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New Sony Reader

Hands On: Sony's New PRS-700 Touchscreen Reader

Sony brought out a new Reader tonight in NYC that adds a six-inch touchscreen to the e-ink e-reader for adding notes and annotations, as well as a redesigned case and built-in frontlight. With the touchscreen readers can enter text with a stylus on a full-screen QWERTY keyboard to add notes and annotations, search for specific phrases or just flip through the page with a stylus or finger swipe. It'll hit at the end of October for around $400. Hit the jump for more impressions.

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7:18 PM on Thu Oct 2 2008
By John Mahoney
21,575 views, 41 comments

Latest by ExtendedRockyMontage: @daftrok: Comparing the two media is inane. Listen to a CD, listen to an MP3, what's the difference to more »

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Plastic Logic's E-Reader Shown on Video, More Details Emerge

We've been following Plastic Logic's potential Kindle-killing e-reader device this week, and the guys over at TGDaily are adding to the intrigue with video of it. Speaking with a company rep, they found out that the device is less than 7mm thin and charges/connects to PCs with a miniUSB connector. More »

5:17 AM on Thu Sep 11 2008
By Kit Eaton
8,275 views, 42 comments

Latest by DisposableInterloper: @jakebathman: Tablets don't have digital ink. Try using a tablet PC in place of a textbook on an all-nighter. Your eyes more »

New Sony Reader

Sony to Drop New Reader Hardware in October?

If this press event invite is any indication, that's the way things are looking. The date is set for October 2, and it all goes down at the Bookmark Lounge of the Library Hotel here in New York. Hmm, there couldn't be any book connotation to all of that, could there? On this day of press events, it seems like Sony's jumping into the fray as well to update their year-old Reader hardware before Xmas. We'll keep you posted. [Sony Reader]

9:40 AM on Tue Sep 9 2008
By John Mahoney
2,704 views, 19 comments

Latest by Curves: @godwhacker: I had forgotten what a cool car that was. As for algebra, I have never, not once in my more »

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Plastic Logic Reader Looks Like Kindle Killer

Here is what the clunky Amazon Kindle should have been since the beginning: a simple, ultra-sleek full-page 8.5-inch by 11-inch electronic book and newspaper reader with a flexible plastic touchscreen, Wi-Fi connectivity, and the ability to read regular Office documents without conversion of any kind. As we said yesterday, Plastic Logic showed it at the Demo Fall 08 conference in San Diego. Seeing it up close and on its side makes me want to have one. Badly. More »

4:56 AM on Tue Sep 9 2008
By Jesus Diaz
27,446 views, 47 comments

Latest by gloveofpower: HOT!! I want it, really really bad! more »

Kindle Review

Review Addendum: Using Amazon Kindle on Vacation

Although Wilson tested the Kindle in bed, on the toilet, I had the chance to use it on vacation and found myself reading a great deal more than I usually do. Unlike regular books, which cause me to fall asleep pretty readily after less than 50 pages, I'd finish about 300 pages in a stretch, with no eyestrain in dark rooms or in the sun. I suppose it felt a lot more like reading on a computer or handheld. Bezos set out to build something better to read than a book, and by vacationing standards, I think he's easily met that goal on his first try. That's my quirky experience, at least, being the type of person who hates stockpiling physical media of any sort. Of course, I found lots of other things I liked and disliked about specific to using a Kindle on vacation. More »

8:06 PM on Wed Aug 27 2008
By Brian Lam
10,173 views, 39 comments

Latest by digress20: @selianth: @IchabodCrane: While Ichabod is correct that books in the public domain (eg, in US any book copyrighted before 1923) can more »

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Kindle Rumors Say Next Version Coming Fall Will Be Thinner, Cheaper, Much More Stylish

The $100 discount on the Kindles may be Amazon's way of clearing out the first-gen to make room for the now all-but-certain second-gen this fall. Business Week says that Amazon's hired a guy from frog design for the next version, which will have a better screen, thinner body, fewer UI annoyances and (obviously) be better looking. The price point is supposedly somewhere around the $249-$299 range, which might be right near the sweet spot that mainstreamers will start to pick one up as an impulse buy. That is, if mainstreamers ever really read anything. Students, on the other hand, would be a gigantic market for a Kindle Education Edition. [Business Week]

1:45 PM on Tue Aug 26 2008
By Jason Chen
6,374 views, 39 comments

Latest by Camperton: @Zlevee: You can highlight, clip and save. more »

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Sony Opens Up More E-Book Formats For Reader

A firmware update scheduled to drop later this week will allow Sony Readers to use the .epub format, an open standard (with DRM support) that has the backing of several major book publishers. This means you'll be able to get books from sources other than Sony's own Connect store, which currently only has one third the titles of Amazon's Kindle store. The Kindle, however, currently uses the Mobipocket format for its Kindle Store books, and does not yet support .epub. [AP]

9:08 AM on Thu Jul 24 2008
By John Mahoney
2,914 views, 13 comments

Latest by Ikat: Anyone know if this will work on first generation eBooks? And, if some of you want to put whatever onto your more »

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Kindle's Bright Idea: College Textbooks

Here's one really smart idea that will convert a few Kindle-haters: textbooks. Princeton University Press join Oxford, Yale and the UC in putting some of their titles into e-book form, allowing students to bypass the used book store and directly download their textbooks onto their Kindles. You'll save a few bucks for the digital version, plus shipping costs and shipping time. And if you figure out a way to hack it, that's like, free textbooks dude. Whoa. We see this extended to concerned parents of elementary school kids who've been complaining about how many textbooks they have to lug from home to school and back. Then again, maybe that's why your kids are so fat. [Yahoo Buzz via CSMonitor]

5:40 PM on Thu Jun 26 2008
By Jason Chen
7,059 views, 41 comments

Latest by tiffanyrules: My alternative to insanely expensive textbook costs (I spent over $1700 on textbooks my freshman year, and this was by more »

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NY Times Reader for Mac Beta: Free for Now

Not so hot on the heels of its Microsoft-built Windows-based counterpart, the Times Reader beta has been made available for all members of NYTimes.com. Although a Silverlight install is required, it's relatively painless and a small price to pay for Reader's efficient news presentation and old-timey typefaces. There are no subscription fees for now, but Mac users can expect to join the $14.95-a-month party when the software goes final. [NY Times via TUAW]

8:46 PM on Thu May 22 2008
By John Herrman
4,571 views, 24 comments

Latest by skierpage: If Microsoft would work with the HTML 5 W3C standards for canvas graphics, offline web apps, video, SVG, etc. like more »

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Good Times at the Gizmodo Reader Meetup


The Gizmodo reader meetup happened on Saturday at Alpine Meadows and we had a great time. The snow was soft, the gadgets were plentiful, the beer flowed and no one fell on their head except Joe, who got a black eye when he face planted on the first run. The photos above were uploaded on Nokia N95s to a central share. I didn't upload many, but I did spend most of my day fiddling with a Zune preloaded with songs to ride to. More »

5:17 PM on Mon Apr 7 2008
By Brian Lam
4,384 views, 41 comments

Latest by Mrbungleface: i can confirm nutbastards skills as he basically nearly jumped over my slow ass on the sherwood run..... nutbastard knows the more »