So I’ve had my K5 out of the box for a couple days now and I thought I’d post some first impressions. It’s an okay device, but it’s a little thicker and heavier than I expected. But it also has a solid feel to it. My lighter e-readers (Sony Reader Wifi, K4, and the Nook [...]
Entries from November 30th, 2011
Games Could be the Secret Weapon on the Kindle Touch (K5)
November 30th, 2011 · 2 Comments · hardware reviews
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Intel Classmate PC Shows Up Again as the PeeWee Pivot
November 30th, 2011 · 4 Comments · hardware news
Way back in the dim reaches of time (2006), Intel got interested in the education laptop market. I’m sure you’ve seen the OLPC, right? Intel was inspired by that machine and they came up with the Classmate PC. The Intel Classmate PC was originally conceived as reference design. It used an Intel CPU and low [...]
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University Study Finds the Obvious Cause of Piracy – Frustrated Customers
November 30th, 2011 · 3 Comments · opinion, piracy
There’s an interesting post on The Hill blog today. It’s written by a couple professors from Carnegie Mellon University, and it rehashes several papers that they released in past couple years. (A brief look at one author’s CV reveals that they’ve written a number of papers on piracy.) Nevertheless, our research suggests that Hollywood is [...]
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One More Digital Hold Out Has Fallen – Fahrenheit 451 Now Available as an Ebook
November 30th, 2011 · 7 Comments · publishing news
First they came for Rowling, and I smiled; Then they came for Bradbury, and I cheered; Alas, no one has come for White. Sigh. Simon and Schuster has announced that Ray Bradbury’s seminal Fahrenheit 451 is now available as an ebook.You can find it in most ebookstores, including the Kindle Store, for the princely sum [...]
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Amazon Now Hiring Kindle Managers for Brazil
November 30th, 2011 · 7 Comments · Amazon
Now here’s an unsurprising turn of events. Some time back I told you that I guessed Amazon was planning to open a local Kindle Store in Brazil. I didn’t have much to go on at the time; all I was working from was gut instinct and new language support in the then latest Kindle model [...]
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Ebrary Now Offers Ebook Subscriptions for Indivduals
November 29th, 2011 · No Comments · digital library
As the next part of my series on library ebook alternatives, I’d like to discuss a program that ebrary just launched today.
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Kindle Fire Now Runs CM7
November 29th, 2011 · 2 Comments · hardware news
News is breaking over at XDA Forums that a hacker now has an open source Android firmware running in his Kindle Fire. There’s no details yet, but he did post the first proof of concept photos.
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Tablet Gift Guide – 2012 Edition
November 29th, 2011 · 11 Comments · tips and tricks
Christmas approaches, and tablets are bound to be one of the more popular gifts. I’m giving one away myself, so I thought it would be a great idea to blog my way through setting up the tablet. I’m going to try to cover everything from picking a tablet to prepping it and installing software. I [...]
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B&N Launches World’s Smallest Social Network (Population: Only Me)
November 28th, 2011 · 5 Comments · ebookstore news
There are times where you have to admire B&N for their ground breaking work into new programs and features for the Nook. Sometime in the past few months they launched MyNook.com, a new portal where you can manage and share details about your Nook ebooks. But Barnes & Noble did something that no one else [...]
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The Kindle Fire Needs a Killer App
November 28th, 2011 · 2 Comments · opinion
My Kindle Fire is proving to be a decent ebook reader and a worthy tablet. I can’t ditch my iPad though because I can’t abandon Zite or Flipboard. I consider both of them to be killer apps for the iPad platform. Neither of them were available when the iPad was launched but I’m so hooked [...]
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