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7 Alternative Appstores for Your Android Tablet or eReader

Nathan — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:22:04 +0000

Below you will find a list of seven places to download and install Android apps for your Android tablet, phone, or ereader, including the Kindle Fire, Kobo Vox, rooted Nook Touch, Pandigital tablets, and pretty much any other device that allows the installation of third party apps. Since a lot of tablets don’t come with [...]

How Often Do You Charge Your eReader or Tablet?

Nathan — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:01:51 +0000

Battery life for ereaders and tablets is a big selling point. The longer a battery can last without needing to be charged the better. In fact, that’s one of the reasons E Ink ereaders are so popular: their battery only needs to be charged about once every two to eight weeks, even if you use [...]

Kindle Touch Now Available Internationally; Kindle Fire Refurbs $179

Nathan — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:51:27 +0000

There’s some good Kindle news to report this morning. First, Amazon has finally started rolling out the Kindle Touch to countries outside the US. Second, Amazon has started selling refurbished Kindle Fires for $179. Despite the lack of an official announcement, the product page for the WiFi Kindle Touch now has the option to select [...]

Progress Being Made on CM7 for Nook Tablet (Video)

Nathan — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:34:03 +0000

Good news for Nook Tablet owners. A lot of progress is being made on getting custom ROMs up and running on the Nook Tablet ever since devs cracked the Nook Tablet’s locked bootloader. The devs at XDA have even managed to get CM7 to run on the Nook Tablet, although there are still a few [...]

A Look at A Game of Thrones, the Enhanced eBook Edition

Nathan — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:08:59 +0000

As ebooks continue to evolve, publishers and authors are coming up with new ways to add enhanced content to them, such as audio and video and other potentially distracting goodies. A Game of Thrones, the first book in George Martin’s epic A Song of Fire and Ice series, is now available as an enhanced ebook, [...]

Sales and Deals: Tablets and eReaders (1/31/12)

Nathan — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:45:43 +0000

It’s been a while since I’ve done a sales and deals post. Aside from a few deals here and there, since Christmas there really hasn’t been very many sales on ereaders and tablets. Today there seems to be enough going on to scrape out a daily deals post. If you happen to find a good [...]

Some New Games and Active Content for Kindle eBook Readers

Nathan — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:20:12 +0000

Perusing the Kindle store this morning, I noticed several new Kindle games and active content available for Kindle E Ink ereaders. I also noticed some of the older games have been updated to support the Kindle 4 and Kindle Touch. So if you have either of the new Kindles, now would be a good time [...]

GelaSkins Now Sells Matte-Finish Skins for eReaders

Nathan — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:19:38 +0000

I received an email from GelaSkins the other day about how they now sell all their ereader skins with a velvety matte finish instead of the usual gloss finish. The matte finish helps to eliminate glare, of course, an always important factor with ebook readers. The change only affects ereader skins; all the other skins [...]

Another New Firmware Update for Sony Reader PRS-T1

Nathan — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:14:25 +0000

Sony has issued another firmware update for the Sony PRS-T1 that enhances performance and addresses an issue that some folks have when turning pages using the touchscreen and having it mysteriously activate the dictionary instead. This update is the second in the past two months. In the past Sony was notorious for seldom releasing firmware [...]

Firmware Update for PocketBook Pro eReaders Adds Multitasking and Other New Features

Nathan — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:43:35 +0000

Earlier in the week, PocketBook’s RSS feed pinged about new firmware for the PocketBook Pro line of ebook readers. The actual news article is dated December 16th and the firmware is dated December 15th, so who knows why they waited so long to announce it officially. The new firmware, version 2.1.2, is for the PocketBook [...]

Three Ways to Expand the Kindle Fire’s Limited Storage Space

Nathan — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:29:24 +0000

The Kindle Fire is Amazon’s first tablet and while it has a lot of good things going for it, one of the three biggest disappointments with the Kindle Fire is the fact that it comes with just 5.37 GB of available storage space (plus an additional 1.17 GB for apps) and doesn’t have any memory [...]

PocketBook Announces New PocketBook A 7″ Tablet

Nathan — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:10:26 +0000

PocketBook International recently introduced a new tablet called the PocketBook A 7″, which is essentially a smaller version of the PocketBook A10 that was shown at IFA back in early September. As the name implies, the new PocketBook tablet has a 7″ screen. In fact, it has the same screen size and resolution as the [...]

Kindle Fire: How to Get Sideloaded eBooks to Appear in eBook Library

Nathan — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:20:27 +0000

When it comes to reading ebooks, the Kindle Fire is a lot different than other Kindles. For one, the Kindle Fire automatically sequesters sideloaded ebooks and documents from Kindle Books, making them appear in a separate section for documents instead of the main ebook library list. Thanks to Calibre, there is an easy fix for [...]

The Best 7″ Tablet of 2012 Could be the Asus Eee Pad MeMo 370T

Nathan — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:11:31 +0000

At CES 2012, Asus unveiled what has a chance to be one of the best 7″ tablets of the year, the Asus Eee Pad MeMo. The Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet better watch their backs. What makes the Asus Eee Pad MeMo so attractive is the combination of high-end specs and low price, not to [...]

iBooks 2 Brings Interactive Textbooks to the iPad (Videos)

Nathan — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:50:21 +0000

The big news this week was Apple taking a big step into the eduction sector by releasing a new updated version of iBooks that supports interactive digital textbooks on the iPad. Apple also introduced iBooks Author, a new app for Mac for creating and publishing those fancy new digital textbooks, along with cookbooks, picture books, [...]