Amazon rolled out an update today for the Kindle 3. Much to my surprise, Amazon gave the year-old K3 support for the newly launched Kindle Cloud. The Kindle Cloud is the term I thought up for the online space Amazon will give you to store your personal Kindle ebooks. It’s 5GB, and everything you email [...]
Entries from October 14th, 2011
Kindle Apps to get Kindle Cloud Support This Year
October 14th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Amazon, ebookstore news
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First Look at the new Onyx Boox i62 (video)
October 14th, 2011 · 4 Comments · hardware news, video
Earlier this week I was the first to find Onyx’s new ebook reader, the i62. I’ve now heard that Onyx are just now working the bugs out if the prototype. There’s still no word yet on the release date. The following video shows the i62 mounted in the case used by the Boox A60. That’s [...]
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Daily Deal: Sony Reader PRS-350 now $85
October 14th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Daily deals
Sony decided to clear out their old 5″ ebook reader today. You can now find a refurbished Sony Reader Pocket Edition for $85 on Sony.com. It’s a very nice deal and definitely worth a look. This is one of the e-readers that Sony released last year. It has a 5″ Pearl E-ink screen and it [...]
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The book is on fire. Stone tablets might have fared better.
October 14th, 2011 · 1 Comment · opinion
The book is on fire. For two thousand years the format of the book has been relatively fixed. Sheets of paper with printed words are bound together at one side and given a cover. The format is called the codex, from the Latin caudex for trunk of tree or block of wood. Writing itself was [...]
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K3 Updated – Now Supports Kindle Cloud
October 14th, 2011 · 7 Comments · Kindle Cloud, software news
Amazon released a new update for the K3 Wifi and K3 3G yesterday. This is definitely one that you shouldn’t wait for. Go get it (here). The update give the K3 the same Kindle Cloud support that you can find on the K4. Do you know how Amazon save a copy of every ebook you [...]
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Is This Worrisome? A Baby, an iPad, and a Magazine
October 14th, 2011 · 6 Comments · opinion, video
Although cute, I find this video worrisome. It is symbolizes the problem I see with the future of language and the acceptance of Twitter-speak/spelling as the norm. Increasingly, I am receiving e-mails that are in the Twit style. And I can see future writers saying, “If it isn’t wrong according to spellcheck, then it must [...]
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Patents – Reality and Misconceptions
October 13th, 2011 · 3 Comments · opinion
Amazon are being sued this week over the Kindle Fire. There’s a patent troll who, while not actually creating anything that they can sell, are accusing Amazon of violating a number of patents. The specific patents aren’t important in this case because this is a rather straightforward example of extortion. I’ve been sitting on an [...]
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E-ink Now Working on a 300′ Screen
October 13th, 2011 · 3 Comments · hardware news
Okay, this is technically not a screen, but the photo is cool none the less. I got this photo from E-ink this morning. They wanted to demonstrate a few details about how the screen material is made, so they unrolled a few hundred feet of it, dangled it off a crane, and took this picture. [...]
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Amazon Killed Stanza
October 13th, 2011 · 16 Comments · software news
It looks like I was right 2 months back when I predicted the end of Stanza; the latest version of iOS was released yesterday and Stanza won’t run anymore. Update: It took Amazon a month to release it, but there is an update for Stanza. A friend took the screenshot at right. It shows the [...]
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WH Smith to Sell Kobo Ebooks & E-readers
October 13th, 2011 · 4 Comments · ebookstore news, hardware news
WH Smith have just announced that they are closing their independent ebookstore in favor of a new partnership with Kobo. WH Smith have moved surprisingly fast on this deal. Their ebookstore is already powered by Kobo even though the deal still hasn’t been announced yet. But that’s good for readers, becuase it means that you [...]
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