How to send Instapaper articles to your Kindle
If you use Instapaper to clip interesting articles from the web for later perusal, did you know that you can have your Instapaper article collection sent to your Kindle every day?...
Google needs to add some customer service
For as long as I’ve used Google products and services, like Android, Gmail, Google Documents, and so on, one aspect of the company has frustrated me to a singular extent. There’s...
Why do teens prefer printed books to e-books? ‘We just do!’
The Guardian has an interesting essay by a teen writer from the Guardian children’s books site entitled “Why teenagers are so resistant to e-readers.” (The writer posts under a handle and...
Is Amazon’s Kindle Oasis a complete waste of money?
That's one of the more active debates on the Kboards right now, kicked off by Kboards member denodan, who declares: "What a ripoff the Oasis about $100 more than the voyage....
Do you use Amazon’s VoiceView on your Fire? If not, here’s how
Amazon's new VoiceView text-to-speech technology, as recently explained by Peter Korn (at least for Kindles) on TeleRead, doesn't seem to have impinged much on e-reading awareness yet. Yes, it is relatively...
Why not a smartphone with a keypad?
The other day, I pondered what Motorola’s mysterious new video promoting the old RAZR flip-phones might mean, with one possible guess being a smartphone that had a ten-key keypad beneath it....
Asus Transformer keyboard tablet transforms away from using Android
Tablets are the new laptop, it seems. The new hot story on the tech press today concerns Asus’s new Transformer 3 hybrid tablet-plus-keyboards—sleek, expensive Windows 10 devices that seem to be...
The Kindle Oasis: A doorway into awfulness?
A short but fascinating YouTube video, brought to light on the Kboards, reviews the Amazon Kindle Oasis in glowing terms - at least regarding its hardware. There's just one tiny problem....
The 28-disc e-book and other stories from charity event honoring OverDrive CEO Steve Potash
Imagine---a 28-disc e-book read with a desktop-sized computer. That's what OverDrive CEO Steve Potash, whom TeleRead profiled at length this month, recalls talking up to New York publishers in 1986.
A Library Journal account of a May...
Wrist tablet raises the obvious question: why not just strap on a smartphone?
Want to read e-books on your wrist? It might be a better idea to strap your phone to it than to invest in a miniature tablet designed with that purpose in...
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A sad tale of Amazon monetization: eReaderIQ and the affiliate program
Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...
