1. Comfort and Familiarity: Re-reading a book can be like revisiting an old friend. The familiar characters, settings, and plotlines provide a sense of comfort and nostalgia, much like rewatching a favorite movie. 2. Discovering New Details: Every time you reread a book, you may … | Continue reading
The Kindle Oasis is back in stock, which Amazon is claiming happens to be the latest version of the model that is on sale right now. This shouldn’t be much of a concern given how slow-paced E Ink devices are when it comes to innovation so that devices launched almost half a decad … | Continue reading
Anime NYC creators along with LeftField Media and the non-profit Japan Society organization have come together to hold the inaugural American Manga Awards event, the website Crunchyroll reported. The awards program aims to recognize the contributions of all those involved in the … | Continue reading
The audiobook growth momentum continues unabated in the United States, with the segment reporting a 9 percent growth in revenue in 2023. This comes to 2 billion USD in value terms, the Audio Publishers Association revealed citing data from its annual sales survey. As PublishersWe … | Continue reading
Hanvon has rolled out a new update – version 1.00.41 – that introduces several new features, ITHome reported. Prime among them is the new high-speed refresh mode which Hanvon said will allow for faster text browsing without causing significant ghosting effects. Then there is also … | Continue reading
Pocketbook has just announced its latest innovation, the Verse Colour Pro e-reader, set to ship at the end of June. This pocket-friendly device boasts a six-inch screen, E INK Kaleido 3 Colour e-paper, Bluetooth, Waterproof capabilities, and an ultra-fast quad-core processor. The … | Continue reading
As a new father, Jose Gonzales was disappointed to find so few picture books featuring characters who look like his daughter. “She’s biracial,” he says. “A lot of the popular children’s books have a white, blue-eyed, blonde girl as the main character.” And books that did feature … | Continue reading
The quickest answer is: No, colored E-ink as good for your eyes as black and white e-ink displays are. Color e-ink works more or less like black-and-white e-ink, but with a colored filter thing on top. The issue is that contrast is lower when compared to traditional e-ink. It mea … | Continue reading
The annual What Kids Are Reading Report has shown a drop of 4.4% in the number of books being read by children with reading decline particularly acute in secondary schools. For the last 16 years, the report has tracked the book-reading habits of the nation’s pupils, and this is t … | Continue reading
Asus is showing off a laptop concept at Computex 2024 that has a color E Ink display on the lid. This isn’t a new concept given that Lenovo has been offering something similar for some time already. More recently, they launched the ThinkBook Plus Gen 4 which comes with a display … | Continue reading
If you have been looking for a tablet device for your kids, now is the time. Amazon is offering the Fire HD 8 Kids tablet for just £79.99, which is the lowest it has ever been. The tablet also comes with heavy cladding to ensure they are able to survive some rough handling as wel … | Continue reading
Here is a phone that is designed to offer only the basic facilities that you’d expect out of a phone which is unlike smartphones that can be overwhelmingly intrusive at times. Plus, Offone, as the phone is named comes with an E Ink display that makes it extremely eye-friendly. Th … | Continue reading
Kobo has discontinued the Libra 2 e-reader. While this device is no longer listed on the main Kobo website in all markets, it is still available on third-party retailers. For instance, Chapters Indigo in Canada is currently offering a $20.00 discount. There might also be units av … | Continue reading
On June 30, 2023, Amazon announced the closure of the Kindle e-book store in China. Almost a year later, we stand at the threshold of another deadline, June 30, 2024, when the Amazon cloud download services will cease operations in China. Put another way, June 30 is going to be t … | Continue reading
The Moan Pantone 6 e-reader is now available to buy, just a couple of weeks after it was first announced. It is currently available to order for 999 yuan (140 USD) via JingDong. That makes for quite an affordable price point for an e-reader sporting a 6-inch Kaleido 3-color e-pap … | Continue reading
At the recent graduation ceremony of the Idaho Fine Arts Academy, Annabelle Jenkins, a graduate, took a stand against book censorship in a striking manner. Jenkins handed the West Ada School District superintendent, Derek Bub, a copy of the graphic novel adaptation of Margaret At … | Continue reading
At the recent graduation ceremony of the Idaho Fine Arts Academy, Annabelle Jenkins, a graduate, took a stand against book censorship in a striking manner. Jenkins handed the West Ada School District superintendent, Derek Bub, a copy of the graphic novel adaptation of Margaret At … | Continue reading
At the recent graduation ceremony of the Idaho Fine Arts Academy, Annabelle Jenkins, a graduate, took a stand against book censorship in a striking manner. Jenkins handed the West Ada School District superintendent, Derek Bub, a copy of the graphic novel adaptation of Margaret At … | Continue reading
It was in March last year that Meebook launched the M6 e-reader. Now, as the website eReaderPro.co.uk reported, the company has followed that up wit the launch of the color version of the same which it has named Meebook M6C. Apart from this, Meebook also launched the P78 Youth Ed … | Continue reading
The lower-end Bigme HiBreak smartphone is now available to buy online, something that applies to both the black and white and color versions of the phone. Shipping is likely to commence from end-June. Price starts at $219 for the black and white version while the color version wi … | Continue reading
Malcolm Gladwell’s upcoming release is generating a lot of buzz. Publisher Little, Brown and Company revealed on Wednesday, that the prolific author, now 60, is set to unveil his latest work, “Revenge of the Tipping Point.” This novel offers a contemporary exploration of the them … | Continue reading
Malcolm Gladwell’s upcoming release is generating a lot of buzz. Publisher Little, Brown and Company revealed on Wednesday, that the prolific author, now 60, is set to unveil his latest work, “Revenge of the Tipping Point.” This novel offers a contemporary exploration of the them … | Continue reading
Hanvon has launched a new e-note device which it said is aimed at the enterprise segment. Named the Hanvon Smart Office Notebook A6 (Industry Customized Edition), the E Ink tablet comes with features and solutions designed to make things simple and easy for office workers. This c … | Continue reading
A device by the name Boox Go 10.3 has been spotted on the FCC website, a Reddit post on this revealed. This has led many to speculate if this is the international version of the Boox Note X3 Pro that it launched sometime back and is slated for sale only in China. However, the sam … | Continue reading
iReader has finally released a new X-Pen 5 digital stylus with full WACOM support. The big selling points are 4096 degrees of pressure sensitivity, an eraser and tilt recognition. This is the first time iReader has introduced a stylus with tilt support, which means you can do sha … | Continue reading
Piracy continues to plague the entertainment industry, with manga perhaps being among the worst hit. As ComicBook stated, a recent report has revealed the staggering cost of piracy to the manga industry stands at a whopping $2.4 billion USD in 2023. This should give you an idea o … | Continue reading
Textbook prices have almost tripled over the past four decades, turning these books into financial burdens. Moving from print to digital college textbooks was supposed to address the problem. But it seems to create more problems than it was expected to solve. First of all, textbo … | Continue reading
One of the best ways to learn a language is by listening to it. That’s where Beelinguapp stands out. Beelinguapp uses audiobooks to help you understand both the written and spoken word. It provides you with audio in foreign languages as well as their text so you can read along, k … | Continue reading
Think of shadow libraries and the names likely to come to mind include the likes of Z Library, Anna’s Archive, Bibliotik, Sci-Hub, or Libgen. Almost all have been sued for distributing copyrighted content without sparing a thought on ways to compensate the authors who created the … | Continue reading
Apple News+ is a monthly subscription that gives users premium access to articles from major media outlets and hundreds of digital magazines. A new Consumer Intelligence Research Partners report shows Apple News+ is growing its subscription rate about four times faster than major … | Continue reading
The Pocketbook Era Color is a brand-new e-reader that is available now. This device has the same form factor as the normal Pocketbook Era, except for a Kaleido 3-color e-paper display. What are the major selling points? 3. Audiobook support, built-in speaker, Text-to-Speech funct … | Continue reading
One of the best things about e-book libraries, or for that matter, any book library, is that you can have all the books you need without having to buy any of them. However, there are certain rules you need to abide by, the prime among which is the need to return the e-book within … | Continue reading
A 2023 Consumer survey by BookNet Canada highlighted rising prices and buying trends in the country. Around 48% of 4,270 participants said they bought new books in 2023, 22 percent of whom say they bought secondhand books, and 24 percent of whom say they borrowed books from the l … | Continue reading
According to recordings of internal meetings shared with the New York Times, the tech giant Meta held discussions over the potential acquisition of prominent book publisher Simon & Schuster for Advanced AI training. From the recordings, it was found that the company’s staff had d … | Continue reading
According to several surveys, the average American reads 12-14 books per year. However, this includes books that people might start but not necessarily finish. The median suggests that the average American completes about 4-5 books per year. These numbers have been on a slight de … | Continue reading
In a strategic move to diversify its publishing portfolio, Panini, the renowned European magazine distributor, has unveiled a groundbreaking new venture in the UK market — Panini Manga, the website BleedingCool reported. Renowned for holding exclusive rights to Marvel and Star Wa … | Continue reading
Here is a curious case of one PocketBook device that seems to have hit a downward spiral so far as its price and popularity are concerned. It is the PocketBook InkPad X Pro that is being referred to here that was launched just last August. That makes it relatively fresh though th … | Continue reading
Tianma, a major global player in the display segment recently showcased its micro-Fluidic e-paper display at the Displayweek 2024 event. The company in fact had two micro-Fluidic e-paper panels on display at the event. One is monochrome and the other color though beyond that, bot … | Continue reading
Onyx Boox completed its latest Series B funding wherein it announced it has raised funds to the tune of tens of millions of US dollars. The Chinese company said it intends to use the funds for R&D purposes and launch new innovative products in the future. This, it hopes, will hel … | Continue reading
E Ink had earlier projected a brighter long-term prospect of amassing higher profits thanks to a general shift towards color e-paper displays though its immediate impact has led to it taking a 25 percent hit on its profits, Taipei Times reported. The company said profits for Q1 2 … | Continue reading
Z-Library, considered the world’s largest shadow library organization introduced several new features aimed at providing a better overall user experience. One of the features the library said on its Telegram page they have come up with, and which it said has long been requested b … | Continue reading
The Kindle Oasis happens to be one of the most loved Kindle models though unfortunately, Amazon chose to discontinue the same for reasons best known to them. That said, there is still a chance to snag up the Oasis, and that too for half the price. Thanks to Amazon’s Memorial Day … | Continue reading
The Bigme HiBreak E Ink smartphone is all set to go on sale starting May 31. As is already known, there is going to be a black and white and color version of the phone, with each version again coming in two memory and storage size configurations. Prices, as ITHome reported, start … | Continue reading
Pocketbook has just released a compelling piece of e-reader hardware that will impress. This is a dedicated e-reader and e-notebook running Google Android 11 and, for the first time, full access to the Google Play Store. You can read all of your digital content in full, vibrant c … | Continue reading
Inkplate 6 Motion happens to be the newest member of the Inkplate family of wireless e-paper displays. Manufactured by Soldered Electronics, the new Inkplate 6 Motion comes across as a compact e-paper display unit powered by an STMicroelectronics dual-core STM32H743 microcontroll … | Continue reading
The Mudita Pure, for those who might be unversed in it, is a phone featuring an E Ink display. It harks back to the days when so-called dumb phones used to be the norm while the smartphone was still a sci-fi thing. The E Ink display does its bit in allowing for a soft and […] The … | Continue reading
Pocketbook has been working on a significant deal for the past year. They have just become a substantial shareholder and co-owner of Bigme, a Chinese brand with a strong track record in releasing e-readers and e-notebooks with E INK screens. This is the first considerable acquisi … | Continue reading
Purchasing books via the Kindle app was no longer possible on Android thanks to Amazon’s imposed restriction, citing the high cut-off money that Google demanded. However, as Android Authority stated, things likely are set for a change given that one of its readers based in Italy … | Continue reading