How Barnes & Noble stole the first e-book I ever bought
Sit right back and I’ll tell a tale—a tale of a fateful e-book.
Back in 1998, I was attending college at Southwest Missouri State University for the second time. (It’s since dropped...
All hail Amazon’s new 16GB Fire – now with added bigness inside
With all the excitement over Amazon's pending new Kindle, you may not have noticed that Amazon has also released a new, 16GB version of its $50 7" Fire. This isn't, alas,...
Yes, Amazon’s $50 Fire WILL do USB OTG (updated)
(Corrected, with new headline: Yes, we find that the $50 Fire can do USB On-The-Go, so we've removed the post from tiles at the top of our home page. See Chris Meadows's...
Scribd will change its subscription service from unlimited to semi-unlimited
Scribd has just announced it is making another change to its “unlimited subscription” business model beginning next month. It’s going to be moving from a fully-unlimited model to a hybrid limited/unlimited...
DRM nightmare: After recent upgrade, Kobo customers report losing Sony books from their libraries
I mentioned my trouble with losing one of my eReader e-books from Barnes & Noble a few weeks back. In that case, the matter was resolved amicably, but it seems Barnes...
Review: iClever Foldable Bluetooth Keyboard is a handy, robust accessory
A handy little peripheral arrived by Amazon delivery for review this morning. The iClever Foldable Bluetooth Ultra-slim Mini Wireless Keyboard is a shiny aluminum tri-folding accessory that claims to be the...
Review: Hoopla Digital is a great ‘add-on’ for your library
We’ve carried a few stories about Hoopla Digital before—when we discussed its app adding Chromecast support last year, or when it added e-books in 2014. Hoopla is a digital media streaming...
iPad mini 4: Perfect e-reader for you? It is for me!
Last year I switched from an iPad 4 to an iPad mini 4 and wrote about my new tablet as a great writing device. I still feel that way. What I hadn’t anticipated is that...
The RCA Voyager II tablet is cheap but potentially usable
The nice thing about Android is that it is largely device-agnostic, and the last few revisions of it have been more or less cosmetic. Any version of Android you get from...
Apple allows old iOS devices to install ‘last compatible version’ of newer apps
This is a slightly old story, but I thought it was worth following up on when I had the chance. A few weeks ago, Apple quietly added a new feature to...