06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

If you've been absent and are keen to find out what MobileRead was up to this week, check out the links below:

E-Book General - News

• Bigme Hibreak Dual color eink + small oled
• New Windows Kindle app announced; Current Kindle app unavailable after 30/06/2026

12:12 PM by xyzzy_foo in E-Book General | News

When updating the Kindle for PC app to 2.9.1 (71006), I receive the following message:

04:43 AM by ab78727 in E-Book General | News

source: https://www.theverge.com/tech/911578...smartphone-lcd

"After teasing the “world’s first dual-screen color E Ink + LCD smartphone,” Bigme has announced its new HiBreak Dual. The Android 14 phone features a 6.13-inch color E Ink screen on the front and a 1.85-inch circular LCD on the back. It also supports a pressure-sensitive stylus, while April 16th preorders will start at $359."

These form factor devices look interesting to me but I haven't yet been compelled (thankfully) to part with my money for any of them. The vendor in particular, Bigme, has been tricky for me - their last collaboration with Pocketbook (Inkpad Eo, afaik) resulted in a somewhat compromised device in spite of Pocketbook's valiant efforts to make it work. But I admit I still stare at articles featuring these devices with attention - maybe I just need to find them used/refurbished .

06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

Here are the highlights from the past seven days of MobileRead:

E-Book General - News

• Amazon dropping support for more Kindles

01:25 AM by pdurrant in E-Book General | News

From May 20th 2026, Kindles released in 2012 and earlier will no longer be supported by Amazon.

So no registering, buying or downloading to such Kindles.

Affected devices include Kindle 1st and 2nd Generation, Kindle DX and DX Graphite, Kindle Keyboard, Kindle 4, Kindle Touch, Kindle 5, and Kindle Paperwhite 1st Generation.

Full email I received today in spoiler tags:

06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

Missed some of our big stories this week? Time to catch up:

E-Book General - News

• New Pocketbook 10.3" Notepad/Ereader: Inkpad One

02:16 AM by ab78727 in E-Book General | News

https://pocketbook.ch/en-ch/catalog/...-inkpad-one-ch .

* Big 10.3” E Ink screen – paper-like, glare-free, and eye-safe
* Resolution (Greyscale) 1404 ×1872
* PPI (Greyscale) 226
* Touchscreen Capacitive (multisensor)
* Active stylus for handwriting and essential tools for note-taking
* Button-free design with premium aluminum frame
* Audiobooks via Bluetooth and Text-to-Speech feature
* Open Ecosystem – buy or borrow books on different platforms
* 25 formats support, including Adobe and LCP DRM
* SMARTlight adjusts both brightness and color temperature

02:20 AM by ZodWallop in E-Book General | News

Last Call for Mass Market Paperbacks

Mass market paperbacks have long been on their death bed and now the plug has been pulled. I kinda wonder if that format was the most impacted by ebooks?

I do think in part it was killed by big publishers realizing they could sell trade paperbacks for $15-20 instead of the $6-7 of the mass market.