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iriver Cover Story now £99 at Waterstones

March 10th, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news

Yesterday I found the iriver Story on sale, and today I discovered that iriver’s other e-reader, the Cover Story, is on sale at Waterstones for only £99. That’s £50 off the previous retail. This e-reader is based on a 6″ E-ink screen, and it has a touchscreen, Wifi, 2GB Flash storage, a SD card slot, [...]

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Iriver Cover Story now in stock at Waterstone’s – £129.99

November 17th, 2010 · 3 Comments · hardware news

iriver’s latest e-reader, the Cover Story, is now in stock at Waterstone’s . The Cover Story is based on a 6″ E-ink touch screen, and it has 2GB Flash, a SD card slot, accelerometer, stylus, and support for Adobe DE DRM. The base model is now selling for £129.99, and the model with Wifi is [...]

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Wikipedia hard cover editions now available

November 11th, 2010 · 4 Comments · digitization projects

Do you recall my post from some time back about how you can select and print a collection of Wikipedia articles?Well, Pediapress have announced: The most demanded features for our Wikipedia books were color inside and hardcover outside. It’s now a reality. As of a few days ago, you can now order books in hardcover [...]

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iriver Cover Story hits the FCC

October 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment · hardware news

This is a good piece of news for a Friday. The paperwork for iriver’s second gen e-reader just showed up in the FCC database today. I’m hoping this means we’ll see it in the US. There’s not much in the way of new details, though. We already knew that the Cover Story had a 6″ [...]

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iriver Cover Story hands on video

October 6th, 2010 · 2 Comments · hardware news, video

The folks behind the iriver Story blog shot this video of the new Cover Story. Aside from the fact he speaks to fast, it’s pretty good. You might want to click through and watch it in HD on Youtube.

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New firmware out for the iriver Cover Story

October 5th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news

Good news for both of you who own a Cover Story. Iriver released an update. It was just released yesterday. The main feature added in this firmware update is support for IMAP email accounts. It also includes a new calibration routine for the touch screen. iriver

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Ibis Reader updated to include cover images in the library

September 30th, 2010 · 4 Comments · software news

Keith Fahlgren just announced a new update the the browser based Ibis Reader. You”l now be able to see the covers of the ebooks in your library. Ibis Reader was also updated so it now supports the new cover image rules from the ODPS 1.0 standard. Personally, I’d rather have the images appear when I [...]

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iriver Cover Story hands on videos

September 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news, video

These videos was shot at IFA-Berlin by Charbax of ArmDevices.net. The second video shows the Cover Story using Wifi to visit the WHSmiths ebookstore.

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iriver Cover Story to come w\Wifi, launching in Russia today

September 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news

iriver’s touch screen e-reader, the Cover Story, will soon be available in 2 models. One detail I missed when I reported on it before was that it will come with and without Wifi. via ereaders.nl In other news, the Cover Story is launching today in Russia. The-eBook.org is reporting from the Moscow International Book Fair, [...]

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How to turn Wordle into an e-book cover generator

August 19th, 2010 · 3 Comments · ebook tools, tips and tricks

by nizejpodpisany Wordle is a fantastic word cloud generator. Its creator, Jonathan Feinberg, has managed to do something great: with the selection of fonts, colors and a new idea on how the words are composed, he’s achieved the effect is far beyond the IT world. It already belongs to the world of art. With Wordle [...]

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