Tomorrow’s Christmas, and lots of gadgets are going to be opened. But if you’re like me, you’ve probably forgotten to get the extra storage you need. Don’t worry; there’s no need to run out and get it today. Daily Steals has a 32GB microSD card on sale today. They’re going for $25 each, and that’s [...]
Entries from December 24th, 2011
Did You Remember the Memory Card for that Tablet/E-reader?
December 24th, 2011 · No Comments · Daily deals
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India’s Aakash Tablet is Sold Out – Replacement to Ship In January
December 23rd, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware news
It’s been just over 2 months since the India govt launched the Aakash tablet, and sales have been good. In fact, sales have been so good that it looks like the entire 1ook order has been shipped. Earlier this week the Aakash website was updated with a sold out tag; there’s no mention of when [...]
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Kobo Touch, Kobo4PC Update Adds Adverts (But Still Misses Kobo’s Newest Feature)
December 23rd, 2011 · 7 Comments · software news
You’re probably going to hear today that Kobo is pushing out an update today for the Kobo Touch e-reader and for the Kobo PC app. The updates add a number of tweaks features, and performance improvements, but they won’t begetting the fixled layout Epubs that Kobo launched with the Vox back in October. The desktop [...]
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Open Topic: “I Got This Thing For Christmas. Now What?”
December 23rd, 2011 · 63 Comments · Open Topic
I’ve been on this blog for a couple years now, and one thing I’ve noticed is that I get a sharp spike in readers the day after Christmas. These are probably people with new devices who don’t know much about it and could probably use some help with it. Christmas is still a few days [...]
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The Morning Coffee – 23 December 2011
December 23rd, 2011 · No Comments · Round up
d 2012: The Year Mobile Reading Grows Up (Wired) HTML5: The platform-agnostic key to the future of publishing (Radar) Intrínseca, Other Top Brazilian Publishers Embrace E-books (Publishing Perspectives)
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Ubuntu Now Running on the Nook Tablet
December 22nd, 2011 · 3 Comments · Android, hardware news
It’s been just over a month since the Nook Tablet shipped and not a whole lot has happened it after that first few weeks. It got rooted fairly quickly, with a full Android market coming soon after. And we discovered that you can install apps, but a few days ago B&N took that away. Well, [...]
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Baker & Taylor Launches New Ebook Library in Amazon’s Backyard
December 22nd, 2011 · 5 Comments · Uncategorized
The ebook and book distributors Baker & Taylor announced this morning that their ebook platform is finally going into a private beta. They’ve named their first partner, and it will be King County Library System, an urban system that covers Seattle, WA. B&T hasn’t released much in the way of details about their platform, but [...]
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Convert your Kindle’s MyClippings.txt file with ClippingsConverter.com
December 22nd, 2011 · 1 Comment · ebook tools, Kindle
Every time you make a note, highlight a section of text or add a bookmark in a Kindle book, a copy of the annotation is made in the MyClippings.txt file on the Kindle. The text file is a simple record of all annotations made in all books in the Kindle. It serves as a backup [...]
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WeltBild Reports Record E-reader Sales in Germany
December 22nd, 2011 · No Comments · ebookstore news, hardware news
The German publisher and media retailer Weltbild reported earlier this week that their new ebook reader, the Trekstor eBook Reader 3.0, is positively flying off the shelves. In the few short months since it launched, it has sold, according to Weltbild Managing Director Klaus Driever, in the high six-digits. Sales of this e-reader exceeded Weltbild’s [...]
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Amazon Stopped Hiding Competitor’s Reading Apps on the Kindle Fire
December 22nd, 2011 · 6 Comments · Amazon
I got an email yesterday from Wattpad. They were pleased to report that their reading app, which had previously been blocked on the Kindle Fire, was now available again. You can now search the AmazonAppstore from the KF and download the app. This is a curious change for Amazon; they had been blocking a number [...]
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