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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
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
These are tough economic times and if you want to save yourself a few pennies, stop buying ebooks, join your local library and borrow ebooks for free. The OverDrive Media Console app lets you download and read ebooks offered by your local library for nothing, and if audiobooks are of more interest, the app can handle those as well. The
Picture the scene....I'm on holiday, lying by the swimming pool, relaxing in the summer sun. It's a 4-star hotel, nothing fancy, catering to families from all round Europe; Britain, France, Germany, Norway. As I look around my fellow guests, I notice that many of them are reading from ereaders - Kindles, Kobos and the odd Nook. A few people are
Barnes & Noble has announced that it is not going to continue to produce new Nook tablet devices. Instead, it is going to transition to what it is calling a “partnership model”. The announcement from Barnes & Noble did not say what company it will be partnering with. I believe a lot of us saw something like this coming. Barnes
Avid readers who have been enjoying the Nook app on their PC or Mac are in for some disappointment. According to The Digital Reader Barnes & Noble has officially ended its support for the Nook app for PC and the Nook app for Mac. More specifically, this is in regards to the Nook for PC for Windows 2000, Windows XP,
Microsoft is looking at the Barnes & Noble Nook - and they are willing to pay $1 billion for them. Barnes and Noble stock rose 16% as news flew about Microsoft wanting to purchase the Nook e-reader, tablet and e-book business. This, just days after an announcement that Nook was allowing users to download via Google Play. Barnes and Noble also considered spinning off