06:25 AM by ElspethB in E-Book General | News

Now it's up to the individual airlines.

FAA allowing electronic device use throughout flights

07:09 AM by nutsheart in E-Book General | News

Bookeen have announced a new 8" EInk reader on their blog.

Looks pretty cool, eh?

8" 768x1024 screen
4GB storage
Frontlight

06:08 AM by fjtorres in E-Book General | News

Improved lighting, HD screen (about 1024x768), but no physical page turn buttons.

About time! CNET slideshow on new Nook GlowLight:

Engadget article.

TechCrunch article.

It is supposed to go on sale today, but so far no sign of it at the Barnes & Noble web site.

08:52 AM by sdpetersen in E-Book General | News

There is quite an interesting article in the latest issue of Scientific American (Nov. 2013) entitled "Why the brain prefers paper." It cites many studies but fails to give information needed to judge the quality of the studies. Still, it raises many interesting issues. Let me point out that I read on the ipad digital version of the magazine. What is your reaction?

Link to summary of the article at the Scientific American website

03:16 PM by medard in E-Book General | News

An update to Sigil is available at Google Code

• Sigil-0.7.4-Mac-Package.dmg - Mac Build 0.7.4
• Sigil-0.7.4-Windows-Setup.exe - Windows build 0.7.4
• Sigil-0.7.4-Code.ziz - Source code package for 0.7.4

Sigil is a multi-platform EPUB ebook editor with the following features:

• Online Sigil User's Guide, and Wiki documentation
• Free and open source software under GPLv3
• Multi-platform: runs on Windows, Linux and Mac
• Full UTF-16 support
• Full EPUB 2 spec support
• Multiple Views: Book View, Code View and Preview View
• WYSIWYG editing in Book View
• Complete control over directly editing EPUB syntax in Code View
• Table of Contents generator with multi-level heading support
• Metadata editor with full support for all possible metadata entries (more than 200) with full descriptions for each
• User interface translated into many languages
• Spell checking with default and user configurable dictionaries
• Full Regular Expression (PCRE) support for Find & Replace
• Supports import of EPUB and HTML files, images, and style sheets,
• Documents can be validated for EPUB compliance with the integrated FlightCrew EPUB validator
• Embedded HTML Tidy: all imported files have their formatting corrected, and your editing can be optionally cleaned

07:06 AM by anthony81 in E-Book General | News

According to The eBook Reader, Sony are withdrawing from the ebook reader market in the US.

"The final deathblow came sometime this past week when Sony removed the ereader section from their website entirely. Sony appears to be updating their website designagain and now all links to Sony Readers are missing"

http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/201...ntirely-in-us/

07:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

Previously at MobileRead:

E-Book General - News

• Baen e-books now available from B&N
• EU vote this week to set same VAT on ebooks as books
• Nokia launches 10.1" Lumia 2520 Windows RT tablet, and two 6" Windows Phone 8 devices
• The Austen Project rewrites Jane Austen's classics for modern readers

E-Book General - Reading Recommendations

• November 2013 Book Club Nominations
• November Book Club Vote

05:27 AM by HarryT in E-Book General | News

"The Austen Project" is setting out to rewrite Jane Austen's six classic novels for a modern readership. Each of her novels is being tackled by a different author; the first, which has just been published, is a rewrite of "Sense and Sensibility" by Joanna Trollope, with the next being "Northanger Abbey" which is being adapted by Val McDermid.

For more information, see http://theaustenproject.com/