[Alexander Turcic]

There's been a whole heck of a lot of stuff happening this week. Purvey the below for your pleasure.

E-Book General - News

• Prestigio MultiReader 3664 entry reader to enter Russian market
• Anti-piracy watermark in e-books gets disassembled, it's a tiny barcode!
• The college textbook ripoff charted by Bloomberg
• Sony PRS-T3 video review for the undecided
• CNET AU thumbs up the Kobo Aura
• B&N Chairman talks to shareholders, no outlook for Nook Media
• Rumor: Photos of next-gen Kindle Fire HD emerge, goes angular retro
• Marvin 2.0 lands in iTunes App Store, now also for iPhone and iPod touch
• calibre V1.3 released, brings its magic to Oppo and PocketBook Mini

E-Book General - General Discussions

• On vacation: 71 percent prefer paper over e-books, survey claims
• DIY Kindle scanner and DRM cracker
• The morality of circumventing geographical restrictions only to buy cheaper ebooks
• E-paper: Cure for insomnia?

E-Book General - Deals, Freebies, and Resources (No Self-Promotion)

• iAnnotate PDF on sale for just $1.99 until September 13 (iPad)
• O'Reilly has 50% sale on select programming e-books for today only

E-Book Readers - Apple Devices

• Mandatory Kindle for iOS 3.9.2 released ahead of iOS 7

E-Book Readers - Kobo Reader

• Turn your Kobo into a Debian Linux tablet

E-Book Readers - Sony Reader

• Sony PRS-T3 and lighted case impressions

E-Book Software - Calibre

• Calibre Companion V3.1.1 released
• Calibre Companion prerelease 3.1.1b (Android)

E-Book Software - Reading and Management

• EPUB3Reader open-source Android App released