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Last month, Switzerland’s PocketBook announced the release of the InkPad Color, an e-reader built around E Ink’s newest color screen technology. We’ve been sent one for review.Continue ReadingCategory: Mobile Technology, TechnologyTags: E-reader, Color… Continue reading Review: Reading in color with the PocketBook InkPad Color
Barnes & Noble has joined forces with Lenovo to relaunch its 10.1-inch tablet, offering bookworms a “best of both worlds” reading experience, with access to millions of ebooks through the Barnes & Noble app as well as everything you’d expect from a mod… Continue reading Barnes & Noble taps Lenovo for design of new Nook tablet
Swiss e-reader maker PocketBook has launched a new device called the InkPad Color that’s reckoned to be the first e-reader to sport the latest 7.8-inch color screen technology from E Ink.Continue ReadingCategory: Mobile Technology, TechnologyTags: E-re… Continue reading PocketBook’s latest e-reader first to use new E Ink color display tech
Touchscreen devices like tablets and smartphones can be a great way to take notes on the fly or quickly sketch out a plan, but constant pings from notifications and alerts, coupled with a seemingly endless stream of ads, don’t exactly help with focus. … Continue reading Review: Getting a feel for paper on a digital tablet with reMarkable 2
Though typing and drawing on a colorful touchscreen tablet can get the job done, some prefer to jot ideas down using pen and paper. reMarkable combined the two in 2016 with a real paper look and feel, but digital tech running the show. Now the second g… Continue reading reMarkable brings real paper feel to digital doodling
CircuitPython reached a major milestone last week as it welcomed its 100th board into the fold: the wristwatch form factored badge designed for the 10th annual Open Source Hardware Summit, which takes place March 13th in New York City. Although CircuitPython — an open source derivative of MicroPython — was …read more
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You don’t have to be an avid bookworm to find use for an e-book reader. Take your local wedding band for example: with a big repertoire of songs to cover, you don’t really want to drag huge folders full of chords and lyrics around, tediously browsing through them to find the correct one for every new song. Even the biggest tree corpse enthusiast cannot deny the comfort of an e-book reader here. And since turning the page boils down to simply changing the content on a display, you don’t necessarily need to use your hands for that either. With that …read more
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One of the biggest advantages of e-readers such as the Kindle is the fact that it doesn’t weigh as much as a traditional hardcover book, much less the thousands of books it can hold in digital form. Which is especially nice if you drop the thing on your face while reading in bed. But as light and easy to use as the Kindle is, you still need to hold it in your hands and interact with it like some kind of a baby’s toy.
Looking for a way to operate the Kindle without having to go through the exhaustive effort …read more
People love books, and if you’re anything like [tjaap]’s girlfriend, you may easily devour your eighty books and more a year. Maybe to keep better track of time during her reading sessions, her wish was to get a clock for the living room, so [tjaap] stepped up. Being a maker at heart, he decided to skip the ready-made options, and instead build one in the most fitting way imaginable: by displaying the time as literary quotes on a jailbroken Kindle.
Unlike your average word clock, [tjaap]’s literary clock displays (almost) every minute a different sentence that, in one form or …read more
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Free and open source software (FOSS) was a recurring theme during many of the talks during the HOPE XII conference, which should probably come as no surprise. Hackers aren’t big fans of being monitored by faceless corporate overlords or being told what they can and cannot do on the hardware they purchased. Replacing proprietary software with FOSS alternatives is a way to put control back into the hands of the user, so naturally many of the talks pushed the idea.
In most cases that took the form of advising you to move your Windows or Mac OS computer over to …read more
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