Comparing books to ebooks is like comparing mechanical watches to digital watches, or manual cars to automatic cars. No one doubts the convenience, reach, and flexibility of the ebook format, but it will never convincingly replicate the experience of a paper book—nor does it need to. Ebooks are a fundamentally new…

Amazon X-ray—the Kindle Fire feature that knows everything piece of information about a movie you're watching while you watch it—is expanding to TV shows.

The Washington Post, Time, and Boing Boing are all getting a button to send articles to your Kindle. Convenient!

Have you been eagerly awaiting the arrival of txtr's $13 ereader and rationalizing its lack of fancy features with the fact that it'll cost next to nothing? Too bad, suckers!

It might be hard to imagine, but there was once a time where thousands upon thousands of books and arguably the sum totally of human knowledge was not readily available at your fingertips. And while it's no Kindle, Agostino Ramelli's 16th century bookwheel was a valiant attempt to make that happen.

A start-up called TotalBooX, baed in Tel Aviv, is planning to "disrupt" the ebook market by selling books on a pay-as-you-read basis. But would you be interested?

The Amazon Kindle app for Windows Phone 8 got an update today. It's a good one, too, fixing the awful three-sided letterboxing and giving the app a more Metro-y tile. But it's massively late, and tripped over itself coming out the gate, too. In a way, it's a perfect encapsulation of everything wrong with Windows Phone…

Most people probably remember having a song, album, or band change our lives. It's a fairly common experience, even for those unfortunate beings who don't live and breathe music. It's a good thing to have happen to you (unless you've become too obsessed).

Everyone wants you to share. Share the music you listen to, the movies you watch, the articles you read, the books you read. So Johannes Osterhoff is sharing, just with the guy in charge.