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Gadgets

EnTourage Edge: Half Ebook Reader, Half Tablet, All Hideous

1:52AM Matt Buchanan | Have you ever wondered how a bunch of people come up with the same brilliant idea at the same time? Like an ereader with two screens? Half of the enTourage eDGE is an e-Ink reader. The other’s an Android tablet. More »
QOTD

Your Choice: A Universal Media Tablet Or An E-Ink Reader?

2:00PM Brian Lam | E-ink readers are great for book replication, but can’t play back video. A tablet like Microsoft’s Courier or the Apple Tablet may not handle books as well, but can do it all. Which is for you? More »
Gadgets

Wait. Another E-Reader For Oz Market Lands

4:00PM Chris Oaten | Last week came news of a fresh reader from BeBook. Now Pioneer announces a new e-reader, the DreamBook eReader+, and the specs don’t look half bad. More »
Gadgets

Rumour: Sony’s New EBook Readers Will Touch $200

2:00AM John Herrman | This according to a pair of posted-then-pulled product pages on J&R, which pegged the prices for the leaked PRS-300 and PRS-600 readers at $US200 and $US300, respectively. Plus, a few more HOT HOT HOT e-reader hardware specs. More »
Gadgets

Student Suing Amazon After They Deleted Homework From His Kindle

7:38AM Sean Fallon | Forget blaming it on the dog, thanks to Amazon students have a 21st century excuse for lost homework. When Amazon foolishly yanked 1984 from thousands of Kindles, Justin Gawronski’s electronic notes for a summer assignment became useless. More »
Online

Plastic Logic Makes Same Mistake As Apple, Ties Their Touchscreen Ebook Reader To AT&T 3G

2:01PM Matt Buchanan | Plastic Logic’s giant touchscreen ebook reader makes Amazon’s Kindle look like ancient Egyptian technology, and the Barnes & Noble digital bookstore closes its serious content gap. Too bad though they’re using AT&T’s 3G network for over-the-air downloads. More »
Gadgets

Why Amazon’s Power To Delete Books Is Absolutely Horrifying

10:00AM Matt Buchanan | Editors from Columbia’s Science and Technology Law Review explained to us a year ago the pitfalls of not owning your Kindle books, a fact that Amazon revealed to be more horrifying than we thought. Guess what? It’s worse. More »
Gadgets

Barnes And Noble Announces “World’s Largest EBookstore”

8:05AM Sean Fallon | Rumors about Barnes & Noble’s plans to develop an eReader have been confirmed in a company statement that launches a new e-Bookstore and outlines a partnership with Plastic Logic to develop an eReader for an early 2010 launch. More »
Gadgets

Sheet Music For Amazon Kindle DX Gets Rid Of The, Um, Sheet

1:00AM Matt Buchanan | Good idea or terrible idea? Sheet music on the Kindle. They catalog has 20,000 titles and they’re cheap, about $US3. Or you can always read a bunch of law textbooks. Fun! [Amazon via Gadget Lab] More »
Software

iPhone App Store Bans Book App for Naughty Language

10:00PM Wilson Rothman | Self-published authors are now distributing books in self-contained iPhone apps, but when a friend of ours submitted his for approval, he got blackballed for content that was either “obscene, pornographic, offensive or defamatory.” NSFW pic: More »