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

Previously at MobileRead:

E-Books - News

• Cybook Gen3 V1.1 (Build 685) upgrade finally available
• Sony Reader PRS-505 officially available in Canada
• TorrentSpy ordered to pay $110m damages
• Another new E Ink device: BEBOOK

E-Book Devices - iRex iLiad

• iLiad Book Edition Launched
• Borders UK to sell iRex iLiad Book Edition

Miscellaneous - Announcements

• MobileRead improvements: Exclude forums, et al.

10:36 AM by AnemicOak in E-Book General | News

A Netherlands company is putting out a 6" e-ink reader called BEBOOK.

The BEBOOK is capable of reading all popular digital document formats like .doc, .txt, .pdf, .jpg, .htm and .rtf files. It features a 6-inch reflective screen, a SD card slot, 512MB of internal storage and a USB connector. The BEBOOK's dimensions are 184mm (length) x 120mm (width) x 10mm (height) and it weighs just 220 gr including the battery.

http://mybebook.com/index.html

Nothing too exciting, but thought it might interest some folks.

07:56 AM by HarryT in E-Book General | News

From the BBC News web site:

File-sharing site TorrentSpy has been ordered to pay $110m (£56m) in damages to the Motion Picture Association of America for copyright infringement.

The ruling from a court in the United States comes just weeks after the website shut down.

TorrentSpy facilitated the illegal sharing of copyright files by hosting a collection of links to films and music.

TorrentSpy parent company Valence Media and its owners Justin Bunnell and Wes Park have filed for bankruptcy.

For more information, see:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7389485.stm

06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Announcements

Are there forums that you never visit while you're here? Want to exclude them from your "Find New Posts" and from the "Latest Forum Activity" on our homepage? Well boys and girls, now we have the technology!

In your User CP, under "Edit Options", go to "Forum Exclusion" (or simply follow this link). From there, hold the ctrl key and select all the forums you want to exclude, hit Save Changes and you are ready to go.

Just to clarify, you can still view threads and posts from the exluded forums by navigating to them via our forum homepage.

Because this feature makes "Find new posts w/o E-Book Uploads" redundant, we will remove the latter in a few days.

Book Genres

As you may have noticed, we recently introduced genres to our e-book section. It'll still require some time to add genres to older uploads (we're going to write a tool to ease the process), but all new uploads carry a genre. And what would genres be worth if you couldn't sort by them? Well, now you can, when you browse our e-books. Enjoy.

Search BBCode

Wouldn't it be cool sometimes if you could link to search results by specifying the keywords in a post? Like, imagine someone asking for help and the best way to help this person is to direct him to a search query. You can do this now with the Search button which is added to the post editor.

We've invested some serious time into our software, but it's not until you put it in front of your audience that you'll really know whether you got it right. So please, let us know if something isn't working correctly for you. You can also leave us your suggestions on how to improve MobileRead, but please go easy, we're going to read every one of these and we want to make sure the bugs get worked out before we can start rolling out new stuff. Thanks everybody!

12:36 PM by maxfacs in More E-Book Readers | iRex

Hooray! Starting on Saturday 10th May, anybody in the UK can try the new Iliad Book Edition and grab one at a Borders store. From the press release (PDF):

The iLiad Book Edition costs £399 and will include 50 pre-loaded eBook Classic titles. The iLiad will be available in the following Borders stores: Oxford Street and Islington in London, Oxford, Cambridge, Glasgow, Cheshire Oaks and Brighton from Saturday 10th May.

11:33 AM by JSWolf in E-Book General | News

The Sony Reader PRS-505 is officially available in Canada. It seems that only the silver model is being sold right now.

Link

Related: Sony PRS-505 in Canada discussion

10:47 AM by DDHarriman in More E-Book Readers | Bookeen

It’s online!!!

The so much awaited Cybook Gen3 Firmware upgrade is online. From Bookeen's Blog:

Cybook Gen3 Firmware Upgrade - at last -
The first Cybook Gen3 firmware upgrade (version 1.1) is now available, thank you for your patience. With this build you will be able to enjoy several improvements. Check the link below to discover the features of this new firmware and how to download it.

www.bookeen.com/support

We hope that you will enjoy this new reading experience.
Best regards,

Bookeen team

PS: you must be registered at bookeen.com to access the upgrade firmware utility.

07:49 AM by Adam B. in More E-Book Readers | iRex

iRex has launched a new iLiad called the "iLiad Book Edition". At €499, it is €150 cheaper than the original.

It seems to have very similar specs as the original iLiad, however it comes in a silver color and does not contain wireless networking.

It also comes with 50 free "Classic" books, presumably in the Mobipocket format.

It is set to go on sale Friday, May 9th.

A press release can be found here.

You can join the continued discussion in this thread.