I saw the following video last week and I’ve been thinking about it for a while. The video is a rant by Sarah Houghton of the Librarian in Black blog. She’s pissed over the manner in which Amazon and OverDrive set up the Kindle library ebooks. FYI: If you check out an ebook on your [...]
Entries from October 23rd, 2011
Kalahari.com to Launch Gobii Wifi – a 7″ Android Tablet
October 23rd, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware news
Kalahari.com, South Africa’s answer to Amazon, announced earlier this week that they were about to launch a new e-reader/Android tablet. I don’t have all the details on the Gobii Wifi, but I do know that it’s a 7″ Android tablet with Wifi, 4GB Flash storage, a microSD card slot, and a speaker. It also has [...]
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WirelessEdTech Conference (Pt 2)
October 23rd, 2011 · 2 Comments · conferences & trade shows
This is part 2 of my coverage of WirelessEdTech 2011, a conference I attended in DC on 21 October. Part 1 can be fond here. – The afternoon was broken up into multiple sessions, and while I didn’t attend all of them (they weren’t interesting or relevant to this blog) I did attend a couple. [...]
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No One Talked E-readers at the WirelessEdTech Conference (Pt 1)
October 23rd, 2011 · 2 Comments · conferences & trade shows
This past Thursday found me up in DC. I took the commuter bus up for the day so I could attend a conference. You can probably guess the topics covered by WirelessEdTech 2011 from the name, and while it didn’t have much that was relevant for TDR I did pick up some interesting bits and [...]
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Sony Reader Wifi Hacked – Now Runs Kindle, ezPDF, and more (video)
October 23rd, 2011 · 76 Comments · hardware news, video
It looks like I jumped the gun yesterday when I announced a new hack for the Sony Reader. Last night the developer released a new version of the hack which added a bunch of new functionality. Most importantly, the update finally let me install new apps. It’s been just over a week since the first [...]
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Daily Deal: HP Touch Pad for $240 – Eh
October 23rd, 2011 · No Comments · Daily deals
It looks like the HP TouchPad clearance madness isn’t quite over with just yet. One of the daily deals websites have somehow gotten their hands on the last remaining stock of the HP TouchPad. Daily Steals have the 32GB Wifi model on sale today, new and in the retail box. It doesn’t come with any [...]
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Review: Onyx Boox M90
October 22nd, 2011 · 6 Comments · hardware reviews
At long last, I have finally put my hands on the Onyx Boox M90. It was not worth the wait. This is Onyx’s first large screen ebook reader, and it debuted at CES 2011. I’ve had this review unit for just under a week, and I’d strongly suggest that Onyx pull it from the market [...]
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Sony Reader T1 Hack Now Available
October 22nd, 2011 · 6 Comments · hardware news
Last week I was the first to find out that the Sony Reader T1 had been hacked (video), and today I am the first user to have a hacked T2 in my possession. Early this morning I went out and bought a T1 just because of the hack. I’m still playing with it, and it [...]
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Weekly Round Up 22 October 2011
October 22nd, 2011 · No Comments · Round up
It’s been another surprising week here at TDR, folks, what with the Kobo Vox launch, the Nook price cuts, and so on. But the biggest surprise is about to come. Normally I’d write more about what posts were popular and why, but need to get back to writing another post on the Sony Reader T1 [...]
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GreenBook to Launch EZRead Touch – 6″ E-ink Screen, $95
October 21st, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news
Taiwan’s native e-reader maker Netronix has just announced a new ebook reader. They’ll be releasing the EZRead Touch under GreenBook, their consumer brand. This is their latest design, and it’s based on a 6″ Pearl E-ink screen. it also has Wifi, a capacitive touch screen, 2GB Flash, and SD card slot, but there’s not much [...]
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