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Switched On: Getting from Kno to yes, part 2

by roko on November 22, 2010 in eReaders, news, Reviews with No comments

posted Nov 21st 2010 5:30PM

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The last Switched On introduced the opportunity of the Kno tablet, which is in transition from having a large hardware footprint to having a large customer footprint. Without question, the Kno hardware is an outlier, but could be simply a first salvo in a battle for digital textbooks that will take years to play out.

Look at the ironic development of e-readers. Today’s LCD-based Nook Color would not exist if Sony and Amazon had not opened (and soothed) consumers’ eyes with e-paper-based readers that were themselves an answer to an early generation of LCD-based products like the Rocket e-Book. The outlier shows the potential.

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Nook Color review

by roko on November 17, 2010 in eReaders, Reviews with No comments

By Joshua Topolsky

posted Nov 16th 2010 8:31AM

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ASUS DR-900 e-reader

by roko on November 6, 2010 in eReaders, news with No comments

ASUS started shipping DR-900 e-reader spotted in the wild.ASUS DR-900 e-reader is with pencil-thin profile,up to 4GB of internal storage, WiFi, 3G, a 3.5mm audio jack…..

Asus has started shipping DR-900 e-reader without much fanfare, the clip gives us a better look at the device and its potential features. But it will take a little more time to reach your hands. It is expected to reach consumers by Q1 of 2011only, with a price tag of $426.The new device comes with a large E-Ink screen of about 9” with a 1024×768 resolution. It weighs just 600g and is ultra slim with just 10mm thickness. It comes with 2GB or 4GB of storage space, with the ability to hold thousands of titles.

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Energy Multimedia Color Book 1052

by roko on November 5, 2010 in eReaders, news with No comments

Energy System release Multimedia Color Book 1052 color r-reader.This e-reader have 5-inch with 800 x 480 resolution LCD,audio and video playback, support for comics, a microSD card……

Enjoy your eBooks, comics, videos and photos in full color with the Energy Color Book, a new way of multimedia entertainment. 5″ color display, 2GB of internal memory expandable up to 32GB with microSD cards and audio player (with speakers built-in).

Features :

5″ widescreen color display.
Plays eBooks, videos, music and photos.
Listen your music and read at the same time.

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Barnes & Noble launching Nook Kids this week, set to be the Nook Color’s killer app?

by roko on October 25, 2010 in eBooks, eReaders, news with No comments

Say what you want about the current spate of e-books, few will do anything to hold the interest of your three-year-old nephew. To those who like to keep peanut butter and jelly out of the keys if their Kindles that’s a good thing, but for Barnes & Noble that’s a business opportunity waiting to be tapped. According to The Wall Street Journal, the company will soon launch Nook Kids, a dedicated collection for young readers expected to start with an impressive selection of 12,000 titles. Many of those will be “enhanced,” like the book Jamberry, having one page with falling blueberries that kids can pop with a tap. That seems to be further proof of a full touchscreen on the rumored Color Nook, expected to be unveiled this Tuesday. Later in the year look for a Nook Kids app on the iPad and other devices, so now might be a good time to start teaching little Joey about regular hand cleaning.

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iRiver Cover Story e-reader

by roko on September 10, 2010 in news with No comments

Cover Story e-reader is from iriver.Now the e-reader is with extra features.It hits the U.S. shelves….

iRiver Story is a slim and cute 6-inch eReader that the company showed off at CES this year but which never launched in the U.S. That wasn’t a huge surprise as the eReader market here is getting pretty cutthroat. If you can’t deliver 3G or Wi-Fi or touch or something else to differentiate your product along with a sub-$200 or, even better, a sub-$150 price point, then perhaps it’s better to not bother. That’s why I have little hope of seeing the new iRiver Cover Story hit U.S. shelves even though it has several great features, many not seen on popular models.

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Kindle DX trial at Darden concludes it’s academically woeful, personally enjoyable

by roko on May 13, 2010 in news with No comments

Amazon’s experiment of replacing textbooks with Kindle DXs in classrooms already took a pretty hefty blow from Princeton’s feedback — which described the jumbo e-reader as “a poor excuse” for an academic tool — but here comes some more punishment courtesy of the trialists at Darden. The Business School describes the DX as clunky and too slow to keep up with the pace of teaching, with up to 80 percent of users saying they wouldn’t recommend it for academic use. There is a silver lining to this cloud of hate however, as up to 95 percent of all project participants would be happy to recommend the Kindle DX as a personal reading device. That meshes rather well with the high satisfaction and sales figures e-readers are enjoying, but it does show that the hardware has a long way to go before it convinces us to ditch our paperbacks.

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Borders’ Kobo eReader available for pre-order, ships June 17th

by roko on May 10, 2010 in news with No comments

Looking for a no-frills alternative to the Kindle or Nook? For $150, you’ll probably find it in the Kobo eReader — now available for purchase at Borders, and shipping June 17th. We went hands-on with Kobo in March and rather enjoyed the barebones aesthetic; though an early review cited long load times, we thought the 6-inch E Ink slate got the basics just about right. That’s just us, though — if you get it for Father’s Day as Borders clearly suggests, we’re not sure your picky old man will agree.

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Google Editions said to have backing of ‘almost all’ US publishers

by roko on May 10, 2010 in news with No comments

Well, it looks like Google will be kicking off its forthcoming Google Editions e-book service on a high note — Japan Today is reporting that the company has managed to score the backing of “almost all” publishers in the United States. That apparently brings the total number of publishers and authors on board to over 25,000, and the total number of books set to be available to somewhere in the neighborhood of two million — or over four million if you include the public domain books that Google already makes available for free. As far as we can tell, however, Google itself still isn’t saying any more on the matter publicly than it did last week, when it confirmed that the service would be launching in late June or July.

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Kindle’s social networking-friendly 2.5 update gets an early preview

by roko on May 7, 2010 in news with No comments

Amazon may not be rolling out its Kindle 2.5 update until later this month, but the folks at Ars Technica have already managed to get their hands on it, and they’ve kindly shared a few impressions. While the added social networking capabilities may be the most standout feature, Ars found the new “Collections” feature to be the most substantive part of the update, as it finally gives you a way to manage all your books into groups that are more easily browsed than one big list. Those social networking features do seem to welcome additions as well, however, albeit with a few limitations — while you can easily share a passage from a book with your Twitter or Facebook friends, it’s delivered in the form of a link rather than an actual quote. Other new features like password protection also work just as you’d expect, and there’s a number of more minor but pleasant surprises — like being able to pan and zoom in PDF files. Hit up the source link below for a closer look.

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