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I have a Kindle and I grown to love it, however it’s one weakness for me is the lack of a backlight. This means at night even with lights on you need a book light to avoid shadows on the pages. Unfortunately, most book lights that are available are badly made, they are flimsy and don’t stayed hooked to the
My daughter and I are regular visitors to our local public library. She loves getting new books for bedtime reading and I love reading them to her. Sometimes the simple pleasures are best. For my own reading, increasingly I've been reading ebooks on my Nook, either purchasing from Waterstones or finding free novels elsewhere on the web. Previously I had
When it comes to ebook readers, I think it's fairly safe to say that there are three main contenders in the market - Amazon with the Kindle, Barnes & Noble with the Nook and Sony with the Pocket Reader range. Three contenders in the US market that is. If you live in the UK, your choice is more restricted with
Jeffrey and Esbjorn hear what Doug Atkinson of enTourage has to say about the Pocket eDGe, a clamshell-style device with dual screens. It has a 7" TFT tablet screen on one side and a 6" e-Ink reader screen on the other. And to be clear, it's not two devices in one, it's one device with two screens. The eDGe will
Andy McCaskey talks to Heather Shelstad, Director of Marketing for CourseSmart. Anyone in education will know that textbooks are expensive and CourseSmart offers a cheaper and more convenient alternative. CourseSmart is the world's largest provider of on-line textbooks with around 90% of the current curriculum available at about 60% of the cost. CourseSmart has relationships with many of the major publishers,
Pandigital today added a 9" colour Android tablet with wireless 3G connectivity to its existing line of Multimedia Novels. Aimed at the ereader market, this is Pandigital's first integrated wireless device offering access to Barnes & Noble's ebookstore across AT&T's network without contract. The tablet has a 9" full colour touch-screen LCD display which when coupled with Android allows a huge
Another e-book reader is rumored to be in the works and this one is by Creative. And the promises are broad with a color screen, media, music, the moon. Of course this is right on the heels of Barne's and Nobles Android powered e-book. Did I forget Apple who has long been rumored to be working on a tablet style