07:10 AM by hamisertvurdu in E-Book Readers | Amazon Kindle

Hey all,

I recently realized that Kindle DX is on sale at Amazon for just $239. Is it worth buying it at this price? I am looking for your advices.

I know its technology is pretty old and there seems to be no update in the future. But I am looking for an e-ink reader with large screen to read academic PDFs. As I know, Sony will release an 13.3 inch reader next year but I think they will set a price around $400-$500, which seems a bit expensive for me. Should I wait for Sony (maybe its price would be lower than I expected) or buy a Kindle DX? I am also thinking about buying 10 inch tablet but I wonder whether tablets are better than e-ink readers to read PDF files for couple of hours without eye strain.

I don't have any device (neither tablet nor reader) and would appreciate your help.

10:11 AM by Alexander Turcic in E-Book General | News

Speaking of stock clearing: Amazon is currently selling their Kindle Fire HD 16GB and 32GB for $159 and $189, respectively. That's a $40 discount off the regular price.

Related: Rumor: Next-gen Kindle Fire HD tables - specs are in!

[via The Digital Reader]

09:36 AM by Feher in E-Book Readers | Onyx Boox

Via The Digital Reader:

The i63ML Maxwell is available now with a retail of 6990 rubles (~ $211 USD). It’s based around a 6″ HD E-ink screen, and it has an IR touchscreen, frontlight, and Wifi. It ships with 512RAM, 8GB Flash storage, a microSD card slot, 2 page turn buttons, and a joystick below the screen. The Maxwell weighs in at 238g and is the size of a 6″ ereader.

Like previous Android devices from Onyx, the Maxwell is running Android 2.3 on a 1GHz CPU. But unlike earlier models the Maxwell is also going to ship with access to Google Play. Yes, the press release says that this tablet will be able to install apps and buy books from Google Play.

For more see here. (Russian)

09:34 AM by Alexander Turcic in Barnes & Noble NOOK | Nook Developer's Corner

Itching to make the most of your Nook HD reader? You're in luck: Both, the Nook HD and the Nook HD+ are now officially supported by the CyanogenMod team. The compiled firmware isn't available yet at the time of writing, but meanwhile, feel free to take a look at the freshly uploaded sources:

https://github.com/CyanogenMod/andro...bn_hummingbird
https://github.com/CyanogenMod/andro...ice_bn_ovation

Remember: Custom flashing and rooting your Android device is not for the faint of heart. Remember to read, read, read before you make the attempt.

[related: How can I root my Nook HD+ via microSD card?, via Android Police]

05:10 AM by kennyc in E-Book General | Writers' Corner

Libraries have complained publishers aren't always willing to sell e-books to libraries. When big publishers do, they often charge high prices, especially compared to discount rates libraries get for traditional books. [...]

Enter Jamie Larue. He runs the eight libraries in Douglas County, south of Denver. Larue came up with an idea that could revolutionize the publishing world. His libraries have begun buying books directly from authors and publishing them as e-books.

Audio of the show at:

http://www.cpr.org/category/colorado...ome_Publishers

[image by mendhak via Flickr]

05:07 AM by user_none in E-Book Software | Sigil

I’m somewhat pleased to announce the immediate availability of Sigil 0.7.3. This release is primary a bug fix release. Please see the changelog for a full listing.

Currently there is no OS X package for 0.7.3 available. Even though this release fixes numerous bugs on OS X a package cannot be built at this time. The macdeployqt tool I use for OS X packaging is broken in Qt 5.1.0. I was not able to get the workaround to resolve the issue fully. Hopefully, this will be fixed in the next Qt release.

06:48 PM by Alexander Turcic in E-Book General | News

Color us skeptics on this one, but Phandroid is speculating and wishfully-thinking about a new device from Samsung that could challenge Amazon's alleged dominance in the world of E Ink devices. The talk is about the Samsung Daynote. Nothing more than the trademark application to go on at the moment, but hey, it certainly isn't out of the realm of possibility.

Samsung might be one of the only manufacturers on the planet who could manifest an e-Ink Android with a great hardware implementation. They could leverage the Daynote name through their Galaxy Note series, even incorporating it as a FEATURE while still retaining the original Galaxy Note name. And hey… the timing might be perfect. [...]

Samsung could capture a huge portion of Amazon’s eReader customers and swallow a big gulp of Amazon’s marketshare. In a world where phone and tablet tech is more iterative than revolutionary or even evolutionary, they’d offer a feature that no iPad dare include.

[image by itupictures via Flickr]

05:31 PM by Alexander Turcic in E-Book General | General Discussions

Do you find reading e-books to be "psychologically or physically habit-forming... to such an extent that its cessation causes severe trauma" (Dictionary.com)? Well, perhaps you're an e-book addict. In fact, The Independent depicts a case where someone's e-book habit had gotten so excessive that it became a very real, damaging addiction.

Page after page, chapter after chapter, when Lucy started reading she simply couldn't stop. She wouldn't sleep, eat or speak to anyone until she had completed the story. Then, she'd begin another one. Lucy was addicted to ebooks. At her worst, the 23-year-old student would spend 30 hours at a time alone in her bedroom, reading online novels on her laptop. Her head would hurt, her eyes would ache and the hunger would be painful, but she was unable to tear herself away from the screen.

A doctor quoted in the article blames the rise in consumer electronics as the culprit for this new kind of addiction.

"Whether it's ebooks, porn or gaming, a lot of these things are technology based," Dr Smith says. "This is about devices being in the home and being used in different ways while becoming integral in our lives as well. There's a huge difference between a BBC Micro in the 1980s and a computer with a mouse or a touch-screen. These things are much more pleasing to us and much more attention-grabbing. They offer a greater degree of escapism."

[image by Lily Monster via Flickr]