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FigNinja: I really like the ability to read the books on other devices, like my phone or computer, and be able to sync all my bookmarks, notes and such. That's ... more »
weatherman: This will probably do more for Amazon's attempts to break in to the textbook market than their Kindle DX did. #kindleforpcbetadownload more »
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Fractal the Meek: Thank you for being a champion for the essence of e-readership! And also, I've seen at least one notably less comfortable bike design. more »
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#kindle

Kindle For PC Beta Now Available to Download
Now you don't need a Kindle eReader to buy and read the 360,000+ books Amazon sells in its annoyingly proprietary Kindle format. The desktop app supports color photos, multi-touch pinch-zooms, and displays notes/highlights marked on Kindles and the iPhone. More »
#remainders

Remainders: Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)
Case-Mate Designs Kindle Case, Proves They Don't Understand Kindle...Famous Watchmaker Teams With Famous Carmaker To Launch Least Famous Phone Ever...Designer Discovers Way To Make Bike Seats More Uncomfortable...Wind Turbines Go Stealth to Quit Screwing Up Radar More »
#ebooks

Creative Zii MediaBook Could Combine eBook and PMP Features
Details are sparse at the moment, but what we do know today is that Creative is hard at work developing a "MediaBook" device that will combine video, pictures and text with what could be described as an eBook form factor. More »
#kindle

Mac Getting a Kindle App, Just Like Windows
Windows isn't the only operating system getting a Kindle app; Amazon has just announced that they're prepping a Kindle app for Macs as well, allowing you to read your Kindle purchases right on your computer. Taste the excitement! [SA Insider]
#kindle

Amazon Combats The Nook By Dropping the International Kindle Price By $20
Amazon has responded to the release of Barnes and Noble's nook ereader by price matching their International Kindle down to $259. Eh, I'm not reading ebooks overseas. I still want a Nook. [NYT]
#kindle

Every Win 7 Tablet Is a Multitouch Color Kindle (With This App)
Nook better watch it. One of the "surprises" at the Windows 7 keynote: a multitouch Kindle app for Windows 7 from Amazon. Ebook reading with pinch text zooming, and yes, color photos. Looks great. A full-color shot: More »
#nook

8 Reasons You Can Finally Love Ebook Readers (Thanks to Nook)
I'm an avid reader, studied literature in school, and nerd out over tech, yet past ebook readers have left me cold. The Nook is the first reader I really want, and I won't be alone. Here's why. More »
#ebookreaders

Barnes & Noble Compares Nook to Kindle 2: Biased But Fair
Though Barnes & Noble has pulled down its Nook site until the official product launch, we've got all the info plus a few extras, like this spec comparison chart of Nook and Kindle 2: More »
#barnesnoble

Barnes & Noble's Dual-Screen Nook: $260, Eats the Kindle's Lunch
Remember that crazy, dual-screened Barnes & Noble Nook reader we scooped the hell out of a while back? Well, it's online-official, with Wi-Fi and 3G, person-to-person lending and expandable memory. Oh, and it ships 11/30. UPDATE: Site's pulled. More »
#google

Massive 'Google Editions' eBook Store Pushed Back Until Next Year
"This time we mean it" was the last declaration Google made about their plans to open an eBook store, set to launch before then end of 2009. And hey, it looks like they did! Well, except for that 2009 part. More »
#rant

Why I Think E-Ink Readers Are Dumb
The future of media isn't on paper. And a device just dedicated to replicating dead trees is a waste of time. Let me show you why electronic ink's virtues don't matter as much as its weaknesses do. More »
#remainders

Remainders - What We Didn't Post
Marge Simpson To Pose for Playboy...Kindle Books To Cost More Abroad...Twitter Recommended for Nobel Peace Prize...Windows Mobile 7: So Close and Yet So Far More »
#kindledx

Amazon Takes the Kindle DX Abroad Too
Amazon recently introduced an international version of the Kindle 2, and today confirmed a similar international Kindle DX. As the international Kindle 2 is $20 more than the domestic, the Kindle DX could see a price bump as well. [TechFlash]
#qualcomm

Qualcomm's Mirasol Ultra Low Power Display Is Almost Magic
Ebook readers suffer because they use E-Ink, which isn't in color and doesn't refresh fast enough to do video. Qualcomm is quietly showing off its Mirasol display, now in full color with 30-frame-per-second video. See for yourself: More »
#kindle2

Kindle 2 Drops Price Again to $259, Adds International Flavour For $279
Amazon just dropped the price of the Kindle 2 again, down to $259. They've also introduced a US & International wireless version for $279, which ships October 19. More »
#magazines

Time's "Hulu for Magazines" Idea Is So, So Doomed
Magazines are basically fucked. They know this, and figure the only way they're going to survive is if they manage to successfully navigate the transition to digital. Time's grand plan? A "Hulu for magazines." Oh boy. More »
#amazon

Kid Who Sued Amazon Wins, Kindle Now Safer Place for Your Books
The kid who sued Amazon for eating his homework just won in court, to the tune of $150,000. More »
#imagecache

Kindle Couple's Marriage Will Last Forever, Even After the Battery Dies
Because that's how E-Ink works, get it!? Well, it was either that or a joke about Amazon remote-deleting these folks' legitimately conceived future children. More »
#kindledx

Princeton Students in Kindle DX Pilot Program Sure Hate the Kindle DX
Bad news for Amazon, who's hoping that in the future all college students will read their textbooks through the oversided Kindle DX: the first students to use it, at Princeton, are not fans. More »
#kindle

This Is How Michael Jordan Would Use a Kindle
Some people use their Kindles to read books. Others get Kindles to spend hours practicing crazy moves with them, like this reader today at the Gizmodo Gallery. Watch him spin the Kindle like a Michael Jordan would spin a basketball. More »
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I Want the Trapper Kindle to Be a Real Product So Badly
The Kindle has two main problems, according to this Lunchbreath cartoon: it breaks easily and it doesn't let other people see what you're reading. The Trapper Kindle solves these problems with flair. [Flickr via The Daily What]
#ebookreaders

iRex DR800SG Ebook Reader: Verizon 3G, B&N Books, Stylus Touchscreen
Updated: 2010 really is shaping up as the year of the ebook reader. The latest entry: iRex's $400 DR800SG. It has an 8.1-inch stylus touchscreen, 3G Gobi chip with unlimited Verizon data, and books from Barnes & Noble's ebook store. More »
#dealzmodo

Refurbished Kindle Down to $150
Just earlier this week, I noticed a few sites excited over Amazon's offer for a $199 refurbished first generation Kindle. But now, Amazon has dropped the price to $150. More »
#review

Sony Reader PRS-600 Touch and Pocket PRS-300 Dual Review: Too Many Compromises
I have spent the last two weeks reading a book on Sony's two newest Readers, the Touch and the Pocket editions—one is overloaded with tricks but killed by glare, the other is simplified past the point of goodness. More »
#ebookreaders

Budget Cool-er Reader with Color Touchscreen and 3G Planned for Early Next Year
When we reviewed the Cool-er reader, we liked its lower price, but felt it lacked the polish of the Kindle. Well, now Interead says it's working on a color Cool-er that should not only be touch-capable, but low-priced, too. More »
#ebooks

Time Inc. Launching Ebook Reader Within 3 Months?
Our old buddy Owen Thomas at NBC Bay Area just revealed a Time Inc. internal document that shows the media giant's plan to enter the ebook reader market—possibly to bump out Amazon. More »
#amazon

Amazon Tries to Make Amends for Deletion of 1984 with Warm Words, Cold Hard Cash
Remember Amazon's remote deletion of all Kindle copies of 1984? Big bro' Amazon is trying to make nice by offering affected users some pretty words along with either $30 checks or redelivery of 1984 (with your original annotations). More »
#ebooks

Survey Reveals Consumers Don't Want To Pay More Than $99 For An eReader
According to a survey of 4,706 consumers conducted by Forrester Research, the vast majority of consumers are only willing to pay $50-$99 for an eReader. Obviously, this doesn't jibe with retailer price points currently set at $199 and up. More »
#kindle

Amazon Kindle 2 Hacked to Run Linux
Hacker Jesse Vincent, who's previously written software to allow PDFs and ePubs to be read on the Kindle, wheedled and cajoled the Kindle 2 into running Ubuntu 9.04. You know, just because. More »
#ebookreaders

Kindle is More Environmentally Friendly Than Old-School Books
According to an analysis by the Cleantech Group, the Kindle is more environmentally friendly than plain ol' paper books, assuming you're not a freak who reads less than five books a year. More »
#kindle

Here's Another Kindle Holder For Book Aficionados Who Just Can't Let Go
The hollowed out book, long a staple of Shawshank Redemption prison escapes and whatnot, now hosts the Kindle, thanks to a company that apparently just can't let that old "book" style of reading go the way of the dinosaur. More »
#ebooks

Sony, of All Companies, to Ditch Proprietary eBook Formats
Sony, which we've blasted in the past for an insistence on proprietary formats, will support the open standard ePub format for its ebook readers. Open, of course, doesn't mean "free of DRM": This is really a jab at Amazon. More »
#ebooks

CourseSmart Dumps 7,000+ Textbooks Into the iPhone App Store
They're hugely different devices, sure, but could the iPhone be stepping on the Kindle's toes again? CourseSmart, which offers subsciption-based, notes-capable eBooks online, has released a full-featured iPhone app for their subscribers. In other words, yes. More »
#ebookreaders

iRex's Next Ebook Reader Will Come With 3G, Less Sticker Shock
It looks like iRex, leading makers of giant, feature-packed ebook readers for real-life P.G. Wodehouse protagonists, is casting a monocled eye on the mainstream market. Crave's got details on a forthcoming 8.1-inch touchscreen reader, with wireless, rumored at under $400. More »
#appletablet

Apple Tablet Probability Meter: 90% Chance, 3 Months Away
After last Sunday's rumor on the Apple Tablet's September announcement, and yesterday's evidence of two new iProducts in the iPhone OS 3.1 USB devices list, I have decided to elevate the level in our Apple Tablet Probability Meter to 90%. More »
#sony

Rumor: Sony's New eBook Readers Will Touch $200
This according to a pair of posted-then-pulled product pages on J&R, which pegged the prices for the leaked PRS-300 and PRS-600 readers at $200 and $300, respectively. Plus, a few more HOT HOT HOT e-reader hardware specs. More »
#rumor

iRiver Plans Web Tablet, E-Book Reader, Android iPod Killer?
Put this one strictly in the rumor basket, but if the apparently loose-lipped product manager at iRiver's Australian distributor is to be believed, the Korean company has the iPod Touch, Amazon Kindle, and even Arrington's CrunchPad firmly in its sights. More »
#rumor

Apple's eBook Store Probably Won't Belong to Apple
Although it wasn't the most enticing of the flurry of rumors floated in the FT's Apple tablet report, the claim that iTunes might grow an eBook arm certainly raised eyebrows. It turns out, though, Apple might actually outsource this one. More »
#amazon

High School Student Suing Amazon After They Deleted Homework From His Kindle
Forget blaming it on the dog, thanks to Amazon students have a 21st century excuse for lost homework. When Amazon foolishly yanked 1984 from thousands of Kindles, Justin Gawronski's electronic notes for a summer assignment became useless. More »
#appletablet

Apple Tablet Probability Meter: 80% Chance, 4 Months Away
We have been tracking the Apple Tablet for longer than I want to remember. Here's an update on the probability of it happening at all, and when we think it will launch if it does. More »

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