E-ink displays are great in sunlight, but useless in the dark. So with hopes of ridding the world of stupid reading lamps, this super thin film promises to add a front light to your e-reader without sacrificing its battery life. More »
It doesn’t get much airtime these days, so if you’re too young to have experienced 1984′s The Neverending Story, you need to remedy that ASAP so you can understand why this handmade e-reader and tablet case is so awesome. More »
The e-book market in Australia is still pretty flat. Most of the people I know who own one picked theirs up while OS. Or online. It’s not like you can walk in to Officeworks and be overwhelmed by choice, so it’s good to hear of one maker’s effort to capture the local market. More »
Someone sent CrunchGear a shot of their brand new Amazon Kindle and some pretty serious problems they’re having with its screen. This could be an isolated issue, or not. Is anyone else having similar issues with their Kindle? Let us know in the comments. [Crunchgear]
I gave my wife a Sony Reader for Christmas after she’d talked about them for some time (she deemed the Kindle “ugly” btw, which is important as anything else for a gadgets that’s designed to look at for hours on end, I guess). Her verdict on the experience? Good, but there’s one thing she misses from real books:
