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The New Kindle Paperwhite Is Still the Best for Just Reading
Sony may have been the first big company to get ebook readers with electronic ink screens into the hands of consumers, Amazon’s Kindle has since become the de facto e-reader of choice for most buyers. The newest Kindle Paperwhite, the fifth generation of Amazon’s flagship e-reader, remains the best E Ink device you can buy…
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We’re Getting Closer to Electronic Paper That Can Display as Many Colours as an LCD Display
Electronic paper, from companies like E Ink, can display colour images now while minimising power usage. The trade-off is they look nowhere near as vibrant as display technologies like LCD and OLED, but new research out of Sweden could soon change that with an innovative type of reflective screen.
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You Can Finally Use Book Covers as Kindle Lockscreens
The Kindle lockscreen has always been whatever. Either you opted for a cheaper e-reader with ads or you got random stock photos of… pens and inkwells. But now Amazon has finally given bookworms what they want: The ability to use book covers as lockscreens.
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Is Everyone Highlighting On Their Kindle A Total Weirdo — Or Am I?
“Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull.” That’s Winston, from 1984, explaining that there’s no hiding from the Thought Police. Reading the line on my Kindle recently, I got a similar sense that I wasn’t alone. On Amazon’s e-reader, the sentence bears a faint underline with the notation “14,721 highlighters.” It’s…