E-reading Tech

Well, here’s a surprise. Through no fault of my own, I managed to get Android 6.01 Marshmallow running on my Nook HD. The guide I wrote to installing KitKat, then Lollipop, on...

Samsung's much-rumored foldable (or bendable, or rollable) smartphone could be slated for a market debut next year, according to a Bloomberg report. Quoting the customary "people familiar with the matter," Bloomberg...

Makerspaces are sprouting up in public libraries across the country. The best ones teem with powerful computers, 3D printers, high-speed Internet hookups, and other tools for techies, business people and creators like artists. Library makerspaces in cities such...

Why isn’t anyone innovating in the e-book market? More importantly, is there any reason why anyone should innovate? Jason Illian, founder and CEO of Bookshout!, poses the former question in a...

Do you remember when Amazon introduced both “Look Inside” and “Search Inside” functionality for books? They were such simple yet revolutionary features at the time. Before Look/Search Inside, it was impossible to...

On AndroidPIT, Chris Marshall writes a stirring defense of reading on smartphones, in which he brings up and counters the chief objections to reading a novel on such a small screen....

While I was busy at the Brain Bar Budapest conference over the weekend, my Amazon Fire tablet quietly updated itself to Fire OS 5.1.4. But does the new OS bring many changes? And...

Yesterday I betook myself out in the rain, along with several dozen other people, to participate in an Ingress First Saturday event at a local outdoor art museum. The purpose of...

I love an author who can roll with the times. The heroine of The Obsession, by Nora Roberts (photo), is a tech-savvy, e-book reading photographer. Naomi Carson is delightful and made this otherwise...

Courtney Adamo, parenting blogger and mother of what's been dubbed "Britain's most stylish brood," has put up a new blog post announcing a family partnership with Amazon's Audible, and speaking about...