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Ads in eBooks Are a Good Thing. Deal with It.

April 20th, 2011 · 11 Comments · opinion

Amazon is introducing an advertising component to the Kindle platform.  I love it.  Kudos to Jeff Bezos & Co. for their forward thinking on this initiative.  I’m talking about the less expensive ($114) device currently known as “Kindle with Special Offers & Sponsored Screensavers.”  (It’s not the sexiest name but it certainly describes the product! [...]

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The Inspiron Duo ships with a Blio powered reading app

March 26th, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news, hardware reviews

I’m working my way through installing reading apps on my Duo and I discovered that Dell’s strange little netbook convertible shipped with a reading app. It’s called Bookstage, and it’s powered by Blio. This isn’t much of a news item, but I haven’t seen it mentioned on other blogs. Engadget didn’t talk about it in [...]

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First Impressions of a Dell Inspiron Duo

March 24th, 2011 · 3 Comments · hardware reviews

So I ended up with an Inspiron Duo, and I have to say it’s a very pretty machine. I’ve been playing with it for a few hours, but I knew how I felt within minutes. Have you ever had one of those gut reactions: “Yeah, that’s just not going to work for me”? That’s how [...]

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