-reader and tablet ownership, as a death knell for paper books. After all, the printed word has been around for so long, that surely it must...
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Ray Willington - Tue, Apr 16, 2013
While the e-reader market isn't exactly exploding in the way smartphones are, there are still plenty to go around -- and plenty of demand to be filled. Kobo seems to be doing just fine keeping up with Amazon's Kindle line and B&N's Nook range, and today it's introducing a limited-run unit...
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Ray Willington - Sun, Jan 27, 2013
Libraries may feel like an item of a past era, and books themselves are already starting to feel a little antiquated. It's an Internet-driven world, and e-books are slowly but surely taking the place of many hardcovers. The education world has caught on in the past few years, and many students...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Jan 25, 2013
A market research firm forecasts media tablet shipments around the world will reach 145 million units in 2013. New players, a wider range of lower cost tablets to choose from, and increased interest from business sectors will help media tablets to "continue to take the market by storm," ABI...
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Jennifer Johnson - Wed, Jan 16, 2013
If all goes as planned, Texas could be the home to the nation's first all digital library by the end of this summer. San Antonio's Bexar County will be the home of this book-less public library. The project, referred to as BiblioTech, was announced recently by the Bexar County Commissioners...
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Ray Willington - Sat, Dec 29, 2012
You may not know it by listening to the evening news, but there's something of a silent war ongoing in the education sector. And perhaps not surprisingly, that war involves tablets. Apple held their own live event around 11 months ago just...
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Ray Willington - Wed, Oct 10, 2012
E-readers are a dime a dozen, but they aren't quite a dime in cost. But it's getting close. While e-reader prices overall have been sinking lately, this sets a new bar. A new low bar, that is. The new Txtr Beagle is said to be the world's smallest e-reader, and perhaps the cheapest as well. It...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Aug 30, 2012
Those sneaky Pete's in Amazon's marketing department sent out an announcement this morning stating that the Kindle Fire, the best selling product in the company's inventory since it launched nine months ago, is now sold out. As in, the...
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Ray Willington - Fri, Aug 17, 2012
E-readers seem to be going the way of the netbook. And strangely, it seems that netbooks and e-readers both have a single product segment to blame: tablets. As more and more users found tablets to be a suitable, more portable substitute for netbooks, so have avid bookworms. Instead of...
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Ray Willington - Sun, Aug 05, 2012
The e-paper universe has largely been dominated by once giant force: E Ink. But there was another player, too. That would be SiPix Technology, and its wholly owned subsidiary SiPix Imaging. The company was founded in 1999, but soon, it...
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Seth Colaner - Mon, Jul 23, 2012
Inconspicuously wedged into a typically tedious Q3 earnings report, Qualcomm mentioned that it was going to license its mirasol display technology and would be commercializing only a few products. Specifically, the quote from the report is...
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