AMAZON WILL STOP ACCEPTING* MOBI FILES IN JUNE Amazon has announced that soon it will no longer accept* Mobi files in KDP. They just sent out an email informing authors and publishers that Epub and Doc are now the preferred formats: We listened to your feedback and are making it simpler to publish eBooks on Kindle. Starting June 28, 2021, we will no longer support files in MOBI, PRC

or AZK

HOW TO INSTALL CUSTOM DICTIONARIES ON YOUR KOBO EREADERSEE MORE ON THE-DIGITAL-READER.COM LCD SCREENS CANNOT BE READ OUTSIDE, AND OTHER NONSENSE LCD Screens Cannot be Read Outside, And Other Nonsense. 25 February, 2012. 8 June, 2017. e-Reading Hardware 20 Comments. A reader left a comment this morning on another post, and after reading it I was inspired to respond to it in a post. The crux of the comment was repetition of a couple pieces of marketing nonsense created by E-ink: HERE'S HOW KINDLE'S NEW READ/UNREAD SETTING WORKS Here’s How Kindle’s New Read/Unread Setting Works. When Amazon announced the new Kindle a few weeks back, one of the features mentioned in the footnotes was that the new device would have the option to filter your library for books that you either had or had not read. As you can probably guess, I was one of many who were excited to

see this

EIGHT TIPS FOR EXTENDING THE BATTERY LIFE ON YOUR KINDLE 7. Reduce the font size, and line spacing. This may sound silly but if you have more text on the screen, you will be able to go longer between page turn, and each time you turn the page you will get further into the ebook. 8. Turn it off! The last and most important way to expend the battery life of your ereader is to simply shut it

down.

AMAZON KINDLE OASIS NOW $175 (FOR PRIME SUBSCRIBERS) Amazon Kindle Oasis Now $175 (for Prime Subscribers) 13 October, 2020. 13 October, 2020. e-Reading Hardware, Fire, Kindle 3 Comments. Today is Prime Day, which is basically a version of Black Friday where Amazon offers deals exclusively to Amazon Prime subscribers. While some of Amazon’s “sales” are fairly run of the mill, today’s

deals

EBOOK RESALE RULED ILLEGAL IN THE EU (ACTUALLY, NO, IT eBook Resale Ruled Illegal in the EU (Actually, No, It Hasn’t) For the past seven years it has been legal to resell software in Europe under what is known as the “UsedSoft” decision, a court ruling that was reaffirmed in a similar case in 2016. Perhaps inspired by that ruling, a Dutch startup called Tom Kabinet launched a marketplace

in

HOW TO SEE THE EBOOKS YOU’VE BORROWED IN PRIME READING AND Another way to see what you’ve borrowed is to go to your Manage My Content and Devices page. There’s a dropdown menu in the upper left corner that includes options for Prime Reading and Kindle Unlimited. On this page you can see the ebooks and audiobooks you are currently borrowing as well as the titles you have returned. THOUSANDS OF EBOOKS HAVE DISAPPEARED FROM AMAZON.COM I am about to give a few thousand authors a really terrible morning. Numerous authors are reporting. both on Facebook and in private discussions, that their ebooks have disappeared from Amazon.com. I have read first hand over a half-dozen reports KINDLE FIRE NOW SUPPORTS EXTERNAL FLASH DRIVES (KINGSTON Yesterday they announced that they’d released an app for the Kindle Fire which adds support for the Kingston Wi-Drive. The Wi-Drive is one of the many Flash storage solutions offered by Kingston.As you can probably guess from the name, it has both USB and Wifi, and that means that you can access one by being on the same Wifi network. AMAZON WILL STOP ACCEPTING* MOBI FILES IN JUNE Amazon has announced that soon it will no longer accept* Mobi files in KDP. They just sent out an email informing authors and publishers that Epub and Doc are now the preferred formats: We listened to your feedback and are making it simpler to publish eBooks on Kindle. Starting June 28, 2021, we will no longer support files in MOBI, PRC

or AZK

HOW TO INSTALL CUSTOM DICTIONARIES ON YOUR KOBO EREADERSEE MORE ON THE-DIGITAL-READER.COM LCD SCREENS CANNOT BE READ OUTSIDE, AND OTHER NONSENSE LCD Screens Cannot be Read Outside, And Other Nonsense. 25 February, 2012. 8 June, 2017. e-Reading Hardware 20 Comments. A reader left a comment this morning on another post, and after reading it I was inspired to respond to it in a post. The crux of the comment was repetition of a couple pieces of marketing nonsense created by E-ink: HERE'S HOW KINDLE'S NEW READ/UNREAD SETTING WORKS Here’s How Kindle’s New Read/Unread Setting Works. When Amazon announced the new Kindle a few weeks back, one of the features mentioned in the footnotes was that the new device would have the option to filter your library for books that you either had or had not read. As you can probably guess, I was one of many who were excited to

see this

EIGHT TIPS FOR EXTENDING THE BATTERY LIFE ON YOUR KINDLE 7. Reduce the font size, and line spacing. This may sound silly but if you have more text on the screen, you will be able to go longer between page turn, and each time you turn the page you will get further into the ebook. 8. Turn it off! The last and most important way to expend the battery life of your ereader is to simply shut it

down.

AMAZON KINDLE OASIS NOW $175 (FOR PRIME SUBSCRIBERS) Amazon Kindle Oasis Now $175 (for Prime Subscribers) 13 October, 2020. 13 October, 2020. e-Reading Hardware, Fire, Kindle 3 Comments. Today is Prime Day, which is basically a version of Black Friday where Amazon offers deals exclusively to Amazon Prime subscribers. While some of Amazon’s “sales” are fairly run of the mill, today’s

deals

EBOOK RESALE RULED ILLEGAL IN THE EU (ACTUALLY, NO, IT eBook Resale Ruled Illegal in the EU (Actually, No, It Hasn’t) For the past seven years it has been legal to resell software in Europe under what is known as the “UsedSoft” decision, a court ruling that was reaffirmed in a similar case in 2016. Perhaps inspired by that ruling, a Dutch startup called Tom Kabinet launched a marketplace

in

HOW TO SEE THE EBOOKS YOU’VE BORROWED IN PRIME READING AND Another way to see what you’ve borrowed is to go to your Manage My Content and Devices page. There’s a dropdown menu in the upper left corner that includes options for Prime Reading and Kindle Unlimited. On this page you can see the ebooks and audiobooks you are currently borrowing as well as the titles you have returned. THOUSANDS OF EBOOKS HAVE DISAPPEARED FROM AMAZON.COM I am about to give a few thousand authors a really terrible morning. Numerous authors are reporting. both on Facebook and in private discussions, that their ebooks have disappeared from Amazon.com. I have read first hand over a half-dozen reports KINDLE FIRE NOW SUPPORTS EXTERNAL FLASH DRIVES (KINGSTON Yesterday they announced that they’d released an app for the Kindle Fire which adds support for the Kingston Wi-Drive. The Wi-Drive is one of the many Flash storage solutions offered by Kingston.As you can probably guess from the name, it has both USB and Wifi, and that means that you can access one by being on the same Wifi network. HOW TO EMBED AN EBOOK ON A WEBSITE (2020 EDITION) I was browsing through my blog’s archives this morning when I came across an old post from 2014 on embedding ebooks in a web page. I was surprised to discover that I haven’t touched on this topic in the

past six years.

DO YOU WANT PAGE TURN BUTTONS ON YOUR EREADER? Even when you’re holding your ereader with your thumb or finger off the screen, it’s easy for your finger to slip onto the screen and cause inadvertent page turns. And now Amazon has recognized that fact, and brought page turns buttons back into vogue with the Kindle Oasis. This $290 ereader hearkens back to an early ereader, the Rocket eBook. REVIEW: EPUBOR EBOOK MANAGER While Epubor is primarily marketed as a DRM-stripping tool, it does have library ebook management features. You can edit an ebook’s metadata, give it a rating, add a note or introduction, and change the cover image. Epubor also includes an online ebook reader, and it can convert DRM-free ebooks between Epub, Kindle, and PDF formats. EIGHT TIPS FOR EXTENDING THE BATTERY LIFE ON YOUR KINDLE 7. Reduce the font size, and line spacing. This may sound silly but if you have more text on the screen, you will be able to go longer between page turn, and each time you turn the page you will get further into the ebook. 8. Turn it off! The last and most important way to expend the battery life of your ereader is to simply shut it

down.

HOW TO SEND WEB CONTENT DIRECTLY TO YOUR KINDLE (UPDATED The official plugins can be found through Amazon, and installing them takes but a single click. Once the plugins are installed, you’ll be asked to log in to your Amazon account and configure the plugin. You’ll need to choose which devices you wish to send the webpage to, whether you want to also save the page to the Amazon Cloud Drive, etc. WHEN DID AMAZON START DEMANDING THAT YOU VERIFY YOUR Amazon’s free conversion service has been one of Kindle’s killer features ever since the Kindle launched in 2007. I have used it countless times over the years, but lately I have found that Amazon is throwing up roadblocks that limit how I use the service. HOW TO SEE THE EBOOKS YOU’VE BORROWED IN PRIME READING AND In some ways Kindle Unlimited is a victim of its own success. It offers a great value to readers, so much so that there are many readers who have read hundreds if not thousands of ebooks in the four and a half years since Kindle Unlimited launched. 8 WAYS FOR AUTHORS TO WASTE THEIR MONEY Email & Social Media Blast Services. Another great way for an author to waste their money would be to pay a service to tweet about the author’s book to a service’s million robofollowers on Twitter and Facebook, or pay to have a press release sent to 10,000+ news outlets. Here’s the thing about spam. Q & A: REVIVING/RECYCLING OLD SONY READERS (AND OTHER The following plea was posted over on MobileRead Forums yesterday, and I’m reposting it here in the hopes that we can crowd-source the best solution and help more people.. Several years ago, I gave my aunt a Sony PRS-600 reader. I was talking with her the other day, and she said that she hasn’t been able to get books for it for some time. KOBO IS ENDING SUPPORT FOR SONY READERS Kobo is a company built by booklovers for booklovers, and we will continue to expand on our reading experience, offering you cutting-edge eReaders, easy-to-use reading apps, and reading recommendations chosen just for you. After Kobo took over support for the Sony Readers, they released a firmware made the Sony Readers compatible with Kobo’s I KNOW WHY TECH GOES THUMP IN THE NIGHT I Write The Digital Reader is a news blog covering publishing, indie authors, ebooks, and ereaders. Read more >> AMAZON WILL STOP ACCEPTING* MOBI FILES IN JUNE Amazon has announced that soon it will no longer accept* Mobi files in KDP. They just sent out an email informing authors and publishers that Epub and Doc are now the preferred formats: We listened to your feedback and are making it simpler to publish eBooks on Kindle. Starting June 28, 2021, we will no longer support files in MOBI, PRC

or AZK

HOW TO INSTALL CUSTOM DICTIONARIES ON YOUR KOBO EREADERSEE MORE ON THE-DIGITAL-READER.COM HOW TO SEE THE EBOOKS YOU’VE BORROWED IN PRIME READING AND Another way to see what you’ve borrowed is to go to your Manage My Content and Devices page. There’s a dropdown menu in the upper left corner that includes options for Prime Reading and Kindle Unlimited. On this page you can see the ebooks and audiobooks you are currently borrowing as well as the titles you have returned. HERE'S HOW KINDLE'S NEW READ/UNREAD SETTING WORKS Here’s How Kindle’s New Read/Unread Setting Works. When Amazon announced the new Kindle a few weeks back, one of the features mentioned in the footnotes was that the new device would have the option to filter your library for books that you either had or had not read. As you can probably guess, I was one of many who were excited to

see this

THOUSANDS OF EBOOKS HAVE DISAPPEARED FROM AMAZON.COM I am about to give a few thousand authors a really terrible morning. Numerous authors are reporting. both on Facebook and in private discussions, that their ebooks have disappeared from Amazon.com. I have read first hand over a half-dozen reports HOW TO FIX YOUR 2017 AMAZON FIRE TABLET WHEN IT STOPS Open the Amazon Fire tablet’s setting menu. Choose the Appls & Games option. Tap Manage All Applications. Scroll to Appstore, and click it. Click on Force Stop, and then click OK to confirm. Then clear the cache, and reboot your tablet. If this doesn’t work, Liliputing posted an alternate set of instructions that involve forcing the Fire NEW KINDLE FIRE TABLET HAS A FASTER CPU, TWICE THE STORAGE That mysterious Amazon tablet that showed up on the FCC website last week now has a name, a price, and a ship date.. On Thursday Amazon announced a new 7″ Android tablet.The new Fire tablet has twice the storage of the last model, and a faster CPU, but aside from the bumped specs and new color options (black, blue, dried blood, and kale), the tablet remains largely unchanged. HOW TO REMOVE OLD KINDLES AND KINDLE APPS FROM YOUR Once you have perused the list, you can remove an app or device by clicking on the 3-dot menu to the left of an entry. Select the de-register option from the pop-up menu. Then, when you see the confirmation menu, click the orange button to confirm that you want to deregister the device. Boom. You’ve removed one more device from

your account.

AMAZON NOW FORCING CANADIAN KINDLE OWNERS TO SWITCH TO Amazon is a company that usually treats their customers quite well, so today’s news of their recent boneheaded maneuver comes as a shock. I have received multiple reports (here, here, here) today that Amazon is now refusing to allow their Canadian customers to buy Kindle ebooks from Amazon.com. Amazon has been selling Kindle ebooks to Canadians since the Kindle Store went international in I KNOW WHY TECH GOES THUMP IN THE NIGHT I Write The Digital Reader is a news blog covering publishing, indie authors, ebooks, and ereaders. Read more >> AMAZON WILL STOP ACCEPTING* MOBI FILES IN JUNE Amazon has announced that soon it will no longer accept* Mobi files in KDP. They just sent out an email informing authors and publishers that Epub and Doc are now the preferred formats: We listened to your feedback and are making it simpler to publish eBooks on Kindle. Starting June 28, 2021, we will no longer support files in MOBI, PRC

or AZK

HOW TO INSTALL CUSTOM DICTIONARIES ON YOUR KOBO EREADERSEE MORE ON THE-DIGITAL-READER.COM HOW TO SEE THE EBOOKS YOU’VE BORROWED IN PRIME READING AND Another way to see what you’ve borrowed is to go to your Manage My Content and Devices page. There’s a dropdown menu in the upper left corner that includes options for Prime Reading and Kindle Unlimited. On this page you can see the ebooks and audiobooks you are currently borrowing as well as the titles you have returned. HERE'S HOW KINDLE'S NEW READ/UNREAD SETTING WORKS Here’s How Kindle’s New Read/Unread Setting Works. When Amazon announced the new Kindle a few weeks back, one of the features mentioned in the footnotes was that the new device would have the option to filter your library for books that you either had or had not read. As you can probably guess, I was one of many who were excited to

see this

THOUSANDS OF EBOOKS HAVE DISAPPEARED FROM AMAZON.COM I am about to give a few thousand authors a really terrible morning. Numerous authors are reporting. both on Facebook and in private discussions, that their ebooks have disappeared from Amazon.com. I have read first hand over a half-dozen reports HOW TO FIX YOUR 2017 AMAZON FIRE TABLET WHEN IT STOPS Open the Amazon Fire tablet’s setting menu. Choose the Appls & Games option. Tap Manage All Applications. Scroll to Appstore, and click it. Click on Force Stop, and then click OK to confirm. Then clear the cache, and reboot your tablet. If this doesn’t work, Liliputing posted an alternate set of instructions that involve forcing the Fire NEW KINDLE FIRE TABLET HAS A FASTER CPU, TWICE THE STORAGE That mysterious Amazon tablet that showed up on the FCC website last week now has a name, a price, and a ship date.. On Thursday Amazon announced a new 7″ Android tablet.The new Fire tablet has twice the storage of the last model, and a faster CPU, but aside from the bumped specs and new color options (black, blue, dried blood, and kale), the tablet remains largely unchanged. HOW TO REMOVE OLD KINDLES AND KINDLE APPS FROM YOUR Once you have perused the list, you can remove an app or device by clicking on the 3-dot menu to the left of an entry. Select the de-register option from the pop-up menu. Then, when you see the confirmation menu, click the orange button to confirm that you want to deregister the device. Boom. You’ve removed one more device from

your account.

AMAZON NOW FORCING CANADIAN KINDLE OWNERS TO SWITCH TO Amazon is a company that usually treats their customers quite well, so today’s news of their recent boneheaded maneuver comes as a shock. I have received multiple reports (here, here, here) today that Amazon is now refusing to allow their Canadian customers to buy Kindle ebooks from Amazon.com. Amazon has been selling Kindle ebooks to Canadians since the Kindle Store went international in I KNOW WHY TECH GOES THUMP IN THE NIGHT I Write The Digital Reader is a news blog covering publishing, indie authors, ebooks, and ereaders. Read more >> 10 SITES FOR CREATING DIGITAL NEWSPAPERS Scribd – A very popular Web 2.0 site for creating online content and publishing. Fodey – A fun site to create a newspaper and then download to print out or put on a blog or site. Zinepal – A great way to bring the news to students by “clipping” online articles. This is a wonderful site for those making the move to ebook readers. AMAZON IS SHUTTING DOWN KINDLE The Kindle Direct Publishing Team. Launched in 2013, Kindle Matchbook was a program where authors and publishers had the option of creating ebook+print bundles that combine a Kindle ebook with a print book sold by Amazon. The ebook could be given away for free, or sold for $1.99 or $0.99. If you’ve never heard of this program, you’re not alone. HOW TO UPDATE YOUR OLDER KINDLES IF YOU MISSED THE OCTOBER Some tech companies such as Google may be prone to disabling their smart thermostats as soon as the warranties expire, but Amazon makes sure your older devices continue to function long after the point where they belong in a museum. HOW TO DELETE EBOOKS FROM YOUR KINDLE ACCOUNT ON AMAZON You can select multiple ebooks to be deleted at the same time, so do be careful. Selecting one or more ebooks will activate 3 orange buttons. Click the delete button. Then, in the confirmation menu, note the warning about permanent deletion, and then click the yes button. Boom, the ebooks are gone from your account. KINDLE ANDROID APP NOW LETS YOU STORE EBOOKS ON YOUR SD In the coming weeks, you will see the following: * Download books to your SD card to save storage space on your device. Go to Settings to get started. What this means is that we will finally be able to store our Kindle ebooks on an Android device’s external storage (SD card, microSD card, etc). Just to double check, I checked my phone, and Q & A: REVIVING/RECYCLING OLD SONY READERS (AND OTHER The following plea was posted over on MobileRead Forums yesterday, and I’m reposting it here in the hopes that we can crowd-source the best solution and help more people.. Several years ago, I gave my aunt a Sony PRS-600 reader. I was talking with her the other day, and she said that she hasn’t been able to get books for it for some time. ACX LAUNCHES IN CANADA, IRELAND ACX Launches in Canada, Ireland. 1 June, 2017. 1 June, 2017. Amazon, Audiobook, content creation Leave a comment. Launched in 2011, Audible Creation Exchange (ACX) is a marketplace where authors, publishers, narrators, and agents can connect and create audiobooks. For the past five years ACX has only ben open to residents of the US and UK, but HOW TO RETURN A KINDLE EBOOK YOU BOUGHT BY MISTAKE The one sure-fire way to get a refund is to visit the Manage Your Content & Devices page on Amazon. Select the Content tab, and then find the ebook you want to return. Click on the three dot ( ) button next to the book’s title. Next, select Return for Refund. A pop-up should appear, asking you to confirm that you want to complete the

return.

KINDLE FIRE NOW SUPPORTS EXTERNAL FLASH DRIVES (KINGSTON Yesterday they announced that they’d released an app for the Kindle Fire which adds support for the Kingston Wi-Drive. The Wi-Drive is one of the many Flash storage solutions offered by Kingston.As you can probably guess from the name, it has both USB and Wifi, and that means that you can access one by being on the same Wifi network. AMAZON WILL STOP ACCEPTING* MOBI FILES IN JUNE Amazon has announced that soon it will no longer accept* Mobi files in KDP. They just sent out an email informing authors and publishers that Epub and Doc are now the preferred formats: We listened to your feedback and are making it simpler to publish eBooks on Kindle. Starting June 28, 2021, we will no longer support files in MOBI, PRC

or AZK

HOW TO INSTALL CUSTOM DICTIONARIES ON YOUR KOBO EREADERSEE MORE ON THE-DIGITAL-READER.COM EIGHT TIPS FOR EXTENDING THE BATTERY LIFE ON YOUR KINDLE 7. Reduce the font size, and line spacing. This may sound silly but if you have more text on the screen, you will be able to go longer between page turn, and each time you turn the page you will get further into the ebook. 8. Turn it off! The last and most important way to expend the battery life of your ereader is to simply shut it

down.

HOW TO SEE THE EBOOKS YOU’VE BORROWED IN PRIME READING AND Another way to see what you’ve borrowed is to go to your Manage My Content and Devices page. There’s a dropdown menu in the upper left corner that includes options for Prime Reading and Kindle Unlimited. On this page you can see the ebooks and audiobooks you are currently borrowing as well as the titles you have returned. EBOOK RESALE RULED ILLEGAL IN THE EU (ACTUALLY, NO, IT eBook Resale Ruled Illegal in the EU (Actually, No, It Hasn’t) For the past seven years it has been legal to resell software in Europe under what is known as the “UsedSoft” decision, a court ruling that was reaffirmed in a similar case in 2016. Perhaps inspired by that ruling, a Dutch startup called Tom Kabinet launched a marketplace

in

HERE'S HOW KINDLE'S NEW READ/UNREAD SETTING WORKS Here’s How Kindle’s New Read/Unread Setting Works. When Amazon announced the new Kindle a few weeks back, one of the features mentioned in the footnotes was that the new device would have the option to filter your library for books that you either had or had not read. As you can probably guess, I was one of many who were excited to

see this

Q & A: REVIVING/RECYCLING OLD SONY READERS (AND OTHER The following plea was posted over on MobileRead Forums yesterday, and I’m reposting it here in the hopes that we can crowd-source the best solution and help more people.. Several years ago, I gave my aunt a Sony PRS-600 reader. I was talking with her the other day, and she said that she hasn’t been able to get books for it for some time. LCD SCREENS CANNOT BE READ OUTSIDE, AND OTHER NONSENSE LCD Screens Cannot be Read Outside, And Other Nonsense. 25 February, 2012. 8 June, 2017. e-Reading Hardware 20 Comments. A reader left a comment this morning on another post, and after reading it I was inspired to respond to it in a post. The crux of the comment was repetition of a couple pieces of marketing nonsense created by E-ink: THOUSANDS OF EBOOKS HAVE DISAPPEARED FROM AMAZON.COM I am about to give a few thousand authors a really terrible morning. Numerous authors are reporting. both on Facebook and in private discussions, that their ebooks have disappeared from Amazon.com. I have read first hand over a half-dozen reports KOBO IS ENDING SUPPORT FOR SONY READERS Kobo is a company built by booklovers for booklovers, and we will continue to expand on our reading experience, offering you cutting-edge eReaders, easy-to-use reading apps, and reading recommendations chosen just for you. After Kobo took over support for the Sony Readers, they released a firmware made the Sony Readers compatible with Kobo’s AMAZON WILL STOP ACCEPTING* MOBI FILES IN JUNE Amazon has announced that soon it will no longer accept* Mobi files in KDP. They just sent out an email informing authors and publishers that Epub and Doc are now the preferred formats: We listened to your feedback and are making it simpler to publish eBooks on Kindle. Starting June 28, 2021, we will no longer support files in MOBI, PRC

or AZK

HOW TO INSTALL CUSTOM DICTIONARIES ON YOUR KOBO EREADERSEE MORE ON THE-DIGITAL-READER.COM EIGHT TIPS FOR EXTENDING THE BATTERY LIFE ON YOUR KINDLE 7. Reduce the font size, and line spacing. This may sound silly but if you have more text on the screen, you will be able to go longer between page turn, and each time you turn the page you will get further into the ebook. 8. Turn it off! The last and most important way to expend the battery life of your ereader is to simply shut it

down.

HOW TO SEE THE EBOOKS YOU’VE BORROWED IN PRIME READING AND Another way to see what you’ve borrowed is to go to your Manage My Content and Devices page. There’s a dropdown menu in the upper left corner that includes options for Prime Reading and Kindle Unlimited. On this page you can see the ebooks and audiobooks you are currently borrowing as well as the titles you have returned. EBOOK RESALE RULED ILLEGAL IN THE EU (ACTUALLY, NO, IT eBook Resale Ruled Illegal in the EU (Actually, No, It Hasn’t) For the past seven years it has been legal to resell software in Europe under what is known as the “UsedSoft” decision, a court ruling that was reaffirmed in a similar case in 2016. Perhaps inspired by that ruling, a Dutch startup called Tom Kabinet launched a marketplace

in

HERE'S HOW KINDLE'S NEW READ/UNREAD SETTING WORKS Here’s How Kindle’s New Read/Unread Setting Works. When Amazon announced the new Kindle a few weeks back, one of the features mentioned in the footnotes was that the new device would have the option to filter your library for books that you either had or had not read. As you can probably guess, I was one of many who were excited to

see this

Q & A: REVIVING/RECYCLING OLD SONY READERS (AND OTHER The following plea was posted over on MobileRead Forums yesterday, and I’m reposting it here in the hopes that we can crowd-source the best solution and help more people.. Several years ago, I gave my aunt a Sony PRS-600 reader. I was talking with her the other day, and she said that she hasn’t been able to get books for it for some time. LCD SCREENS CANNOT BE READ OUTSIDE, AND OTHER NONSENSE LCD Screens Cannot be Read Outside, And Other Nonsense. 25 February, 2012. 8 June, 2017. e-Reading Hardware 20 Comments. A reader left a comment this morning on another post, and after reading it I was inspired to respond to it in a post. The crux of the comment was repetition of a couple pieces of marketing nonsense created by E-ink: THOUSANDS OF EBOOKS HAVE DISAPPEARED FROM AMAZON.COM I am about to give a few thousand authors a really terrible morning. Numerous authors are reporting. both on Facebook and in private discussions, that their ebooks have disappeared from Amazon.com. I have read first hand over a half-dozen reports KOBO IS ENDING SUPPORT FOR SONY READERS Kobo is a company built by booklovers for booklovers, and we will continue to expand on our reading experience, offering you cutting-edge eReaders, easy-to-use reading apps, and reading recommendations chosen just for you. After Kobo took over support for the Sony Readers, they released a firmware made the Sony Readers compatible with Kobo’s DO YOU WANT PAGE TURN BUTTONS ON YOUR EREADER? Even when you’re holding your ereader with your thumb or finger off the screen, it’s easy for your finger to slip onto the screen and cause inadvertent page turns. And now Amazon has recognized that fact, and brought page turns buttons back into vogue with the Kindle Oasis. This $290 ereader hearkens back to an early ereader, the Rocket eBook. AMAZON KINDLE OASIS NOW $175 (FOR PRIME SUBSCRIBERS) Amazon Kindle Oasis Now $175 (for Prime Subscribers) 13 October, 2020. 13 October, 2020. e-Reading Hardware, Fire, Kindle 3 Comments. Today is Prime Day, which is basically a version of Black Friday where Amazon offers deals exclusively to Amazon Prime subscribers. While some of Amazon’s “sales” are fairly run of the mill, today’s

deals

10 SITES FOR CREATING DIGITAL NEWSPAPERS Scribd – A very popular Web 2.0 site for creating online content and publishing. Fodey – A fun site to create a newspaper and then download to print out or put on a blog or site. Zinepal – A great way to bring the news to students by “clipping” online articles. This is a wonderful site for those making the move to ebook readers. DASUNG IS WORKING ON A 25" E-INK MONITOR Dasung is Working on a 25″ E-ink Monitor. Dasung is quietly famous for developing an E-ink monitor with a 13.3″ screen, and over the years they have released new models with incremental improvements. Now they are making a huge change, and I do mean huge. I was just reading over on Notebook Italia that Dasung has a new model in the works. CONNECTICUT IS INVESTIGATING AMAZON'S EBOOK BUSINESS Connecticut is Investigating Amazon’s eBook Business. When I reported last Thursday that a class-action suit had been filed against Amazon, accusing them of conspiring with publishers, I apparently had missed that the state of Conn. is pursuing its own investigation. The probe is one of many into the e-commerce platform’s business

practices.

HOW TO EMBED AN EBOOK ON A WEBSITE (2020 EDITION) I was browsing through my blog’s archives this morning when I came across an old post from 2014 on embedding ebooks in a web page. I was surprised to discover that I haven’t touched on this topic in the

past six years.

WHY THE INTERNET ARCHIVE'S THE OPEN LIBRARY IS NOT A REAL Why the Internet Archive’s The Open Library is Not a Real Library. One of the more common arguments made by defenders of the Internet Archive’s site, The Open Library, is that it is a library. They point out that it lends ebooks using expiring licenses and DRM tech quite similar to what public libraries use via Overdrive. Q & A: REVIVING/RECYCLING OLD SONY READERS (AND OTHER The following plea was posted over on MobileRead Forums yesterday, and I’m reposting it here in the hopes that we can crowd-source the best solution and help more people.. Several years ago, I gave my aunt a Sony PRS-600 reader. I was talking with her the other day, and she said that she hasn’t been able to get books for it for some time. HOW AN E-INK SCREEN IS MADE (VIDEO) How an E-ink Screen is Made (video) Aside from the Triton 2 color E-ink screen there wasn’t much to new see from E-ink this time around (and even that screen looks pretty much like the earlier Triton screen), so here’s something interesting to take the place of the non-news. The following video shows the CMO of E-ink, Sriram

Peruvemba, as

KOBO IS ENDING SUPPORT FOR SONY READERS Kobo is a company built by booklovers for booklovers, and we will continue to expand on our reading experience, offering you cutting-edge eReaders, easy-to-use reading apps, and reading recommendations chosen just for you. After Kobo took over support for the Sony Readers, they released a firmware made the Sony Readers compatible with Kobo’s AMAZON WILL STOP ACCEPTING* MOBI FILES IN JUNE Amazon has announced that soon it will no longer accept* Mobi files in KDP. They just sent out an email informing authors and publishers that Epub and Doc are now the preferred formats: We listened to your feedback and are making it simpler to publish eBooks on Kindle. Starting June 28, 2021, we will no longer support files in MOBI, PRC

or AZK

HOW TO INSTALL CUSTOM DICTIONARIES ON YOUR KOBO EREADERSEE MORE ON THE-DIGITAL-READER.COM EIGHT TIPS FOR EXTENDING THE BATTERY LIFE ON YOUR KINDLE 7. Reduce the font size, and line spacing. This may sound silly but if you have more text on the screen, you will be able to go longer between page turn, and each time you turn the page you will get further into the ebook. 8. Turn it off! The last and most important way to expend the battery life of your ereader is to simply shut it

down.

HOW TO SEE THE EBOOKS YOU’VE BORROWED IN PRIME READING AND Another way to see what you’ve borrowed is to go to your Manage My Content and Devices page. There’s a dropdown menu in the upper left corner that includes options for Prime Reading and Kindle Unlimited. On this page you can see the ebooks and audiobooks you are currently borrowing as well as the titles you have returned. EBOOK RESALE RULED ILLEGAL IN THE EU (ACTUALLY, NO, IT eBook Resale Ruled Illegal in the EU (Actually, No, It Hasn’t) For the past seven years it has been legal to resell software in Europe under what is known as the “UsedSoft” decision, a court ruling that was reaffirmed in a similar case in 2016. Perhaps inspired by that ruling, a Dutch startup called Tom Kabinet launched a marketplace

in

HERE'S HOW KINDLE'S NEW READ/UNREAD SETTING WORKS Here’s How Kindle’s New Read/Unread Setting Works. When Amazon announced the new Kindle a few weeks back, one of the features mentioned in the footnotes was that the new device would have the option to filter your library for books that you either had or had not read. As you can probably guess, I was one of many who were excited to

see this

Q & A: REVIVING/RECYCLING OLD SONY READERS (AND OTHER The following plea was posted over on MobileRead Forums yesterday, and I’m reposting it here in the hopes that we can crowd-source the best solution and help more people.. Several years ago, I gave my aunt a Sony PRS-600 reader. I was talking with her the other day, and she said that she hasn’t been able to get books for it for some time. LCD SCREENS CANNOT BE READ OUTSIDE, AND OTHER NONSENSE LCD Screens Cannot be Read Outside, And Other Nonsense. 25 February, 2012. 8 June, 2017. e-Reading Hardware 20 Comments. A reader left a comment this morning on another post, and after reading it I was inspired to respond to it in a post. The crux of the comment was repetition of a couple pieces of marketing nonsense created by E-ink: THOUSANDS OF EBOOKS HAVE DISAPPEARED FROM AMAZON.COM I am about to give a few thousand authors a really terrible morning. Numerous authors are reporting. both on Facebook and in private discussions, that their ebooks have disappeared from Amazon.com. I have read first hand over a half-dozen reports KOBO IS ENDING SUPPORT FOR SONY READERS Kobo is a company built by booklovers for booklovers, and we will continue to expand on our reading experience, offering you cutting-edge eReaders, easy-to-use reading apps, and reading recommendations chosen just for you. After Kobo took over support for the Sony Readers, they released a firmware made the Sony Readers compatible with Kobo’s AMAZON WILL STOP ACCEPTING* MOBI FILES IN JUNE Amazon has announced that soon it will no longer accept* Mobi files in KDP. They just sent out an email informing authors and publishers that Epub and Doc are now the preferred formats: We listened to your feedback and are making it simpler to publish eBooks on Kindle. Starting June 28, 2021, we will no longer support files in MOBI, PRC

or AZK

HOW TO INSTALL CUSTOM DICTIONARIES ON YOUR KOBO EREADERSEE MORE ON THE-DIGITAL-READER.COM EIGHT TIPS FOR EXTENDING THE BATTERY LIFE ON YOUR KINDLE 7. Reduce the font size, and line spacing. This may sound silly but if you have more text on the screen, you will be able to go longer between page turn, and each time you turn the page you will get further into the ebook. 8. Turn it off! The last and most important way to expend the battery life of your ereader is to simply shut it

down.

HOW TO SEE THE EBOOKS YOU’VE BORROWED IN PRIME READING AND Another way to see what you’ve borrowed is to go to your Manage My Content and Devices page. There’s a dropdown menu in the upper left corner that includes options for Prime Reading and Kindle Unlimited. On this page you can see the ebooks and audiobooks you are currently borrowing as well as the titles you have returned. EBOOK RESALE RULED ILLEGAL IN THE EU (ACTUALLY, NO, IT eBook Resale Ruled Illegal in the EU (Actually, No, It Hasn’t) For the past seven years it has been legal to resell software in Europe under what is known as the “UsedSoft” decision, a court ruling that was reaffirmed in a similar case in 2016. Perhaps inspired by that ruling, a Dutch startup called Tom Kabinet launched a marketplace

in

HERE'S HOW KINDLE'S NEW READ/UNREAD SETTING WORKS Here’s How Kindle’s New Read/Unread Setting Works. When Amazon announced the new Kindle a few weeks back, one of the features mentioned in the footnotes was that the new device would have the option to filter your library for books that you either had or had not read. As you can probably guess, I was one of many who were excited to

see this

Q & A: REVIVING/RECYCLING OLD SONY READERS (AND OTHER The following plea was posted over on MobileRead Forums yesterday, and I’m reposting it here in the hopes that we can crowd-source the best solution and help more people.. Several years ago, I gave my aunt a Sony PRS-600 reader. I was talking with her the other day, and she said that she hasn’t been able to get books for it for some time. LCD SCREENS CANNOT BE READ OUTSIDE, AND OTHER NONSENSE LCD Screens Cannot be Read Outside, And Other Nonsense. 25 February, 2012. 8 June, 2017. e-Reading Hardware 20 Comments. A reader left a comment this morning on another post, and after reading it I was inspired to respond to it in a post. The crux of the comment was repetition of a couple pieces of marketing nonsense created by E-ink: THOUSANDS OF EBOOKS HAVE DISAPPEARED FROM AMAZON.COM I am about to give a few thousand authors a really terrible morning. Numerous authors are reporting. both on Facebook and in private discussions, that their ebooks have disappeared from Amazon.com. I have read first hand over a half-dozen reports KOBO IS ENDING SUPPORT FOR SONY READERS Kobo is a company built by booklovers for booklovers, and we will continue to expand on our reading experience, offering you cutting-edge eReaders, easy-to-use reading apps, and reading recommendations chosen just for you. After Kobo took over support for the Sony Readers, they released a firmware made the Sony Readers compatible with Kobo’s DO YOU WANT PAGE TURN BUTTONS ON YOUR EREADER? Even when you’re holding your ereader with your thumb or finger off the screen, it’s easy for your finger to slip onto the screen and cause inadvertent page turns. And now Amazon has recognized that fact, and brought page turns buttons back into vogue with the Kindle Oasis. This $290 ereader hearkens back to an early ereader, the Rocket eBook. AMAZON KINDLE OASIS NOW $175 (FOR PRIME SUBSCRIBERS) Amazon Kindle Oasis Now $175 (for Prime Subscribers) 13 October, 2020. 13 October, 2020. e-Reading Hardware, Fire, Kindle 3 Comments. Today is Prime Day, which is basically a version of Black Friday where Amazon offers deals exclusively to Amazon Prime subscribers. While some of Amazon’s “sales” are fairly run of the mill, today’s

deals

10 SITES FOR CREATING DIGITAL NEWSPAPERS Scribd – A very popular Web 2.0 site for creating online content and publishing. Fodey – A fun site to create a newspaper and then download to print out or put on a blog or site. Zinepal – A great way to bring the news to students by “clipping” online articles. This is a wonderful site for those making the move to ebook readers. DASUNG IS WORKING ON A 25" E-INK MONITOR Dasung is Working on a 25″ E-ink Monitor. Dasung is quietly famous for developing an E-ink monitor with a 13.3″ screen, and over the years they have released new models with incremental improvements. Now they are making a huge change, and I do mean huge. I was just reading over on Notebook Italia that Dasung has a new model in the works. CONNECTICUT IS INVESTIGATING AMAZON'S EBOOK BUSINESS Connecticut is Investigating Amazon’s eBook Business. When I reported last Thursday that a class-action suit had been filed against Amazon, accusing them of conspiring with publishers, I apparently had missed that the state of Conn. is pursuing its own investigation. The probe is one of many into the e-commerce platform’s business

practices.

HOW TO EMBED AN EBOOK ON A WEBSITE (2020 EDITION) I was browsing through my blog’s archives this morning when I came across an old post from 2014 on embedding ebooks in a web page. I was surprised to discover that I haven’t touched on this topic in the

past six years.

WHY THE INTERNET ARCHIVE'S THE OPEN LIBRARY IS NOT A REAL Why the Internet Archive’s The Open Library is Not a Real Library. One of the more common arguments made by defenders of the Internet Archive’s site, The Open Library, is that it is a library. They point out that it lends ebooks using expiring licenses and DRM tech quite similar to what public libraries use via Overdrive. Q & A: REVIVING/RECYCLING OLD SONY READERS (AND OTHER The following plea was posted over on MobileRead Forums yesterday, and I’m reposting it here in the hopes that we can crowd-source the best solution and help more people.. Several years ago, I gave my aunt a Sony PRS-600 reader. I was talking with her the other day, and she said that she hasn’t been able to get books for it for some time. HOW AN E-INK SCREEN IS MADE (VIDEO) How an E-ink Screen is Made (video) Aside from the Triton 2 color E-ink screen there wasn’t much to new see from E-ink this time around (and even that screen looks pretty much like the earlier Triton screen), so here’s something interesting to take the place of the non-news. The following video shows the CMO of E-ink, Sriram

Peruvemba, as

KOBO IS ENDING SUPPORT FOR SONY READERS Kobo is a company built by booklovers for booklovers, and we will continue to expand on our reading experience, offering you cutting-edge eReaders, easy-to-use reading apps, and reading recommendations chosen just for you. After Kobo took over support for the Sony Readers, they released a firmware made the Sony Readers compatible with Kobo’s HOW TO INSTALL CUSTOM DICTIONARIES ON YOUR KOBO EREADERSEE MORE ON THE-DIGITAL-READER.COM HERE'S HOW KINDLE'S NEW READ/UNREAD SETTING WORKS Here’s How Kindle’s New Read/Unread Setting Works. When Amazon announced the new Kindle a few weeks back, one of the features mentioned in the footnotes was that the new device would have the option to filter your library for books that you either had or had not read. As you can probably guess, I was one of many who were excited to

see this

REVIEW: KOBO ARC 7

HOW TO SEE THE EBOOKS YOU’VE BORROWED IN PRIME READING AND Another way to see what you’ve borrowed is to go to your Manage My Content and Devices page. There’s a dropdown menu in the upper left corner that includes options for Prime Reading and Kindle Unlimited. On this page you can see the ebooks and audiobooks you are currently borrowing as well as the titles you have returned. Q & A: REVIVING/RECYCLING OLD SONY READERS (AND OTHER The following plea was posted over on MobileRead Forums yesterday, and I’m reposting it here in the hopes that we can crowd-source the best solution and help more people.. Several years ago, I gave my aunt a Sony PRS-600 reader. I was talking with her the other day, and she said that she hasn’t been able to get books for it for some time. KOBO IS ENDING SUPPORT FOR SONY READERS Kobo is a company built by booklovers for booklovers, and we will continue to expand on our reading experience, offering you cutting-edge eReaders, easy-to-use reading apps, and reading recommendations chosen just for you. After Kobo took over support for the Sony Readers, they released a firmware made the Sony Readers compatible with Kobo’s FICTFACT IS SHUTTING DOWN The problem is getting to know of new releases, not every author updates Amazon or Goodreads, and they don’t always alert you of new books. In the past luzme.com sometimes did it, but after being down for a lot of time, although they are up and running d ACX LAUNCHES IN CANADA, IRELAND ACX Launches in Canada, Ireland. 1 June, 2017. 1 June, 2017. Amazon, Audiobook, content creation Leave a comment. Launched in 2011, Audible Creation Exchange (ACX) is a marketplace where authors, publishers, narrators, and agents can connect and create audiobooks. For the past five years ACX has only ben open to residents of the US and UK, but HOW TO DOWNLOAD KOBO EBOOKS (INCLUDING THE ONES THEY WON'T I bought from Google Books until they stopped running the back-end for indie bookstores. (I thought that was a dick move.) I only recently found that I could download epubs to ADE from my Google Play library (desktop web), and did not have to rely on the brick and mortar store’s (closed) website for epub downloads. HOW DO I BORROW A BOOK FROM THE KINDLE OWNER'S LENDING Turn on your Fire tablet, then navigate to the Books menu, and select the option to visit the Kindle Store. The next step is to open the menu and select the option for KOLL, but the location of that menu varies from one Fire tablet to the next. On my mother’s really old Kindle Fire 8.9, the menu was on the front page of the Kindle Store

along

HOW TO INSTALL CUSTOM DICTIONARIES ON YOUR KOBO EREADERSEE MORE ON THE-DIGITAL-READER.COM HERE'S HOW KINDLE'S NEW READ/UNREAD SETTING WORKS Here’s How Kindle’s New Read/Unread Setting Works. When Amazon announced the new Kindle a few weeks back, one of the features mentioned in the footnotes was that the new device would have the option to filter your library for books that you either had or had not read. As you can probably guess, I was one of many who were excited to

see this

REVIEW: KOBO ARC 7

HOW TO SEE THE EBOOKS YOU’VE BORROWED IN PRIME READING AND Another way to see what you’ve borrowed is to go to your Manage My Content and Devices page. There’s a dropdown menu in the upper left corner that includes options for Prime Reading and Kindle Unlimited. On this page you can see the ebooks and audiobooks you are currently borrowing as well as the titles you have returned. Q & A: REVIVING/RECYCLING OLD SONY READERS (AND OTHER The following plea was posted over on MobileRead Forums yesterday, and I’m reposting it here in the hopes that we can crowd-source the best solution and help more people.. Several years ago, I gave my aunt a Sony PRS-600 reader. I was talking with her the other day, and she said that she hasn’t been able to get books for it for some time. KOBO IS ENDING SUPPORT FOR SONY READERS Kobo is a company built by booklovers for booklovers, and we will continue to expand on our reading experience, offering you cutting-edge eReaders, easy-to-use reading apps, and reading recommendations chosen just for you. After Kobo took over support for the Sony Readers, they released a firmware made the Sony Readers compatible with Kobo’s FICTFACT IS SHUTTING DOWN The problem is getting to know of new releases, not every author updates Amazon or Goodreads, and they don’t always alert you of new books. In the past luzme.com sometimes did it, but after being down for a lot of time, although they are up and running d ACX LAUNCHES IN CANADA, IRELAND ACX Launches in Canada, Ireland. 1 June, 2017. 1 June, 2017. Amazon, Audiobook, content creation Leave a comment. Launched in 2011, Audible Creation Exchange (ACX) is a marketplace where authors, publishers, narrators, and agents can connect and create audiobooks. For the past five years ACX has only ben open to residents of the US and UK, but HOW TO DOWNLOAD KOBO EBOOKS (INCLUDING THE ONES THEY WON'T I bought from Google Books until they stopped running the back-end for indie bookstores. (I thought that was a dick move.) I only recently found that I could download epubs to ADE from my Google Play library (desktop web), and did not have to rely on the brick and mortar store’s (closed) website for epub downloads. HOW DO I BORROW A BOOK FROM THE KINDLE OWNER'S LENDING Turn on your Fire tablet, then navigate to the Books menu, and select the option to visit the Kindle Store. The next step is to open the menu and select the option for KOLL, but the location of that menu varies from one Fire tablet to the next. On my mother’s really old Kindle Fire 8.9, the menu was on the front page of the Kindle Store

along

10 SITES FOR CREATING DIGITAL NEWSPAPERS Scribd – A very popular Web 2.0 site for creating online content and publishing. Fodey – A fun site to create a newspaper and then download to print out or put on a blog or site. Zinepal – A great way to bring the news to students by “clipping” online articles. This is a wonderful site for those making the move to ebook readers. SIX SITES WITH TRULY FREE EBOOKS Baen Free Library. The Baen Free Library isn’t nearly as big as it was back before Baen Books started distributing ebooks to the Kindle Store and elsewhere, but it’s still a good source of mil-SF. And if you have time, you might want to also check out Fifth Imperium. This site hosts copies of the CDs which Baen sometimes bundles into first HOW TO INSTALL CUSTOM DICTIONARIES ON YOUR KOBO EREADER How To. 1, Find a dictionary listed here which you would like to install. Download it to your computer. 2, Plug your Kobo ereader in to your computer over USB. Find and open the .kobo folder, and then find and open the dict folder. If you can’t see the .kobo AMAZON KINDLE OASIS NOW $175 (FOR PRIME SUBSCRIBERS) Amazon Kindle Oasis Now $175 (for Prime Subscribers) 13 October, 2020. 13 October, 2020. e-Reading Hardware, Fire, Kindle 3 Comments. Today is Prime Day, which is basically a version of Black Friday where Amazon offers deals exclusively to Amazon Prime subscribers. While some of Amazon’s “sales” are fairly run of the mill, today’s

deals

HOW TO SET UP ICLOUD FOR IBOOKS (AND WHY YOU SHOULDN'T It turns out it’s pretty simple to set up iCloud for iBooks (or iBooks for iCloud) and have it sync all of your ebook library to to the iCloud server. Update to iOS 9.3, Enable Cloud Drive (in Settings), and. Update and open iBooks. That first step is a killer, especially if your older iDevice can’t run iOS 9 (luckily you do

have other

HOW TO DELETE EBOOKS FROM YOUR KINDLE ACCOUNT ON AMAZON You can select multiple ebooks to be deleted at the same time, so do be careful. Selecting one or more ebooks will activate 3 orange buttons. Click the delete button. Then, in the confirmation menu, note the warning about permanent deletion, and then click the yes button. Boom, the ebooks are gone from your account. HOW TO DOWNLOAD KOBO EBOOKS (INCLUDING THE ONES THEY WON'T I bought from Google Books until they stopped running the back-end for indie bookstores. (I thought that was a dick move.) I only recently found that I could download epubs to ADE from my Google Play library (desktop web), and did not have to rely on the brick and mortar store’s (closed) website for epub downloads. ACX LAUNCHES IN CANADA, IRELAND ACX Launches in Canada, Ireland. 1 June, 2017. 1 June, 2017. Amazon, Audiobook, content creation Leave a comment. Launched in 2011, Audible Creation Exchange (ACX) is a marketplace where authors, publishers, narrators, and agents can connect and create audiobooks. For the past five years ACX has only ben open to residents of the US and UK, but HOW TO READ AT NIGHT ON YOUR TABLET, IPAD, KINDLE FIRE, OR One is called a night reading mode, and the other is using the software settings to apply a blue light filter to the screen. One common solution offered by many reading apps is to invert the colors so that the text is white on a black background. It’s called a night reading mode, and you can find it in most reading apps such as Kindle,

iBooks

LCD SCREENS CANNOT BE READ OUTSIDE, AND OTHER NONSENSE LCD Screens Cannot be Read Outside, And Other Nonsense. 25 February, 2012. 8 June, 2017. e-Reading Hardware 20 Comments. A reader left a comment this morning on another post, and after reading it I was inspired to respond to it in a post. The crux of the comment was repetition of a couple pieces of marketing nonsense created by E-ink: HOW TO INSTALL CUSTOM DICTIONARIES ON YOUR KOBO EREADERSEE MORE ON THE-DIGITAL-READER.COMCLARA HD KOBOKOBO CLARA PDFKOBO FILE FORMAT HERE'S HOW KINDLE'S NEW READ/UNREAD SETTING WORKS Here’s How Kindle’s New Read/Unread Setting Works. When Amazon announced the new Kindle a few weeks back, one of the features mentioned in the footnotes was that the new device would have the option to filter your library for books that you either had or had not read. As you can probably guess, I was one of many who were excited to

see this

HOW TO SEE THE EBOOKS YOU’VE BORROWED IN PRIME READING AND Another way to see what you’ve borrowed is to go to your Manage My Content and Devices page. There’s a dropdown menu in the upper left corner that includes options for Prime Reading and Kindle Unlimited. On this page you can see the ebooks and audiobooks you are currently borrowing as well as the titles you have returned.

REVIEW: KOBO ARC 7

Q & A: REVIVING/RECYCLING OLD SONY READERS (AND OTHERSONY E READER SOFTWARESONY EBOOK READER DOWNLOADSONY EBOOK READER SOFTWARE The following plea was posted over on MobileRead Forums yesterday, and I’m reposting it here in the hopes that we can crowd-source the best solution and help more people.. Several years ago, I gave my aunt a Sony PRS-600 reader. I was talking with her the other day, and she said that she hasn’t been able to get books for it for some time. KOBO IS ENDING SUPPORT FOR SONY READERS Kobo is a company built by booklovers for booklovers, and we will continue to expand on our reading experience, offering you cutting-edge eReaders, easy-to-use reading apps, and reading recommendations chosen just for you. After Kobo took over support for the Sony Readers, they released a firmware made the Sony Readers compatible with Kobo’s FICTFACT IS SHUTTING DOWN The problem is getting to know of new releases, not every author updates Amazon or Goodreads, and they don’t always alert you of new books. In the past luzme.com sometimes did it, but after being down for a lot of time, although they are up and running d ACX LAUNCHES IN CANADA, IRELAND ACX Launches in Canada, Ireland. 1 June, 2017. 1 June, 2017. Amazon, Audiobook, content creation Leave a comment. Launched in 2011, Audible Creation Exchange (ACX) is a marketplace where authors, publishers, narrators, and agents can connect and create audiobooks. For the past five years ACX has only ben open to residents of the US and UK, but HOW TO DOWNLOAD KOBO EBOOKS (INCLUDING THE ONES THEY WON'THOW TO DOWNLOAD KOBO BOOKSFREE EBOOKS FOR KOBOKOBO APP DOWNLOADKOBO LIBRARY DOWNLOADKOBO SETUP DOWNLOAD I bought from Google Books until they stopped running the back-end for indie bookstores. (I thought that was a dick move.) I only recently found that I could download epubs to ADE from my Google Play library (desktop web), and did not have to rely on the brick and mortar store’s (closed) website for epub downloads. HOW DO I BORROW A BOOK FROM THE KINDLE OWNER'S LENDING Turn on your Fire tablet, then navigate to the Books menu, and select the option to visit the Kindle Store. The next step is to open the menu and select the option for KOLL, but the location of that menu varies from one Fire tablet to the next. On my mother’s really old Kindle Fire 8.9, the menu was on the front page of the Kindle Store

along

HOW TO INSTALL CUSTOM DICTIONARIES ON YOUR KOBO EREADERSEE MORE ON THE-DIGITAL-READER.COMCLARA HD KOBOKOBO CLARA PDFKOBO FILE FORMAT HERE'S HOW KINDLE'S NEW READ/UNREAD SETTING WORKS Here’s How Kindle’s New Read/Unread Setting Works. When Amazon announced the new Kindle a few weeks back, one of the features mentioned in the footnotes was that the new device would have the option to filter your library for books that you either had or had not read. As you can probably guess, I was one of many who were excited to

see this

HOW TO SEE THE EBOOKS YOU’VE BORROWED IN PRIME READING AND Another way to see what you’ve borrowed is to go to your Manage My Content and Devices page. There’s a dropdown menu in the upper left corner that includes options for Prime Reading and Kindle Unlimited. On this page you can see the ebooks and audiobooks you are currently borrowing as well as the titles you have returned.

REVIEW: KOBO ARC 7

Q & A: REVIVING/RECYCLING OLD SONY READERS (AND OTHERSONY E READER SOFTWARESONY EBOOK READER DOWNLOADSONY EBOOK READER SOFTWARE The following plea was posted over on MobileRead Forums yesterday, and I’m reposting it here in the hopes that we can crowd-source the best solution and help more people.. Several years ago, I gave my aunt a Sony PRS-600 reader. I was talking with her the other day, and she said that she hasn’t been able to get books for it for some time. KOBO IS ENDING SUPPORT FOR SONY READERS Kobo is a company built by booklovers for booklovers, and we will continue to expand on our reading experience, offering you cutting-edge eReaders, easy-to-use reading apps, and reading recommendations chosen just for you. After Kobo took over support for the Sony Readers, they released a firmware made the Sony Readers compatible with Kobo’s FICTFACT IS SHUTTING DOWN The problem is getting to know of new releases, not every author updates Amazon or Goodreads, and they don’t always alert you of new books. In the past luzme.com sometimes did it, but after being down for a lot of time, although they are up and running d ACX LAUNCHES IN CANADA, IRELAND ACX Launches in Canada, Ireland. 1 June, 2017. 1 June, 2017. Amazon, Audiobook, content creation Leave a comment. Launched in 2011, Audible Creation Exchange (ACX) is a marketplace where authors, publishers, narrators, and agents can connect and create audiobooks. For the past five years ACX has only ben open to residents of the US and UK, but HOW TO DOWNLOAD KOBO EBOOKS (INCLUDING THE ONES THEY WON'THOW TO DOWNLOAD KOBO BOOKSFREE EBOOKS FOR KOBOKOBO APP DOWNLOADKOBO LIBRARY DOWNLOADKOBO SETUP DOWNLOAD I bought from Google Books until they stopped running the back-end for indie bookstores. (I thought that was a dick move.) I only recently found that I could download epubs to ADE from my Google Play library (desktop web), and did not have to rely on the brick and mortar store’s (closed) website for epub downloads. HOW DO I BORROW A BOOK FROM THE KINDLE OWNER'S LENDING Turn on your Fire tablet, then navigate to the Books menu, and select the option to visit the Kindle Store. The next step is to open the menu and select the option for KOLL, but the location of that menu varies from one Fire tablet to the next. On my mother’s really old Kindle Fire 8.9, the menu was on the front page of the Kindle Store

along

10 SITES FOR CREATING DIGITAL NEWSPAPERS Scribd – A very popular Web 2.0 site for creating online content and publishing. Fodey – A fun site to create a newspaper and then download to print out or put on a blog or site. Zinepal – A great way to bring the news to students by “clipping” online articles. This is a wonderful site for those making the move to ebook readers. SIX SITES WITH TRULY FREE EBOOKS Baen Free Library. The Baen Free Library isn’t nearly as big as it was back before Baen Books started distributing ebooks to the Kindle Store and elsewhere, but it’s still a good source of mil-SF. And if you have time, you might want to also check out Fifth Imperium. This site hosts copies of the CDs which Baen sometimes bundles into first HOW TO INSTALL CUSTOM DICTIONARIES ON YOUR KOBO EREADER How To. 1, Find a dictionary listed here which you would like to install. Download it to your computer. 2, Plug your Kobo ereader in to your computer over USB. Find and open the .kobo folder, and then find and open the dict folder. If you can’t see the .kobo AMAZON KINDLE OASIS NOW $175 (FOR PRIME SUBSCRIBERS) Amazon Kindle Oasis Now $175 (for Prime Subscribers) 13 October, 2020. 13 October, 2020. e-Reading Hardware, Fire, Kindle 3 Comments. Today is Prime Day, which is basically a version of Black Friday where Amazon offers deals exclusively to Amazon Prime subscribers. While some of Amazon’s “sales” are fairly run of the mill, today’s

deals

HOW TO SET UP ICLOUD FOR IBOOKS (AND WHY YOU SHOULDN'T It turns out it’s pretty simple to set up iCloud for iBooks (or iBooks for iCloud) and have it sync all of your ebook library to to the iCloud server. Update to iOS 9.3, Enable Cloud Drive (in Settings), and. Update and open iBooks. That first step is a killer, especially if your older iDevice can’t run iOS 9 (luckily you do

have other

HOW TO DELETE EBOOKS FROM YOUR KINDLE ACCOUNT ON AMAZON You can select multiple ebooks to be deleted at the same time, so do be careful. Selecting one or more ebooks will activate 3 orange buttons. Click the delete button. Then, in the confirmation menu, note the warning about permanent deletion, and then click the yes button. Boom, the ebooks are gone from your account. HOW TO DOWNLOAD KOBO EBOOKS (INCLUDING THE ONES THEY WON'T I bought from Google Books until they stopped running the back-end for indie bookstores. (I thought that was a dick move.) I only recently found that I could download epubs to ADE from my Google Play library (desktop web), and did not have to rely on the brick and mortar store’s (closed) website for epub downloads. ACX LAUNCHES IN CANADA, IRELAND ACX Launches in Canada, Ireland. 1 June, 2017. 1 June, 2017. Amazon, Audiobook, content creation Leave a comment. Launched in 2011, Audible Creation Exchange (ACX) is a marketplace where authors, publishers, narrators, and agents can connect and create audiobooks. For the past five years ACX has only ben open to residents of the US and UK, but HOW TO READ AT NIGHT ON YOUR TABLET, IPAD, KINDLE FIRE, OR One is called a night reading mode, and the other is using the software settings to apply a blue light filter to the screen. One common solution offered by many reading apps is to invert the colors so that the text is white on a black background. It’s called a night reading mode, and you can find it in most reading apps such as Kindle,

iBooks

LCD SCREENS CANNOT BE READ OUTSIDE, AND OTHER NONSENSE LCD Screens Cannot be Read Outside, And Other Nonsense. 25 February, 2012. 8 June, 2017. e-Reading Hardware 20 Comments. A reader left a comment this morning on another post, and after reading it I was inspired to respond to it in a post. The crux of the comment was repetition of a couple pieces of marketing nonsense created by E-ink:

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