A few days ago I posted an updated version of a guide to hacking the white Novel Android tablet. Since then I’ve been working on hacking the black Novel, and I’m ready to explain how to hack it. TBH, I don’t think you should. The black Novel runs Android v1.5., which is a rather old [...]
Entries from November 19th, 2010
How to hack your (black) Pandigital Novel
November 19th, 2010 · 139 Comments · tips and tricks
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Amazon Kindle Store the first major bookstore to offer eBook gifting
November 19th, 2010 · 4 Comments · press release
Well it looks like Kobo didn’t beat Amazon after all. (The Kobo program isn’t live yet.) From the press release: Kindle is the most gifted item in the history of Amazon.com and millions of people around the world are reading Kindle Books on Kindle devices and free Kindle apps. Beginning today, just in time for [...]
Tags:Amazon·bookstore·ebook·gifting·kindle·major·offer·store
Narnia + cloud computing
November 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment · humor
Randall Munroe of XKCD is taking a sabbatical from the comic strip, and he’s been posting various rough sketches from his notebooks. This little drawing came up today. The Narnia reference and the computers pretty much guaranteed I was going to repost it.
Viewsonic VEB 620 gets a price drop
November 18th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
One of my regular readers just sent me a link to an UK wbe retailer who are selling the VEB 620B at 129.99£ (~$206). The VEB 620 is a basic e-reader with a 6″ Eink screen, 2GB Flash, SD card slot, and support for Adobe DE DRM. It does not have Wifi or a touch [...]
New Ebook Cheat Sheet for Librarians
November 18th, 2010 · 3 Comments · digital library
One of the blogs I follow is by Matt Phillips, a librarian in Henrico County, Virginia. Today he posted a link to the ebook cheat sheet he made for his fellow librarians: I was asked a few weeks ago to create a cheat sheet for eBooks so our staff could have something to reference and [...]
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Adobe Reader X now available
November 18th, 2010 · No Comments · software news
From the announcement: Adobe Reader X is now available! Download Reader X for desktop at http://get.adobe.com/reader/ or access the mobile app on the Android Market via your Android device. With over one billion downloads, Adobe Reader continues its leadership as the global standard in PDF viewing and interaction. Reader X for desktop enables an even [...]
Adobe Reader Mobile 9.2 update now available (to everyone who aren’t B&N)
November 18th, 2010 · 3 Comments · software news
I’m surprised that I’m the only one who noticed this. Adobe just announced today that the latest update of the RM SDK is now available to all developers. This means that finally e-reader manufacturers ebookstores besides B&N can use sell the password protected Epub: Today, Adobe has released an update to our Digital Publishing Solution [...]
The best argument yet for a tablet as a textbook?
November 18th, 2010 · No Comments · video
MobyLives found this video from the NY Times. They called it the best argument for tablets as a textbook platform, but I’m not sure I agree. A lot of very expensive development time went into making the animation, and I’m not convinced it’s worth the expense to integrate it into a textbook.
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Google Books now in talks with UK publishers
November 18th, 2010 · No Comments · publishing news
You may have read the post in The Bookseller yesterday about how Google Books signed a deal with Hachette Livre to digitize their out of print backlist: Hachette Livre has come to an agreement with Google that will see the giant search engine digitise the publisher’s out of print books in France, bringing to an [...]
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