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Ebook Lending Libraries roundup

January 25th, 2011 · 7 Comments · tips and tricks

I just heard on Twitter about another website that let you lend ebooks. Just for the sake of curiosity I went through my posts and gathered a list of all the ebook lending sites I’ve covered so far. Counting GoodReads, I’m up to 6 7-8 9. And now I’m down to 7 sites where you [...]

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Black Friday tablet sales roundup

November 16th, 2010 · 2 Comments · sales

I wrote a post yesterday about e-readers that are going to be on sale after Thanksgiving Day, and somehow it slipped my mind that tablets would also be on sale. Oops. I’ve looked, and there aren’t that many tablets listed in the Black Friday adverts.

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Black Friday e-reader sales roundup

November 15th, 2010 · 5 Comments · hardware news

Quite a few stores will be offering an e-reader for their Black Friday sales (on the day after Thanksgiving). I’ve been waiting to write this post until I was sure all the adverts had been leaked. I’m pretty sure I got them all.

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Pandigital Novel (black) review roundup

August 20th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware reviews

So we’re 2 days past the launch of the black Pandigital Novel, and it’s pretty clear all the early reviews are online. Now is a good time to gather them all in one post so they can be found easily. I know that not everyone at SlateDroid agreed with my review, so I found it [...]

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What you missed while on holiday

July 6th, 2010 · No Comments · links post

Welcome back from the holiday weekend. If you left early on Friday, here are some of the posts you missed. First, Books-a-Million are giving away one e-reader everyday in July as a promotion for their new bookstore. Speaking of ebookstores, B&N announced the More n Store promotions for July. In hardware news, Foxconn decided to [...]

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iPad Media app Roundup

May 30th, 2010 · No Comments · ipad app

I came across a neat post on one of the Guardians blogs the other day. They had a list of media apps that had been released for the iPad. The list was great, but I thought I could do better. I took that list, expanded it, and here it is. A word of warning: Some [...]

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PDF Tools Roundup

May 19th, 2010 · No Comments · ebook tools

Web Worker Daily has a good post on PDF Tools. The list of 15 tools is by no means complete, but it’s a pretty good start (and more tools keep being mentioned in the comments). I’m not going to name the programs WWD missed; instead, I’ll post a comment over on their blog. Web Worker [...]

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iPad Weekly Roundup

March 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Apple

I thought it would be a good idea to post a summary of iPad news from the past week. I’ve posted some of this already, but not all. iPad Sold Out, Next Shipment on 12 April (CrunchGear) iPad will come with 30k Ebooks from Project Gutenberg (AppAdvice) Best Buy to carry iPad on Launch Day [...]

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