12:33 PM by pilotbob in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs

Help us select the next book that the Mobile Read book club will read for July 2010.

The nominations will run through Jun 27.
Voting (new poll thread) will run for 5 days starting Jun 27.

Book selection category for July per the "official" club opening thread is:

July 2010
Fantasy (trees/magic)

In order for a book to be included in the poll it needs THREE NOMINATIONS (original nomination, a second and a third).

How Does This Work?
The Mobile Read Book Club (MRBC) is an informal club that requires nothing of you. Each month a book is selected by polling. On the last week of that month a discussion thread is started for the book. If you want to participate feel free. There is no need to "join" or sign up. All are welcome.

How Does a Book Get Selected?
Each book that is nominated will be listed in a pool at the end of the nomination period. The book that polls the most votes will be the official selection.

How Many Nominations Can I Make?
Each participant has 3 nominations. You can nominate a new book for consideration or nominate (second, third) one that has already been nominated by another person.

How Do I Nominate a Book?
Please just post a message with your nomination. If you are the FIRST to nominate a book, please try to provide an abstract to the book so others may consider their level of interest.

How Do I Know What Has Been Nominated?
Just follow the thread. This message will be updated with the status of the nominations as often as I can. If one is missed, please just post a message with a multi-quote of the 3 nominations and it will be added to the list ASAP.

When is the Poll?
The poll thread will open at the end of the nomination period, or once there have been 10 books with 3 nominations each. At that time a link to the poll thread will be posted here and this thread will be closed.

The floor is open to nominations.

Official choices each with three nominations:

09:31 AM by dmaul1114 in E-Book General | News

Thought this deserved it's own news thread, rather than being buried in the Nook price drop thread.

http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Wireles...pf_rd_i=507846

06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

If you missed our frontpage news at any point this week, here is the best way to catch up:

Miscellaneous - Announcements

• Paris meetup THIS SATURDAY ! 19 june 2010

06:05 PM by zelda_pinwheel in Miscellaneous | Announcements

Yet again the time has flown past and our next Paris meetup is only a few days away, this saturday the 19th of June ! Please mark your calendars, make sure your reader is charged and ready and leave us a little note in this thread to say you'll be there. Can't wait to see you all !

Here are all the details :

When : Saturday, 19 June starting at 6pm

Where : bar La Sardine, place Ste. Marthe (room behind the bar)

google map

more infos

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Hé ben, le temps a filé encore et je m'aperçois que notre prochain apéro parisien est ce samedi le 19 juin ! Marquez la date d'une pierre blanche, chargez bien vos liseuses, et laissez-nous un petit mot pour confirmer votre présence dans ce fil. Au plaisir de vous (re)voir !

Voici tous les détails :

Quand : samedi le 19 juin, à partir de 18h
Où : salle du fond au bar La Sardine, place Ste. Marthe,

plan google

plus d'infos

06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

Gosh we've talked a lot this week. Here's your weekly round up of MobileRead's events.

E-Book General - News

• iRex Technologies files for Chapter 11

E-Book General - General Discussions

• A manufacturer wants your opinion on 9.7" device features

E-Book Readers - Apple Devices

• New from Apple's WWDC: iBooks

E-Book Readers - More E-Book Readers

• Pandigital Novel first impressions

05:48 PM by wdejager in E-Book General | News

The Netherlands-based company iRex Technologies deals with financial difficulties and has filed for chapter 11, stated iRex-ceo Hans Brons today. The much-anticipated DR800 was delayed due too FCC procedures and hence iRex missed the all-important Christmas shopping season. That was a direct cause of the financial problems.

It is not clear yet whether iRex, inventor of eInk technology and one of the first producers of e-reading devices, will resume business later on, or that the company will file for bankruptcy. "The expectations are still positive", according to Mr. Brons.

Source: eReaders.nl

10:16 AM by kjk in E-Book Readers | Apple Devices

http://live.gdgt.com/2010/06/07/live...note-coverage/

“I’d like to tell you about one of our apps we’re updating today: iBooks. … I’ve got a few stats for you. In the first 65 days, users have downloaded over 5m books, that’s about 2.5 books per iPad, which is terrific.”

new features:

“We’ve added another big enhancement — the ability to view and read PDFs. So we’ve built that in.” Big applause. “You can now view PDFs. We’ve put a little selector at the top — books and PDFs. You get a whole new bookshelf just for PDFs, they just look gorgeous.”

10:10AM - “As you know, you can create highlights, you can also make notes. Now you can make notes. In addition, we’ve added a control to just tap and bookmark a page — under ToC you’ll see all the notes, highlights, and bookmarks.”

Interesting, the PDFs are listed in a separate bookshelf.

06:58 AM by zelda_pinwheel in E-Book General | General Discussions

I've been contacted by a manufacturer who would like to know what features are considered important in a 9.7" device. Your answers will be taken seriously, so please vote for the features you consider priorities. The poll covers both hardware and software features.

Multiple choices are possible.

Thanks !