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With summer nearly over, the family and I squeezed in a week in the heat of Catalunya, España otherwise known as Catalonia, Spain. It was lovely: 30 C and sunny every day compared with 15 C and lashing rain back home in Northern Ireland as the tail end of hurricane Ernesto passed over. And if that wasn't enough, the pastries
Ebooks and ereaders have come a long way since I first purchased novels from Peanut Press to read on my Palm III. Neither Peanut Press or Palm are in existence today - the former eventually disappeared into Barnes and Noble, and the latter was wasted by HP - but nearly two decades on, ebooks are part of everyday life, largely
There's nothing like trying before buying. It's the ultimate way to know for sure that the focus of your most recent gadget obsession is truly worth purchasing. Apple opened its own line of retail stores based on that very concept. And while it's easy enough to order almost anything online and have it delivered quickly, there's still no way to
Arriving in 2007 with its e-paper display, the Amazon Kindle revolutionised reading and has become almost synonymous with e-readers. Seven years on, there's been a steady evolution of the Kindle, introducing whiter screens, backlights and touch. On review here is the Kindle, 2014 edition. This is the standard model - not the Paperwhite, not the Voyage - so let's take
Just in case you were going to miss it, Thursday is "Read an a eBook Day", a celebration of modern storytelling. Surprisingly, it's not sponsored by Amazon on behalf of the Kindle but rather OverDrive whose apps let you borrow library books for free. Yes, for free. It's probably one of the best keep secrets in the whole tablet and ereader
After weeks of speculation, Amazon has finally shown its hand in the set-top box game with the Fire TV. It's a $99 box with a Bluetooth remote control that connects to your HD TV and shows Amazon content plus media from partners, including Netflix, Hulu, ESPN and Pandora. Initially, this doesn't sound terribly different from the Roku and Apple TV
Amazon has announced that it will be offering something innovative in October of this year. Kindle Matchbook will launch. It isn't a new type of Kindle device. Instead, it is a very unique way of allowing people to access books. The Kindle (and other ebook readers) are fairly new, especially when you consider how long mass produced printed books have