Everybody loves them some eBooks. Cramming a whole library in one device with easy access to yet more tomes is the kind of convenience that’s pushed the digital reading to the fore, but there are still drawbacks that you don’t get with a real book. Navigation is one such failing, but that could be set to change with a prototype technology making flicking through books and gesture-based page-turning possible and intuitive. Read more
Got a new Amazon Kindle for Christmas, but spent all your cash on pressies for your friends and family? Fear not. The incredible Project Gutenberg is absolutely chock full of freebies: 36,000 to be precise. And among those thousands of gratis reads are some of the greatest classics ever written. So what are you waiting for? Dive in and we’ll take you through six stunning titles that you should download and read now.
Merry Christmas! Just unwrapped an Amazon Kindle 4? Welcome to the world of digital bookwormery! The new eReading dream machine may have ditched the physical keyboard found on its predecessor, but it’s still got some real tricks up its sleeve. Read more
The Amazon Kindle Fire is getting a UK release. We thought it would never happen, but a source inside Amazon UK has revealed that the Atlantic discrepancy is to come to an end with the 7-inch tab landing early next year. Read more
The Kobo reader: you may have seen posters about it over the past few months. It’s been trying to steal the attentions of Amazon Kindle buyers in the run up to Christmas. That aim may have just been given a shot in the arm, as Asda’s just become the first UK supermarket to stock the Kobo – at a frankly insane price. Read more
The Amazon Kindle Fire is now on sale in the US and is enjoying a supplier-worryingly large number of sales, both thanks to its incredibly low price point and slick overall offering. Now an 8.9-inch Amazon Kindle Fire 2 has been rumoured for a June 2012 launch. Here’s what it’ll need to have to survive the tablet market gauntlet. Read more
The Amazon Kindle Fire hasn’t even been given a UK release date yet, and our US gadget-loving brethren don’t get their hands on it until tomorrow. But news has emerged from the Far East of plans for a follow-up. Read on to see just what’s planned for the Amazon Kindle Fire 2.
The new Amazon Kindle eInk digital book reader has just been unveiled in the US. Unlike its Android-powered tablet brother, the Kindle Fire, this smaller monochrome device is coming to the UK, for the absurdly low price of £89. Thing is, lucky Yanks will be playing even less.
