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INSTANT BOOK CLUB AND BEYOND

Posted on February 12th, 2011 by Joy Schwabach

Rethink Books has a new app called “Social Books,” for sharing text from books with friends.

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LOANING KINDLE BOOKS ON AMAZON

Posted on December 30th, 2010 by Joy Schwabach

You can loan your Kindle books to friends, and they don’t even need a Kindle to read them.

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NEW KINDLE APP

Posted on December 7th, 2010 by Joy Schwabach

A new Kindle app means books can be read in a browser window and any website can become a bookstore.

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KINDLE BOOKS FOR NON-KINDLE OWNERS

Posted on November 19th, 2010 by Joy Schwabach

Now you can give a Kindle book to someone who doesn’t have a Kindle e-reader. Kindle books can be read on the iPad, iPod Touch, iPhone, Mac, PC, Blackberry and Android phone.There are over 750,000 digital books available at Amazon. We’re more likely to use the new gift service, however, for friends who do have Kindles. Before, if you wanted to give a fellow Kindle owner a digital book, you’d be stuck with sending a gift certificate. Now you can click on a Kindle edition and select “Give as a Gift.” Notifications of Kindle book gifts are delivered instantly by e-mail. For more information, go to www.amazon.com/givekindlebooks.

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EBOOK WARS

Posted on November 13th, 2010 by Joy Schwabach

In the next couple of weeks, Kindle owners will be able to lend ebooks to each other. The original owner won’t be able to access their ebook during the lending period, which lasts two weeks. Not all books will be lendable; it’s up to the publisher. That’s a feature that’s already available to owners of the Barnes and Noble ”Nook,” an eReader that just came out in a color version. At $249, it’s almost twice as much as a Kindle, and is not as easy on the eyes as the so-called e-ink display. But you do get color and can use it for email and surfing the web. See it at barnesandnoble.com/nookcolor. In other news, color “e-ink” ebook readers are […]

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THE LURE OF ALURATEK

Posted on November 2nd, 2010 by Joy Schwabach

We took the new Aluratek Libre eBook Reader on a recent trip to rural New York. It can easily fit in a jacket pocket or small purse, and comes with 100 free books already onboard. The key difference between the Aluratek and earlier readers like the Kindle and Nook, is that they can be used to download books by wireless. The Aluratek cannot connect to a wireless source. All books or lectures must be downloaded to its memory directly from a computer. This is a big difference, so to sweeten the pot, Aluratek comes with 100 free books already onboard. These include classics like “Dracula,” “Walden Pond,” “War and Peace” and so on. Joy is hooked on a Norwegian classic: […]

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