First Impressions: Amazon's Kindle Fire Tablet and Cheaper, Smaller,...
Today at an event in New York City (which we live-tweeted--check out @PopSci for more), Amazon announced its new family of Kindles, and it's probably the biggest, or at least most visible, update in...
View Article$80 Kindle Review: Worth the Price and Then Some
Take the 3rd-generation Kindle, probably the best ebook reader ever made. Chop off the keyboard, trim the sides a bit, rearrange the buttons. Sell for eighty bucks. Correction: sell about a billion of...
View ArticleAmazon Lets Kindle Owners Borrow One Free Book Per Month at the Lending Library
Amazon announced yet another perk for those who've taken the plunge into Amazon Prime today: The Kindle Owner's Lending Library. Regular library ebooks have only recently become available on Kindle,...
View ArticleFirst Impressions: Barnes & Noble's New Nook Tablet and SimpleTouch Ebook Reader
Today at an event in New York, Barnes & Noble's CEO showed off the company's new tablet: the Nook Tablet. The name signals a change--this isn't an ebook reader with a color…
View ArticleAmazon Kindle Touch Review: Should You Touch Your Books?
The Kindle Touch is Amazon's top-of-the-line e-ink reader, a compromise between a tablet like the Kindle Fire (easy typing, faster navigation) and the e-ink, single-focus ebook reader named simply...
View ArticleHands-On: Barnes & Noble's Nook Simple Touch With GlowLight, Uh, Glows, With...
Today, Barnes & Noble announced a new upgrade to the (pretty excellent) Nook Simple Touch ebook reader: illumination. The Simple Touch With GlowLight, as it'll be called, is in just about every...
View ArticleAmazon's New Kindles Include Tablets, Insanely Cheap Prices
Amazon presented its new Kindle lineup in Los Angeles today, and there are a whole bunch of new rectangles for you to read and watch and work and play on, which I'll get into after the jump. But the...
View Article5 Reasons Why The Kindle's Touchscreen Is Worse Than Buttons
To get it out of the way: Kindle rules. But, Amazon's flagship Kindle, now the Kindle Paperwhite, continues a trend that very much does not rule: forcing us all to use a touchscreen to navigate an...
View ArticleAmazon Kindle Paperwhite Review: Read Books, At Night
The Kindle has, since its second generation or so, been pretty much the easiest recommendation in tech. The new one, called the Kindle Paperwhite, is predictably great--though not perfect. WHAT'S NEW...
View ArticleEbook Readers Make Reading Easier For People With Dyslexia
A new study performed by the Smithsonian Institute found that ebook readers like the Amazon Kindle can actually help those with dyslexia with reading comprehension.
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