okay. “My hero is very smart. He meets the heroine at the local chapter meeting of Menses.” Where to put this query letter…hmmm
okay. “My hero is very smart. He meets the heroine at the local chapter meeting of Menses.” Where to put this query letter…hmmm
Filed under Stupid
Not natively, however:
Via a GelaSkin.
I wonder if that even works properly. The back of the Kobo isn’t flat. As they like to point out, it’s quilted, which basically means lightly bumpy. How would that skin fit?
I went on Flickr hoping to see an example of one, and was led to this blog post: Kobo and the Enamored Owl. Seems to work out.
Here’s the GelaSkins link for Keep Calm.
Kobo has also gotten in some slipcases. And see one of those here on Flickr.
Filed under Kobo Reader
The website URL — right now — redirects to the standard jetBook site, so perhaps this video is premature:
Weight – 5.8 ounces
Size – 5″ TFT
Battery Life – 90 hours! (Energizer Lithium batteries included)
New Interface Languages
New Format Support through Calibre
All-Way Screen Rotation Reading
Line Spacing options
Built-in clock
No mention of Adobe DRM being built-in. US$99.00 MSRP.
Update: Nate the Great of The Digital Reader pointed me to the product page.
Filed under Other Hardware
This is very, very clever:
Delight your kids with the FREE Lillian Vernon eBook mobile application. Dusty D. Dawg shows how he handles a wide range of feelings. You can personalize it by adding your child’s name, photo, record a voice reading the book, or use the pre-recorded voice that comes with the book. New stories will be added every few months… and did we already mention that they’re FREE?
Filed under Digital Book
Well, look what showed up on YouTube less than 24 hours ago!
This is the website.
Until I know some specs — CPU, OS — and can see some of the eBook reading functionality, I can’t say anything other than a LCD is not the best thing to have outdoors.
Update: Whoa. I jumped too soon! There’s a second model, called the Next2 and it states it uses Android:
Since the eBook reader has pagecurl, I suspect this is Barnes & Noble’s Nook for Android software.
Filed under eBooks: General, Other Hardware, Video
My patience with Sony has reached an end. Sony’s “Reader Library” is a miserable piece of unstable, unreliable software. Google “sony reader library problems” and you get over a quarter-million hits. MobileRead has some good forum threads discussing how to fix problems with the software (generally involving uninstalling the software via Windows Control Panel and then dumpster diving in your primary drive to locate and delete a mess of hidden files which Sony’s installer put there but doesn’t remove. Then you get to reinstall everything, download all your ebooks, and pray it all works.
via Goodbye, Sony
This is what happens when you let things fester. While Sony’s Howard Stringer does ADD-like flitting, first pimping expensive Tiffanyesque OLED TVs and then Who Asked For This? 3D TVs, the fundamentals of the company are ignored, left to rot, and customers continue to be lost.
Filed under Uncategorized
This is not comprehensive, but those currently in the OK to Buy category are unlikely to lose their spots between now and the end of the year. There are a few more tablets due to arrive, but it’s too early to list them here.
eReaders
OK to Buy:
Amazon Kindle 3 (WiFi or WiFi/3G)
Sony Reader 350 and 650
Kobo Reader
Avoid:
Barnes & Noble Nook (see why)
ECTACO jetBook
Aluratek Libre
Augen The Book
Pandigital Novel (both models — white and black)
Cruz Reader
All the other crap coming out
Tablets:
OK to Buy:
iPad
Samsung Galaxy Tab
Might be worth buying (awaiting reviews):
Archos 70 Internet Tablet
Archos 101 Internet Tablet
ViewSonic Viewpad 7
Cruz Tablet (very iffy)
Avoid:
Pandigital Novel (both models — white and black)
Cruz Reader
Augen Gentouch 78
SmartQ T7
Filed under eBooks: General, eInk Devices, Other Hardware
Crash! Bam! Pow!
But … how come I never run into women who read who look like that? And I don’t know of any woman who buys sunglasses that expensive.
Filed under Amazon Kindle
“Publishers are relevant. We have practical expertise and, of course, money. We give our authors advances which enable them to concentrate on their work in hand … My idea of hell is a website with 80,000 self-published works on it – some of which might be jewels, but, frankly, who’s got the time? What people want is selection and frankly that’s what we do.”
via How Gail Rebuck turned Tony Blair’s book into a bestseller | Media | The Guardian
Filed under Books: General, eBooks: General, Marketing, Quoted