Google have just quietly added a few little features to Google Books that I’ve been desperately wanting. You can now define translate, and search for words from inside Google Books. I’ve been copy-pasting the translations for a while now, and it was a little frustrating. It’s also going to be nice not to have to [...]
Entries from May 20th, 2011
Throwing more wood on the Kindle Epub fire
May 20th, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware rumors, software rumors
I’ve been asking around about the Kindle Epub rumor and I’ve received a couple interesting responses. I swear that this post isn’t SEO bait or gossip; I really do have some info to share. One of my sources reported hearing mutterings from publishers. They’ve been talking about Amazon and Epub for a little while now, [...]
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Buyer beware
May 20th, 2011 · 1 Comment · opinion
The other day I came across a complaint posted on MobileRead. It seems one e-reader owner happened to buy a Kindle DX at a fleamarket. When he got it home, he learned that it didn’t work, of course, and that’s the problem. He contacted Amazon and it turns out that this was a demo unit [...]
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Try this: TelescopicTexts.org
May 20th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
I’ve been playing with this new website for the past few days and it’s a lot of fun. I’m not sure what it’s good for, but it is fun. TelescopicTexts.org is kinda hard to explain, so I think I’ll send you over to the demo. Click on the word in the gray square and see [...]
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Sony unveiled a new color epaper screen today
May 19th, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware news
Sony unveiled this pretty little thing today at SID Display Week. It’s a product of the Sony DisDevice play Development Group; they’re the one’s who developed Sony’s OLED tech. This is a 13″ flexible, color, epaper display. It has a resolution of 1600 x 1200 and it’s a 4 color (RGBW) display, not 3. There’s [...]
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NEC’s dual screen Android tablet to hit Japan in June
May 19th, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware news
Akihabara News are reporting that NEC plan to released the LT-W Cloud Communicator in Japan some time next month. This tablet is based a pair of 7″ (800×600) resistive touchscreen, and it’s running Android v2.2 on an ARM Cortex A8 CPU. It has Wifi, Bluetooth, a SD card slot, speaker, camera, GPS, accelerometer, a stylus, [...]
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Sany Daily Edition now $199 at Best Buy
May 19th, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware news
Best Buy has Sony’s latest and greatest 7″ e-reader on sale right now. These don’t usually last long so get it now. This is the latest generation Daily Edition with the new touchscreen, Wifi, and 3G. with this price you get hardware that’s comparable to the Nook 3G or kindle 3G plus that spiffy new [...]
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Kindle & Epub is not as impossible as you might think
May 19th, 2011 · 27 Comments · Uncategorized
You might have noticed that the pirates at Goodereader.com posted an implausible story yesterday where they claimed that Amazon might soon offer Epub for the Kindle. Naturally this caught everyone’s attention, and it’s been picked up by a number of blogs, passed around on Twitter, and debated endlessly. I still think it’s crap, but I [...]
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Pixel Qi to unveil 2 new screens at Computex
May 19th, 2011 · 3 Comments · hardware news
Pixel Qi plan to show off new stuff at Computex next month in Taipei. They plan to add a new 10″ display (1280×800 resolution) to their family of sunlight-readable low-power screens. They’re also boasting of a new 7″ (1024×600 resolution) screen, which is obviously the next gen replacement for the current 7″ screen. Pixel Qi’s [...]
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A new twist on the CC license
May 19th, 2011 · No Comments · opinion
Dan Gilmor, author of the journalism textbook/website Mediactive, has recently come up with a new concept for licensing his textbook. Mediactive is usually available under a CC license, but Dan has recently decided to start offering a site license to schools of journalism. It might sound odd that he doesn’t want to give it away [...]
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